Aus-Rotten - Two Years and One Song Later lyrics

A day in the life of a never ending war

Tuesday, May 18th is a day in history
It's a day that has been contantly
Repeated for years and years
A day no more or less
Significant than any other day
It's only a blur in the
Endless carnage and suffering
That possesses the stinging similarity
To the Nazi holocaust
These atrocities, however
Are happening right now
It's just another day of
Ethnic cleansing in Bosnia
Ethnic cleansing is the
Serbian invented euphemism
Describing the atrocities being
Committed against
Muslim and Croatian civilians
The war that began in
April 1992 was predictable
What was not so predictable was
The cold-blooded murder of civilians
Nor was the massive deportation
In over crowded
Cattle cars of trains to concentration camps
Upon arrival at these camps prisoners
Are sheared like sheep
Denied medical attention
Food and shelter many die in
These camps every day
The grass has all been ripped and eaten
Since it's the only source of food
Or something good to eat
When it rains prisoners
Find themselves standing
Up to their knees in mud
Only a handful of these prisoners bore
Arms against the Serbian soldiers

The Serbian government has given orders
That special treatment be shown
To healthy women between seventeen and
Forty years of age
Tens of thousands of these young girls
And women receiving this special treatment
Were systematically raped with
The sickening plan
Of impregnating them with Serbian seeds
And making them bare a stranger
Which are then to be taken away

The world strongly stated "Never Again"
After World War I I
This may be the reason why most of the world
Seems to be ignoring this modern day genocide
Tuesday May 18th
1993 ws the date on the newspaper
That held the gruesome picture of
A woman holding a skull that once
Belonged to a loved one
This single picture outraged me and opened
My eyes to the ethnic cleansing
I had previously overlooked as
Just another war?
It was a slap in the face that
I still feel to this day
A constant reminder of the pain caused
By human ignorance and greed

Almost two years and one song
Later and nothing's changed
Except for the death toll
How much longer will we trust these??
How much longer will the
People sit silently by as history repeats?