shaker aamer

Pj Harvey

No water for three days
I cannot sleep, or stay awake

Four months hunger strike
Am I dead, or am I alive?

With metal tubes we are force fed
I honestly wish I was dead

Strapped in the restraining chair
Shaker aamer, your friend

In camp 5, eleven years
Never charged. Six years cleared

They took away my one note pad
And then refused to give it back

I can t think straight, I write, then stop
Your friend shaker aamer. Lost

The guards just do what they re told
The doctors just do what they re told

Like an old car I m rusting away
Your friend, shaker. Guantanamo bay

Don t forget