Long before you ever saw your chances You were going to burn this city down Tired of the fashions and the dances Tired of the people standing around Ticking like a bomb in the night And you knew you were right Black and white Blame it on the time it took to leave here Blame […]
Till i go down Till i go down Till i go down I’m not gonna shut my eyes Till i go down I’m not gonna shut my eyes I’ve already seen the lies On the faces of the men of war Leading people to the killing floor Till i go down Till i go down […]
I’ve been waiting for something to happen For a week or a month or a year With the blood in the ink of the headlines And the sound of the crowd in my ear You might ask what it takes to remember When you know that you’ve seen it before Where a government lies to […]
Papa hit him, mama kissed him Made him go to catechism With the sisters in their black and white And all the time those city streets Were teaching him another kind of wisdom When to run and when to fight Up at the playground after school Listening to tales of the prison system And those […]
Candy - Lives In The Balance
Daughter of a woman who comes and goes Candy Daughter of a man she barely knows Candy All grown up about the things People know to do How to take a love and tear it in two No no no that isn’t how it’s gonna be For candy She wants to be in love But […]
It was a ruby that she wore On a chain around her neck In the shape of a heart In the shape of a heart It was a time i won’t forget For the sorrow and regret And the shape of a heart And the shape of a heart I guess i never knew What […]
God is great, god is good He guards your neighborhood Though it’s generally understood Not quite the way you would You try to take the slack Stay awake and watch his back But something happens every now and then And someone breaks into the promised land Ah boy boy This world is not your toy […]
For America - Lives In The Balance
As if i really didn’t understand That i was just another part of their plan I went off looking for the promise Believing in the motherland And from the comfort of a dreamer’s bed And the safety of my own head I went on speaking of the future While other people fought and bled The […]
