Tell Us Then
Tell us then,
tell us you did what you had to do.
You did what you did because it had to be done.
Justify,
with long words and kind eyes,
tell it with compassion.
Tell it like it isn't.
Tell it like it's true.
Tell us then,
about your November Criminals,
Black Fridays, Bloody Sundays,
about the thousand wrongs you've righted,
the ranks of glorious fallen,
of injustices washed away with blood.
Tell us all your air-brushed histories.
We'll believe.
So tell it like you mean it,
tell it how it should have been,
tell us with your hearts
bleeding,
just like they were.
Tell us if you can.
Tell us then.
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