the refugees in flight from al-Assad
find doors are closed to them in the U.S.
because some think they bow to the wrong God
we show scant sympathy for their distress
the Jews of Europe met much the same fate
our nativists impugned them as a threat
recurrent episodes of baseless hate
we fail to learn but bleat "never forget!"
cold nation of religious refugees
who'd bar the gate when someone new wants in
who like our forebears, longing to breath free
too snug to recognize it's we that sin
the Germans lead, and we're coming in last
internalizing lessons from our past
find doors are closed to them in the U.S.
because some think they bow to the wrong God
we show scant sympathy for their distress
the Jews of Europe met much the same fate
our nativists impugned them as a threat
recurrent episodes of baseless hate
we fail to learn but bleat "never forget!"
cold nation of religious refugees
who'd bar the gate when someone new wants in
who like our forebears, longing to breath free
too snug to recognize it's we that sin
the Germans lead, and we're coming in last
internalizing lessons from our past
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