Colin Cyr - Dr. Paul Lyrics

There's a school on the hill of my hometown
Ten thousand students gather there
And they've paid dearly for it
Classrooms built on stolen land
This we acknowledge and say
It won't happen again
Professors teach about colonial expansion
About genocide and recognizing systems of oppression
The mission statement reads
We're teaching problem solvers
Who will learn to build a just world
From the classes that we offer
But when the bombs start dropping
Over distant land
They'll keep the money flowing
Out of our bloody hands
And Dr. Paul will tell us
Don't try to pick a side
It's too complex an issue
It sure don't pay as nice
Well, Dr. Paul
There's kids dead in the street there
Could you explain to them
How investing in their killers
Don't equate to taking sides
Well, Dr. Paul
There's no schools left in Gaza
Good thing we're here to carry on
Remaining neutral for the good of humankind
Around the world voices plead
To stop the bombs
To stop supplying genocide
And some pay dearly for it
Dr. Paul tells us not to get involved
Keep down your voices
And just stick to academics
Well, don't apply the message
When your profs
They teach you about colonial expansion
About genocide and recognizing
Systems of oppression
The mission statement reads
We're teaching problem solvers
Who will learn to build a just world
From the classes that we offer
But when the students cry out
Keep our funds out of war
He'll try and stomp them all out
The ones he can't ignore
And when we don't stop coming
He'll say we're misinformed
He'll rail against discomfort
As if comfort's what we pay him for
Oh, Dr. Paul
Your hollow resolutions
Lack even the faintest moral ground
As you play saviour
To the civil and polite
Well, Paul
In fact you represent
The death of academics
You are the rot
That spreads through corporatized
And power-seeking minds
Well, Dr. Paul
There's kids dead in the street there
Could you explain to them
How investing in their killers
Is so civil and so polite
Oh, Dr. Paul
There's no schools left in Gaza
How dare you tell us it's your right
To sit in silence
As our fellow students die
Down with Dr. Paul
Down with Dr. Paul
Down with Dr. Paul
We do not need you power-hungry
Corporate-minded administrators
We don't want your fetishized, pacified version
Of a bloody status quo
We do not wish to invest in your hedge fund
Disguised as an academic institution
We don't wanna see kids burning alive in the news
And recognize our tuition payments in the flames