Composed on the occasion of the 12th annual protest against the Halifax War Conference. For audio, click below.
A woman's going to send the drones
So ready the covers of your Vogues The food bank lines are now miles long But a woman's the one who sends the bombs Liberal feminism can't be wrong
When a woman's the one who sends the bombs. Can't get workers PPE
But you go girl Nancy Pelosi
All hail the bipartisan war parties Now Trump is gone we all agree
George W. Bush has been redeemed The war criminals are on our team And there's a Black woman on my TV screen And when she bombs I'll yell yasss Queen We'll force your countries to be free And little Black girls can finally see Themselves in drones and F-16s
And this is MLK Jr's dream
Brought to you by Wall Street
Brought to you by the elites
We'll never ever give you peace
Fund military and police
But a woman could be commander in chief See what can happen when you believe? This is gender equality
So everybody take a knee
The resistance heroes hip hip hooray The FBI and CIA
The generals and NSA
So please enjoy your new air base We've all forgot Abu Ghraib
We all forgot Guantanamo Bay
And none of them will see the Hague The Patriot Act's so yesterday
Weære all in love with John McCain Make Lockheed Martin great again Centrist neo-liberals all the rage Kids still living in a cage
The war party is here to stay
And let's lock Julian Assange away. We can't let him expose the truth We're never bringing home the troops Obama's so cool shooting hoops
You'll all be crushed under the boot We're plotting out another coup
Billionaires we won't prosecute
We save that for moms of truant youth Those Timberlands were looking cute So let the oil companies pollute He'll put them in the cabinet
Add bankers to make up the set
We'll regulate the internet
Corporate news is all you'll get But a woman's going to send the jets Are Yemeni women happy yet?
This moment gives me all the feels A woman's making weapons deals
A woman's making refugees
A woman's going to rob and steal Last week we were environmentalists But now wars for oil are feminist And history will reminisce
How all the donors benefit
Orange man is out the door
Things can go back to how they were before Biden voted for the Iraq War
How dare you ask for any more
Your kids still super predators
And his kid's on strike number four But prison's just for you and yours And really the crime bill's all your fault This is the time for unity
Bow down to oil and energy
And let's be friends with GOP
And white suburban families
There's no more white supremacy
Black woman deliver us the vote
We'll still be kneeling on your throat But a woman's going to send the drones So volunteer to work those phones So we can bomb some woman's home And probably waterboard her son
They're back in fashion neo-cons So four more years of settlements War parties are in agreement
And let's hashtag Black excellence Kamala is Vice President.
The ladies join the gentlemen
In sword, famine, wild beast, pestilence The four horse persons of apocalypse These days we call that feminist Is this the dream of suffragists? And I heard her bombs never miss And don't forget to call her Ms. Madame, her honour, she or ma'am Get ready those detainment camps Muster the troops line up the ranks A woman's going to send the tanks And all of us will give her thanks Especially weapons manufacturers, banks And thanks to those suburban moms A woman's going to send the bombs I'm glad a woman is so strong
To send our countries all those bombs.
(TML Weekly Supplement, November 21, 2020 - No. 45)
