All of my life I've heard the stories   How many thousands of times   How the kingdom was lost and we had to pay penance   For our forefathers' crimes   How we'd seen such oppression, wandered the world   While empires rose and fell   But one day we'd have peace   When we returned to Israel      And we died in the pogroms, we died in the Crusades   We died for some prince to save face   Killed by the Russians, killed by the Catholics   Killed for the Aryan race   But none of that changes what happened before   Or the unspeakable things that you do   'Cause King David was a butcher   And so are you      'Cause I've been to your jails, I've spoken with ghosts   I've heard the unending calls   And I've seen your machine guns slaughtering children   Behind your high ghetto walls   And just like your friend Mr. De Klerk   One day you will admit it is true   That King David was a butcher   And so are you      And you can hide behind your money, you can hide behind history   You can hide behind Capitol Hill   And all the king's riches and all the king's rabbis   And the king's orders to kill   And you can say I'm a fascist of I think like an Arab   You can call me a self-loathing Jew   But King David was a butcher   And so are you      You can shake your head slowly, you can walk out in anger   You can say that you don't understand   Or in righteous rage you can get in your jet fighter   And conquer some more holy land   But I have to say this because I care for our future   Because I know the things that you do   Because King David was a butcher    And so are you