Butterfly (for Julian A.)

Today, 20-Feb-2024, Julian Assange is once again being put through the process-as-punishment legal torture prepared for him by the US and UK governments. 14 years of persecution and still it goes on.

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Butterfly, spread your wings and fly far away from here
Butterfly, one they'd crucify, you're their greatest fear

A loaded deck is more powerful than a loaded gun
No strength to fight and you're in their sights
Boy you'd better run, far from here

Butterfly, there's a cruelty that they can't conceal
They laugh and sneer as they take you and break you on a wheel

Because you're dangerous, and you're just like us, and that's what scares them so
And there's a special ring reserved in hell, that's where they're gonna go

When you speak truth to power they blacken your name
When you've won the argument they blacken your name
Point out the obvious they blacken your name
Open a window they blacken your name

Oh butterfly, have you tears to cry? Can you e'er be free?
Oh butterfly, who could justify this inhumanity?

Ain't it funny how the just expression of the law
Looks exactly like protection of the powerful?

When you speak truth to power they blacken your name
When you've won the argument they blacken your name
Point out the obvious they blacken your name
Open a window they blacken your name

Collateral Murder, they blacken your name
Confined in Belmarsh, they blacken your name
Solitary confinement, they blacken your name
“Shit-smearing rapist”, they blackened your name