At The Ceasefire Protest | Song A Day #5460
Channel: Jonathan Mann
Date: 13/12/2023

A true story that happened yesterday at the ceasefire protest

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We were early to the protest
It was only just the four of us
It was cold  the others to arrive
That’s when a man started yelling at us
He started yelling and screaming at us

Well this happens at every protest
You don’t engage, that’s the guideline
But when I looked in his eyes
Well the pain that I saw
It looked just like mine
His pain it looked just like mine

So I walked straight up to him
He was pelting me with words
I said the shouting stop and we can talk
Of course this made the shouting worse
I only made the shouting worse

Now I really wanted to talk to him
To find some common ground in pain
But when I told him this
He got these balled up fists
And was a fire of unquenchable rage
All the pain just came out as rage

By this time more had arrived
More Jews for a ceasefire
We all started to shout
Ceasefire now
It was a shouting match with this guy
He walked away shouting up at the sky 

All around the world it is like this
Jews shouting at each other, oh no
The feelings we feel
Are equally real 
The shared trauma that lives in our bones

But then we lit the menorahs 
Recited prayers and songs were sung
We chanted and said
That never again
Means never again for anyone
Means never again for anyone

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