Same Thing - Flobots
fight with tools
somewhere between prayer and revolution
between Jesus and Huey P.Newton
that's where ya find johnny five shoot shooting
water guns at the audience while you're scooting
your glutinous max to the fact that he's tooting
on the horn
gonna warn you that im routing
for the other team in the culture wars
so I stab the beast's belly as the vulture snores
yo Joe let it blow with convulsive force
till' walls fall off their false supports
till' Jericho's aircraft carriers alter cause
and all brave young Americans are called to shore
cos we already lost the war
they keep waging
splattering the streets and battles keep raging
bloodying each page in the story that we're studying
each day the same just the names keep changing
(saying the same things over again )
(repeating the same slogans we don't know where we been)
we've been all over the globe on our government funds
leaving man woman and child dead bloody and numb
(saying the same things over again )
(repeating the same slogans we don't know where we been)
we've been overthrowing leaders with legitimate views
democratically elected but we didn't approve
(how many times can the line divide?)
(how many wars to uphold your pride?)
(these fears uncontrolled just swell the tide)
(of blood in the streets while the people die)
(im a keep on trying)
(long as suffering is multiplying)
(and why not?)
(these souls getting tossed and left out to rot)
(my back's broad enough to help lift your cross)
(as long as you help with mine)
(the process of healing will take some time)
(to see the pain in your face is the same as mine)
(it's not a game over race but the stake's are high)
(we maintain our mistakes for the sake of sides)
(as long as it takes, I say it one more time)
(as long as it takes, I say it one more time)
(as long as it takes, I say it one more time)
(saying the same things over again )
(repeating the same slogans we don't know where we been)
we've been all over the globe on our government funds
leaving man woman and child dead bloody and numb
(saying the same things over again )
(repeating the same slogans we don't know where we been)
we've been overthrowing leaders with legitimate views
democratically elected but we didn't approve
(same thing)
U.S is not us
(same thing)
and us is not we
(same thing)
and we are not satisfied
(same thing)
and we're tired of the same thing
(same thing)
and we're ready to make change
(same thing)
are we ready to make change?
we want money for health care
and public welfare
(free Mumia)
and Leonard Peltier
human needs not corporate greeds
drop the debt
and legalized weed (and legalized weed)
we say yes
to grass routes organization
no
to neoliberal globalisation
bring the troops back to the USA
and shut down Guantanamo bay
who let em overthrow Jacobo Arbenz?
who let em overthrow Mohamed Mosaddeq?
who let em assassinate Salvadore Allende?
(I didn't let em but they did it, anyway)
who let em overthrow Kwame Nkrumah?
who let em overthrow Aristide?
who let em assasinate Oscar Romero?
(I did a letter but they did it indeed)
but don't let them assassinate Hugo Chaves
don't let them assassinate Evo Morales
and brick back Martin, Malcolm, Medgar, Hampton, Scwarner, Goodman, Cheney
(saying the same things over again )
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