Thursday, July 30, 2026

"If you're ever confused..."

I have never cared much about Boy George. In fact, I doubt I would recognize any of his songs. But the lyrics of a recent one came to my attention. It's called "We will dance again," a title that became "a motto that symbolizes renewal and recovery following the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas that left 1,200 dead, about 364 of them concert-goers at the Supernova Music Festival, where the dancing was interrupted by rockets and then murder."

You say genocide, I say war
When you're attacked, that's what the army's for
Does it get ugly? You bet it does
When I know you wanna kill
Every last one of us
Every last one of us
Every last one of us
You never mention October 7
Young girls raped against trees
Murdered brutally
For the crime of dancing
You condemn the Jews, with selective memory
Musicians holding flags, mouthing like sheep
Propaganda fuelled by the Internet feels so weak

[Chorus] But trust me, we will dancе again
We will dance again
We will dancе again
And there will be no war
But if you're ever confused
I stand with the Jews
I don't feel brave, I just need to behave like a human
But trust me, we will dance again
We will dance again
We will dance again
And there will be no war
But if you're ever confused
I stand with the Jews
I don't feel brave, I just need to behave like a human.

"Sometimes It Takes a Boy (George)," Jonathan S. Greenwald, July 30, 2026.

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