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my love, my city pale as the grave/sterile, subdued, enslaved/houses
bought, communities sold/in the name of turning concrete into gold/the
world you leave us has no legacy/but our daughters will name us and our
sons will show us the way/in the world you would have all of us
drown/the world you would have i would burn down/this city is dying,
buried in poison/with your wood and your nails, while you sing its
eulogy/well, save your breath, because now it's us, singing for
you/save your breath, i'll sing for you/torch city hall/burn it
down/we'll march a pony through its ashes/
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//guillotine poem by lionel joseph//
we packed the blades away/it wasn't time for us to run things yet/go back to prayers, take all that you can get/but don't touch theirs/go back to buddy, can you spare a dime?/the boss is right/we've got a lot to learn, backs to the wall/like how to steal a light/to torch a palace just to see it burn/to topple empires just to hear them fall//but we've burned that flag a thousand times before/whatever did we get, no open door/no hand held out in love, but only war/so now the flag we raise above us means something more/a hundred fucking centuries and no one's learned a thing/a thousand words of anger, just another song to sing/a million fucking wars we fight, wrapped up in flags of hate/and one last dream of peace as we surrender to our fate/a color without country, without lesson, without life/there's no meaning left without an answer and a price/like purity, like god, like bones bleached in the sun/and moon and stars and rivers, oceans flowing into one/a single piece of cloth in the barrel of a gun/
it's hard to make a monster out of government schemes/while you're looking for the truth, they're looking in your dreams/and they just make a scapegoat out of what you'll never get/make you weak with punk rock records, and high school regrets/why weren't it that way then?/how do we make it that way now?/white leftist guilt and self-reflection, that's the real cash cow/making movies, writing books, singing songs to fight the man/it runs too deep/they made it up/so you will never understand their plan/what if it's all a hoax?/what if it's all a con?/ what if they're paying us to stand up here and sing this song?/did you ever think about that?/no, i can see it in your eyes/you never even thought about the source of all the lies/but now evolution's trapped/time is running back/there's no way to know if they help or they attack/but oh, my dear/i still love you/and love is all we need/to help us make it through/oh my sweet, when i look in your eyes/all that i can see is the reflection of their lies/
the ice age is coming/the cold war is here/we'll wait all our lives for the summer of next year//oh look, there's frost upon the window pane/ and look out at the rain/it's turniong into snow/do you think it could be climate change?/well, who am i to know?//the icy cycle starts again with the slamming of a door/but this time kabul's nicagagua and baghdad's el salvador/they'll fight the wars that go unseen in countries other than their own/and make speeches about valor as armies trudge through the snow//the ice age is here//the faster that we drop the bombs the darker turn the skies/the factories that make the guns will make the oceans rise/we'll all freeze to death in the new world that is coming/but is it nuclear winter or the ice that has us running?/nature will destroy us if we don't do it first/ the powerplant becomes a grave, the car becomes a hearse/
who cares?/who cares?/who cares?/who cares?/who cares?/who cares?/ who cares?/who cares?//who will we get to fight this war?/i know, i know/ we'll use the poor/let's close down the factories/more layoffs means more soldiers/and that's more money for our pensions/now that we're all getting older//who cares?/we've got plenty of them/roadside surprise, another one dies/just more meat for the flies/who cares?/we've got plenty of them/friendly fire, they're shooting each other/blood dripping down their backs/who cares?/we've got plenty of them/eleven soldiers died today/ how many more tomorrow?/who cares?/we've got plenty of them/who cares?/ they're not human anyway//who cares?/we've got plenty of them/who cares?/ we've got plenty of them/who cares?/we've got plenty of them/who cares?/ who cares? who cares? who cares? who cares? who cares? who cares?/
for the last several centuries humankind has been in a steady state of decline/we are using up our resources faster than we can begin thinking of how to replenish them/soon we'll be scrambling to stay alive/perhaps one day swept away by the tide/but if we help each other/if we reach out to one another/then maybe, just maybe, we can have a hope to survive//things will get better on their own/i don't want to rock the boat/i mean, why should i stand up?/this couch that i've been sitting on is so comfortable/why fix things if they're not broken?/what's wrong with the way things are?/it's too hard to change things now/do you know a better way?//do you really believe in their mass produced shit?/do you really believe that their system is right?/do you really believe that we've done all we can?/show them your fist, not the palm of your hand/do you really believe it's already too late?/can you even concieve of what we've got on our plates?/a big pile of shit from the asses of kings/and a gag in our mouths for the songs that we sing/
i derive no joy from hate/and i ask for nothing from the state/but still they take my money, take my life/there's only one way to survive/so i walk arm in arm with murderers/and i take anything they offer/but in my heart i plant a seed/come one day my heart be free//then there is no motherfucking way/there's not the slightest fucking chance/that i will bow to you that day/that i will ask you for this dance/romance/no fucking romance/i play a game, i make a move/one step removed from love and truth/and still i wait, and still i wait/but this tree will never grow i hate/there's no time for questions now/what if? what if? well, maybe so/there's a weak link in every chain/but it's never you that is to blame/what if it's all a game, all wrong?/each revolution makes them strong/maybe it's too late for this song/what else to do but carry on?//what if we stopped believing in a slogan based solution?/what if we stopped believing in a catch all revolution/what if we started acting like we'd already won/like the power and the wealth were ours to share as one/how would you treat your neighbors, or those you claim to hate?/you say the time is coming soon, but what if it's too late?//what if?/what if?/what if?/what if?/
god is watching us, god is watching us, god is watching us from a distance//i do not remember the garden of eden, i am not made of mud, and i cannot dream of returning to dust//the meek shall inherit the earth they say/but they want us to obey/their law, and god's law/but there is no god, and there is no law/the meek shall inherit the earth, they say/but from what father/from what fucking king?/you say god is watching us/i say you watch yourself/
what would you do with your last 20 seconds of time?/would you wait in line?/
sick of all the lies, our faces we disguise/you cannot label what you cannot recognize/our flag is blank and white, a beacon in the night/is it the symbol of surrender or the symbol of a fight?// who will live and who will die and who will decide?/and in the end or is it the beginning/who raise the last white flag?/who will burn the last white flag?//we'll untie our masks when you untie our hands/ and we'll take all our masters, make them slaves and then/we will rule the land and crush all those below us/they will rise above and take over and start over again//right and left and right and wrong and black and white/ and you can fight it out while we pursue our dreams/can you hear the people off into the distance?/is it the sound of laughter or the sound of screams?/
there's no war/there's no war/there's no war worth my love for you/ there's no war/there's no war/there's no war that leads to peace or truth// from well fed mouths flutter moths and lies/they say it's duty, it's honor, it's pride/but all you can really do is close your eyes/ while other people's children lay down to die/and despite all my desperate cries/i can't seem to uncloud your eyes/can't i make you see?// there's no war/there's no war/there's no war worth my love for you/ there's no war/there's no war/there's no war that leads to peace or truth// there's no war/to defend our freedom/there's no war/to keep us safe/there's no war/righteous or justified/there's no war/worth your life or mine/ there's no war that leads to anything but hate//
