EIDA - July

Artwork by Shahryar
Video by Bj

And I found myself collapsing
Terrified beyond a doubt
Mir Zafars are masquerading
Headlines they never shout

Outside, a warfield
Sirens and smokescreen
Bloodstains on backpacks
Suddenly the sky attacks

Sound grenades, tear shells
Make the rooftop a living hell
TV screens like garbage bins
And yet somehow you cannot win

Kill the kids, blind their friends
Pretend like something else happened
But tell me how you kill the will?
Tell me how do you kill the will?

See the wave, it’s turning red now
Roll call the dead, we’re all of them now

Concrete trembling
Slogans unsettling
One street, one beat
One call, one creed

The ghosts from nameless families
Forever may they keep haunting me
Malnourished faces meant to die
By gunshot or by poverty

Kill the kids, blind their friends
Pretend like something else happened
But tell me how you kill the will?
Tell me how do you kill the will?

Every single minute wasted in bureaucratic lines
Every single coin passed over to clear my own files
Every threat, every plea dismissed
Every propaganda press release
Every live round, every swollen eye
And every other mass outcry
Everything will testify
Remember, remember
The massacre of July

From the hills to the sea
We remember everything
Call your guns and your kingpins
We multiply in the coming spring

Kill the kids, blind their friends
Pretend like something else happened
But tell me how you kill the will?
Tell me how do you kill the will

I am a নাগরিক
Shut your mouth, keep serving me
Get more hands and wipe them clean
We multiply in the coming spring