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The Four Fathers
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They said they were "the worst of the worst"
But they didn't know a thing about them
They said that they were captured on the battlefield
But most of them were bought for bounties

They took them to a place outside the law
In a bay that they stole from Cuba
They said they had no rights at all
As they tore up all their laws and treaties

You cannot claim to respect the law
And treat people this way
And after all the torture and abuse
It's time to make it go away

Close Guantánamo,
Close Guantánamo,
Close Guantánamo,
Close Guantánamo

When they didn't know what they wanted them to know
They introduced "enhanced interrogation"
They played them music as loud as it would go
In isolation and as sleep deprivation

And when they broke them and they made them lie
About themselves and their fellow prisoners
They had the nerve to hold their heads up high
And call this shame and this disgrace a success

You cannot claim to respect the law
And treat people this way
And after all the torture and abuse
It's time to make it go away

Close Guantánamo,
Close Guantánamo,
Close Guantánamo,
Close Guantánamo

Obama promised to close the prison for good
On his second day in office
But Republicans resisted his plans
And he lacked the political will to do it

So as the years drag on and on
And the men still held get older and iller
Endless imprisonment without charge or trial
Is what it always was – a form of torture

You cannot claim to respect the law
And treat people this way
And after all the torture and abuse
It's time to make it go away

Close Guantánamo,
Close Guantánamo,
Close Guantánamo,
Close Guantánamo,
Close Guantánamo,
Close Guantánamo..



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