If you don't like the cut of his clothes
If you don't want to hear
Well, it's happening right here
People dying of fear by the droves
Either don't believe it's true
Or else you don't know what to do
Or maybe I'm singing about you
It's incredibly sick, you can feel it
As across the land it flows
Prejudice is slick when it's a word game
Move along quick, it furthers one
You can feel it as it's rumblin'
Let emotions keep a tumblin'
Then as cities start to crumblin'
Mostly empty bellies grumblin'
People see somebody different
Fear is the first reaction shown
Then they think they've got him licked
A human spirit is devoured
The remains left to carrion crow
I was told that life is change
Does it always stay the same
Do we shrug it off and say
By and by somebody usually goes
Down to the ghetto try and help
And the rich keep getting richer
And the rest of us just keep
You see one must have a mission
In order to be a good Christian
If you don't you will be missing
High Mass or the evening show
And the well fed masters reap the harvests
Of the polluted seeds they've sown
Smug and self- righteous they bitch
They're so God damn sure they know
I have seen these things with my
And defended my battered soul
It must be too tough to die
Will not force me to take up arms,
And I won't fight by his rules
that's foolishness besides
His ignorance is gonna do him in
Because his children they are growing up
With bigots and their silver
They might throw up on you
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