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kevin dort - i wonder who i would be كلمات أغنية

if the military’s loyalty were to lie with the president
rather than the constitution
or its precedents
if us immigrations and customs enforcement
kidnapped and broke into houses
without warrants
if mothers and fathers were being dragged from their homes
and branded as criminals
their children left alone
if migrants were denied due process and human dignity

i wonder
i wonder
i wonder, who i would be

if it was 1947
and senator mccarthy spearhead a campaign
against the communist party
but thousands of civilians were detained without warrants
based on general suspicion
would i think it was abhorrent?
or if i lived in salem in 1692
and the clergymen hung the wrongly accused
would i yell “witch!” with the rest of the colony?

i wonder
i wonder
i wonder, who i would be
had i been alive
in the second world war
when there was fear of espionage on american shores
and franklin delano roosevelt
the president
incarcerated anyone of j_panese descent
and sent these american residents to internment camps
searched their homes, seizing what they considered contraband
froze their assets, branded them detainees

i wonder
i wonder
i wonder, who i would be

if i lived in birmingham in 1963
and there were protests against segregation policies
would i raise my voice? would i rise to my feet?
or would i cross to the other side of the street?
or if i was in washington that very same year
and there was a national march, would i appear?
or would i think “oh well, that doesn’t affect me.”?

i wonder
i wonder
i wonder, who i would be
if i was at stonewall on june 28th
would i resist? would i enlist? would i run the other way?
if police raided bars because two women were dancing
or beat two men for loving, for romancing
if i saw a trans woman being arrested
simply because she was wearing a dress
would i say something? would i pretend i didn’t see?

i wonder
i wonder
i wonder, who i would be

if it was 1830
and andrew jackson had a one_track mind
toward western expansion
and forced sixty thousand indigenous americans
to leave home and face an unfathomable despair
when four thousand lost their lives
on the trail of tears
in the name of colonizing western frontiers
i wonder if jackson lost a single night of sleep

and i wonder
i wonder
i wonder, who i would be
if there were rallies being held
and everyone had signs that said “mass deportation”
if these people subscribed to the idea of “god’s country”
that would be made great again
i’d guess i’d say i hadn’t realized
god was an american
but i remember something about loving your neighbor
and there was something else in those biblical papers
something about everyone being equal in the eyes of thee

now i wonder
i wonder
i wonder, who i would be

i wonder
i wonder
i wonder, who i would be

i wonder, who i would be

- kevin dort

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