SAME THING

(c) 2005 Jamie Laurie & Stephen Brackett









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 gluteous 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 roars


YO JOE!

let it blow with convulsive force


til walls fall off their false supports


til 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





Hook:


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....





verse 2


How many times can the line divide


how many wars to uphold some pride


fears uncontrolled just swoll the tide


of blood in the streets while the people die


Ima 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





Hook





verse three


we need money for healthcare 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





Hook





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