Bang-Bang

Bang-bang

Banging at the door

In the dead of night

The dark illuminates your fright

As I'm pulled from your bed

Dragged across the floor.

Bang-bang

Banging inside your head

Festering wounds inflicted by structural violence

But the pain illuminates your silence

As you escape into ignorance

Safe in the sewer with the rest of the dead.

Bang-bang

Bullets rip through flesh

Blood stains the road

Bomb blast craters disfigure the landscape

As we turn our attention elsewhere

Crippled and blinded by fear.

Bang-bang

Blatant lies disguise the face of decay

That feeds on complacency

And breeds on greed and callousness

As we bend down and pray

Broken beings lapping up all the shit that we're fed.

Bang-bang

Buildings burn and towers crumble

While our kin continue to die everyday

And not just from guns but from a lack of water

As progress wears another mask

Bowed and bent we play our complicit parts.

Bang-bang

Ons liewe in dread

Gebuig en gedruig tot die mens verdwyn

En al wat oorbly is net vlees en been

As our faces contort around capped smiles

Grimacing as we look but fail to conceive.

Bang-bang

We go through life like phantom players

Trying so hard to ignore the facts:

We need to change these systems that keep us at war

As we hustle and strive just to survive

Brow beaten and bowed, chattering too loud.

Bang-bang

There's no more excuses

All of the rhetoric and skirting are useless

Sharpen the pencils and brushes and chords

As we try to dissect and express what we see

Within this tragedy, of impotent revolution.