Roger Waters - Sumud (New Song, 2025)

SUMUD There is a word in Arabic Sumud It means Steadfast Perseverance Particularly In Resistance To the occupation of your homeland I just want that thing When voices join in harmony And in that fleeting moment When meaning coalesces there All dark dissolving Clouds the alleyways no more And fresh bread scent of home Pervades the air No sandal soles In dust of broken homes Peep bloody from the garment hem And all the big parades And shock and awe And swagger on the carrier deck And medals jangle helpless In the face of what is fair Give me an Oh Yeaaaaaaaaaah! Yeah! Give me an Oh Yeaaaaaah! Oh yeah Oh , Oh yeah Give me an Oh Yeaaaaaaaah Join us, Join us in harmony I remember you well Where you stood where you fell You were brutally slain But your spirits remain. Rachel Corrie and Shireen Abu Akleh Marielle Franco Sophie Scholl Ann Frank Iman Al Hams Many sisters from many lands Oh my sisters, Help me to open their eyes From up in the Penthouse We must all look like ants to them Wake up motherfuckers We are women and men Well up unashamed My bleeding heart Give me an Oh Yeaaaaaaah. Give me an Oh Yeaaaaaah. Oh Yeah. Oh Yeah, Oh Yeah, Give me an Oh Yeaaaaah! Join us, join us, Join us in harmony. – And then across the great divide Come men and women unafraid To dash in loss Their bracelets at the wall When voices join in harmony And we turn the final page When man evolves beyond the crass And reason comes of age. And Dogma And Witchcraft And Cant And Propaganda And Palantir And Lockheed And Grumman And Chevron And Exxon And Pffizer And the Oligarchs and Misers say We’re sorry that we done it Mummy We only done it for The fucking money Oh yeaaaaaah, just for the money Oh yeaaaaaah, just for the cash. When voices join in harmony We will make a joyful sound We will follow Our own moral compass We won’t let their sleight of hand trump us We will find ten thousand new voices In every crowd And when all those new voices Join us in harmony Standing shoulder to shoulder From the river to the sea People from every nation Will hear that joyful sound Ordinary people Just standing their ground And together These ordinary people, Together They will turn this ship around. Oh Yeah Together Oh yeah Together we will turn this ship around. (Roger Waters copyright 2025)