Use your euphemisms but the reality remains
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This is still genocide by any other name
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Too much agony and bloodshed for the perpetrators to hide
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Too much apathy and bloodlust for us to justify
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Too much western world indifference to keep this savagery at bay
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Too much need for intervention to just look the other way
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For the refugees of Darfur
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The end result looks bleak
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Our never ending evasion
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Their end without relief
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We sit and debate while the militias bathe in blood
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The first world has forsaken all of those who died
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Brutalized by bigotry, abandoned by the world
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We have turned a blind eye to genocide
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Not enough tolerance, attention or humanitarian aid
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Not enough of an outcry to stop the bludgeoning with the blade
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Not enough compassion to combat all of this despair
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Not enough resources to be plundered for the western world to care
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Atrocities committed
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The machete swings again
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As our population thinks
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Their population thins
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We sit and debate while the militias bathe in blood
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The first world has forsaken all of those who died
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Brutalized by bigotry, abandoned by the world
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We have turned a blind eye to genocide
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They plead
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We look the other way
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They bleed
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We look the other way
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They die and we just look the other way
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Can¡¯t we utilize more than empty rhetoric? can¡¯t we do more than pretend?
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Can¡¯t we show some real conviction when we say ¡°never again¡±?
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Can¡¯t we see where this is heading? Can¡¯t we see what is at stake?
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Can¡¯t we ever learn our lesson and not repeat our past mistakes?
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They pay with their lives
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We pay them no attention
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We bury our heads in the sand
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As they bury their children
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We sit and debate while the militias bathe in blood
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The first world has forsaken all of those who died
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Brutalized by bigotry, abandoned by the world
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We have turned a blind eye to genocide
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Turning A Blind Eye
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Behind Enemy Lines |