ACHTUNG UBER SOLDAT

ACHTUNG UBER SOLDAT

SONG OF THE PEOPLE

[THIS SONG WAS WRITTEN TO UNVEIL THE TRUE PICTURE OF JUNTA GOVERNMENT IN PAKISTAN]

Each morning after Sunblast
Feel the rhythm of junta dogmatism
I waited by the headquarters
In time for benediction

Living a law just short of delusion
When we fall in love there's confusion
This must be the place I waited years to leave

To our voices nobody's listening

To our tears nobody’s seeing
We shiver in the rain by the touchline

We are left spell bound by the axis of junta

Searching for a ride to graveyard

Then a coach ride to the station

"My lord, the carriage awaiteth!"

Living a law just short of delusion
When we fall in love there's confusion
This must be the place I waited years to leave
This must be the place I waited years to leave
And how
How long?

I am seeing the things to see them never again

The swarm of loaded men squeezing the den of the local men

Killing the woodland men, on the orders of alien men

The fear of hetman ◌

I don’t want to belong

I am listening to the words I thought I would never hear again

A litany of saints and other men in uniform

Unfurling every nook of their beard to keep the uniform in place

They are, they are the slaves of a man

Kneeling on the red parquet

Whatever has gone wrong?

The fear and feeling hopelessness
I don't want to belong

With a peep of nostalgia

I can see a general, waiting outside “Senorita Home” ◌

Giving an outstanding example to the next generation

I don’t want to belong

With a system of district rule

Giving every devil a chance to rule

Devolution & demolition giving the right

For every street dog to rule

I dreamt I was back in uniform
And a candidate for examination
History, someone had blundered

Sordid and squalid rule must remain plundered
And a voice rapped "knuckle under!"
Living a law just short of delusion
When we fall in love there's confusion
This must be the place I waited years to leave
This must be the place I waited years to leave
And how
And how
How long?

◌ COURTESY:

1) HAMOOD-UR-REHMAN COMMISION REPORT ON THE FALL OF DECCA

2) MILITARY. ETI: POLISH

KHURRAM PERVAIZ

October 2007