What’s in a name you ask my friend
It seems that there is plenty
What you call the things you do
Affects how people see them

Now I don’t need to name the place
Where people murdered most heinous
But we sit back and just ignore
Because it was called ‘ethnic cleansing’

In the past this mistake they made
Let’s take the Ku Klux Klan
Maybe should have called it ‘racial cleansing’
Instead of white supremacy

We can go back further still
To the time of the Holy Wars
How does ‘religious unification’ sound
Much better than fighting a war

So you can see my friend if names we change
We can sit back and sagely nod our heads
This sound fine, nothing here is wrong
Must be right because no-one calls it murder

We shall have no more wars
We will have ‘national unification’
Should some die while this goes on
Why … just call it ‘collateral damage’