Listen to me, friends, from New York to California

Consider for a moment Sulaymaniyah

The last city volunteers would often see before

They hiked over the mountain and joined the war

For the freedom of the people of Rojava

The enclave defended by RPG's and guns

Wielded by Rojava's daughters and sons

Along with scores of those who have come from far and near

Who learned to fire mortars so they could fight right here

For the freedom of the people of Rojava

What makes a person go from Occupy Wall Street

To marching through the desert with blisters on their feet

To risk life and liberty to face Islamic State

Knowing that martyrdom would likely be their fate

For the freedom of the people of Rojava

Something worth defending isn't hard to find

But not many will go off and leave their homes behind

To go train on the mountain with the YPG

To go join somebody's struggle out of solidarity

For the freedom of the people of Rojava

The blood of many folk has been spilled along the way

Including several radicals from the USA

So remember Robert Grodt and Michael Israel

Paolo Todd, Jordan MacTaggart – how they lived and how they fell

For the freedom of the people of Rojava