Somewhere between
prayer and revolution
Between Jesus and Huey P. Newton
That's where you find Jonny
5 shoot shootin'
Water guns at the audience
while ya scootin'
Your glutenous max due to the
fact that I'm tootin'
On the horn gonna warn
you that I'm rootin'
For the other team in the culture wars
So I stab the beast belly
while the vulture snores
Yo Joe!
Let it blow with convulsive force
Till walls fall off their false supports
Till Jericho's aircraft
carriers alter course
And all brave young Americans
are called ashore
Cause we've already lost the war
they keep wagin'
Splattering the streets in battles
that keep ragin'
Bloodyin' each page of the story
that we're studying
Each day the same just the names
keep changin'
[Chorus:]
Saying the same things over again
Repeatin' the same slogans we don't
know where we've been
We've been all over the globe on
our government's funds
Leavin' man woman and child
dead bloody and numb
Saying the same things over again
Repeatin' the same slogans we
don't know where we've 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 up hold your pride
Fears uncontrolled just swoll the tide
Of blood in the streets
while the people die
I'ma keep on tryin'
Longs as suffering's multiplyin'
And why not
Souls get tossed and left out to rot
My backs broad enough
to help left your cross
As long as you help with mine
The process of healing will take some time
To see the pain on your face
is the same as mine
Not a game or a race but the
stake is high
We maintain our mistakes
for the sake of sides
As long as it takes I"ll say it
one more time
As long as it takes I'll say it one more time
As long as it takes I'll say
it one more time
[Chorus]
We need money for health-care and and
public welfare
Free mumia and Leonard peltier
Human needs not corporate greed
Drop the debt and legalize weed
We say yes to grassroots organization
No to neoliberal globalization
Bring the troops back to the USA
And shut down Guantanamo Bay
The same things over again
My throat's so sore from shoutin'
no war for the soldiers again
Lookin' for cloud cover when the
explosions begin
Lookin' the crowd over wonder if
you where
we've been
We've been all over the globe
Iran to Nicaragua
Guatamala Angola grenada
Dominican republic Haiti chile
It don't stop and it won't stop
unless we keep say
[Chorus]
Who let'em overthrow
Jacobo Arbenz
Who let'em overthrow Mohammad
Mosaddeq
Who let'em assassinate Salvador Allende
I didn't let them but they did it anyway
Who let'em overthrow
Kwame Nkrumah
Who let'em overthrow Aristide
Who let'em assassinate Oscar Romero
I didn't let'em but they did indeed!
Don't
let them assassinate Hugo Chavez
Don't let them assassinate
Evo Morales
Bring back Martin,, Malcolm, Medgar, Hampton,
Goodman, Schwerner, Chaney
