Roger Waters - Sumud (New Song, first version, 2025)

Last week, during a video posted on YouTube for the War Abolisher Awards, Roger Waters shared a new song titled "Sumud."


SUMUD

There is a word in Arabic

Sumud

It means

Steadfast

Perseverance

Particularly

In Resistance

To the occupation of your homeland

I just want that thing

When voices join in harmony

And in that fleeting moment

When meaning coalesces there

All dark dissolving

Clouds the alleyways no more

And fresh bread scent of home

Pervades the air

No sandal soles

In dust of broken homes

Peep bloody from the garment hem

And all the big parades

And shock and awe

And swagger on the carrier deck

And medals jangle helpless

In the face of what is fair

Give me an Oh Yeaaaaaaaaaah!

Yeah! Give me an Oh Yeaaaaaah!

Oh yeah Oh , Oh yeah

Give me an Oh Yeaaaaaaaah

Join us, Join us in harmony



I remember you well

Where you stood where you fell

You were brutally slain

But your spirits remain.

Rachel Corrie and

Shireen Abu Akleh

Marielle Franco

Sophie Scholl

Ann Frank

Iman Al Hams

Many sisters from many lands

Oh my sisters,

Help me to open their eyes

From up in the Penthouse

We must all look like ants to them

Wake up motherfuckers

We are women and men

Well up unashamed

My bleeding heart

Give me an Oh Yeaaaaaaah.

Give me an Oh Yeaaaaaah.

Oh Yeah. Oh Yeah, Oh Yeah,

Give me an Oh Yeaaaaah!

Join us, join us,

Join us in harmony.

–

And then across the great divide

Come men and women unafraid

To dash in loss

Their bracelets at the wall

When voices join in harmony

And we turn the final page

When man evolves beyond the crass

And reason comes of age.

And Dogma

And Witchcraft

And Cant

And Propaganda

And Palantir

And Lockheed

And Grumman

And Chevron

And Exxon

And Pffizer

And the Oligarchs and Misers say

We’re sorry that we done it Mummy

We only done it for

The fucking money

Oh yeaaaaaah, just for the money

Oh yeaaaaaah, just for the cash.

When voices join in harmony

We will make a joyful sound

We will follow

Our own moral compass

We won’t let their sleight of hand trump us

We will find ten thousand new voices

In every crowd

And when all those new voices

Join us in harmony

Standing shoulder to shoulder

From the river to the sea

People from every nation

Will hear that joyful sound

Ordinary people

Just standing their ground

And together

These ordinary people,

Together

They will turn this ship around.

Oh Yeah

Together

Oh yeah

Together we will turn this ship around.

(Roger Waters copyright 2025)

Here the second version :    • Roger Waters - Sumud (New Song, second ver...