Behind These Prison Walls
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Behind These Prison Walls
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Published on Nov 15, 2019
Behind These Prison Walls
by David Rovics
For Julian Assange
#FreeAssange #Unity4J
Lyrics:
Behind these prison walls
There's a man who's won awards
For the work that he has done
And all that it affords
Such as the knowledge of the horrors
Committed in our name
They can't stop the message
So the messenger gets blamed
Behind these prison walls
In solitary confinement
In a land of rolling hills and royalty
And other such refinement
Is someone who is a hero
To whistleblowers everywhere
Who helped them tell the world
Of the crimes of Tony Blair
Behind these prison walls
You will find a mortal man
The reason why we know what happened
In Afghanistan
When the soldiers of the empire
Who's sun set long before
Were torturing civilians
In their terror war
Behind these prison walls
Is a part of WikiLeaks
An eloquent orator
But you won't hear him speak
Locked away in silence
One who knows too well
How those in power act
When there's another war to sell
Behind these prison walls
Is one who stands accused
Of exactly what offences
The US has refused
To say precisely which
Or to try to clear the mist
Or to explain how he's not the same
As the other journalists
Behind these prison walls
Is a person they deprive
Of most of the things in life
That keep us all alive
The person being tortured
As we stand here now
For revealing the war crimes
Why when where how
Behind these prison walls
Our very right to be informed
Of what the hell is going on
Is the teacup in this storm
With knowledge there is power
So the solution by the crown
A 24 hour a day
Indefinite lockdown
Behind these prison walls...