The Time to Act - David Rovics

When it’s 2019, but it feels like 1933

When your eyes are open, when you know the history

When your parents lived through things that looked so much like this

All the indications, impossible to miss

When you’ve sought for your whole life to make the Earth a better place

And you once again see the rising of the Master Race

When you know that they are coming, when they announced it in advance

When you know for many people, this will be their last chance

Then you may ask the question, what can one person do

When the time to act is now, and now it’s up to you

When it’s 2019, but it feels like 1933

When indefinite detention is the new reality

For so many children to whom you did not give birth

When you see they’re just as precious

As every other child on Earth

When they’re opening the camps, not used since the war

Where families were imprisoned decades before

When Kristallnacht is coming, they announced it on the news

When the writing’s on the wall, when you can see the fuse

When it’s 2019, but it feels like 1933

When you know rallies are not helping and silence is complicity

When you know where the kids are kept, locked inside their cells

When you see approaching the future this foretells

When they’re coming for your neighbors, when they’ve even said what day

They plan to put them all in buses and take them away

When you know where they keep the buses, you’ve been to the parking lot

Perhaps a whole lot of petrol bombs is the best move you got