12-26 - Kimya Dawson

One of her babies is rotting in the sun and the other one was found drowned in

the ocean

Her mom and dad are in their van crushed and bloated and her husband was thrown

from his fishing boat

So please give me a break from all your complaining about who was mean to you

and how your stepdad is a pain

— I care, I swear, but I just can’t take it, not today

All I can think about are tsunamis and earthquakes

Everything she’s ever known is gone, gone, gone,

Everyone she’s ever loved is gone, gone, gone,

The only reason she’s alive is she grabbed a palm frond, and held on

And held on

You can call me crazy but it seems to me we could have sent more than we spend

in one day killing iraqis

To help the hundreds of thousands who are injured and diseased and hungry and

homeless and without families

I’m appalled by our government’s initial reaction and the fact that they asked

for a verbal retraction

From the folks who called them stingy they’re just covering their assets

Well they think they’re greedy god for wiping out the lower class

Everything she’s ever known is gone, gone, gone

Everyone she’s ever loved is gone, gone, gone

The only reason she’s alive is she grabbed a palm frond, and held on

And held on

One of her babies is rotting in the sun and the other one was found drowned in

the ocean

Her mom and dad are in their van they’re crushed and bloated and her husband

was thrown from his fishing boat

We’d have 12/26 tattoed across our foreheads if something this atrocious

happened on our coast instead

Well a tragedy’s a tragedy no matter where it happens close your eyes really

tight and imagine

That everything you’ve ever known is gone and everything you’ve ever loved is

gone

And the only reason you’re alive is you were lucky and you were strong enough

to hold on

While you watched your family die

While you watched your family die

While you watched your family die

While you watched your family die

Everything she’s ever known is gone, gone, gone

Everyone she’s ever loved is gone, gone, gone

The only reason she’s alive is she grabbed a palm frond, and held on

And held on