Somewhere between prayer and revolution
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Between Jesus and Huey P. Newton
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That’s where you find Jonny 5 shoot-shootin'
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Water guns at the audience while you’re scootin'
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Your gluteus max due to the fact that he’s tootin
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On the horn, gonna warn you that I’m rootin'
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For the other team in the culture wars
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So I stab the beast’s belly as the vulture snores
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Yo Joe, let it blow with convulsive force
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'Til walls fall off their false supports
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'Til Jericho’s aircraft carriers alter course
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And all brave young Americans are called ashore
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Cause we’ve already lost the war they keep wagin'
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Splattering the streets in battles that keep ragin'
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Bloodying each page of the story that we’re studyin'
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Each day the same, just the names keep changin'
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Saying the same things over again
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Repeatin' the same slogans, we don’t know where we’ve been
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We’ve been all over the globe on our government funds
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Leavin' man, woman, and child dead, bloody, and numb
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Saying the same things over again
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Repeatin' the same slogans, we don’t know where we’ve been
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We’ve been overthrowin' leaders with legitimate views
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Democratically elected but we didn’t approve
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How many times can the line divide?
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How many wars to uphold your pride?
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These fears uncontrolled just swoll the tide
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Of blood in the streets while the people die
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I’mma keep on tryin', long as sufferin' is multiplyin'
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And why not?
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These souls gettin tossed and left out to rot
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My back’s broad enough to help lift your cross
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As long as you help with mine
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The process of healing will take some time
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To see the pain in yo' face is the same as mine
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It’s not a game or a race but the stakes is high
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We maintain our mistakes for the sakes of sides
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As long as it takes, I’ll say it one more time
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As long as it takes, I’ll say it one more time
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As long as it takes, I’ll say it one more time
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Saying the same things over again
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Repeatin' the same slogans, we don’t know where we’ve been
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We’ve been all over the globe on our government funds
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Leavin' man, woman, and child dead, bloody, and numb
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Saying the same things over again
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Repeatin' the same slogans, we don’t know where we’ve been
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We’ve been overthrowin' leaders with legitimate views
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Democratically elected but we didn’t approve
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Same thing (U.S. is not us)
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Same thing (And us is not we)
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Same thing (And we are not satisfied!)
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Same thing (We're tired of the same thing)
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Same thing (And we’re ready to make change)
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Same thing (Are we ready to make change?)
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We want money for health care and public welfare
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Free Mumia and Leonard Peltier
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Human needs, not corporate greed
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Drop the debt and legalize weed!
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We say YES to grassroots organization
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NO to neo-liberal globalization
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Bring the troops back to the USA
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And shut down Guantanamo Bay!
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Who let 'em overthrow Jacobo Arbenz?
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Who let 'em overthrow Mohammad Mosaddeq?
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Who let 'em assassinate Salvador Allende?
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I didn’t let 'em but they did it anyway!
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Who let 'em overthrow Kwame Nkrumah?
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Who let 'em overthrow Aristide?
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Who let 'em assassinate Oscar Romero?
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I didn’t let 'em but they did it indeed!
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But don’t let them assassinate Hugo Chavez
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Don’t let them assassinate Evo Morales
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And bring back Martin, Malcolm, Medgar
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Hampton, Schwerner, Goodman, Chaney
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Sayin' the same things over again |