Sweatshop Union
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Listen up everybodyTo those working in banks and armed service ranksTo all the children born and raised in internment campsTo all the youth sittin' in front of your TVs at homeListen up everybodyThere's no U-N-I-T-YThat you can hide behindLife is "eye for an eye"Would you die for you prideYou cannot surviveAre you not surprisedWhen they cock their guns?Too many Nazi crimesYou gotta walk to runThere's a name to be givenTo a loaded semi automatic hatred you feelin'It's the face that are fillin'This patriotism is the coreOf this whole generation we live inNo it ain't the beginnin'You're life's at riskYou might be conscriptedAnd sent off to fightTo a place where the air's like nitroglycerinAnd every nightCryin' to see your wife and kids againLetras de cancionesThe cycle's vicious whenYou're right in between itYou don't like the system but your fightin' to keep itWhen we gonna learn through it?Gonna turn your blind eyeHoping (echo) in time you and I can do itPut your mind to it[Chorus:]As I lay my soul down to sleepI reach deepPray to have some ground to keepAnd be freeWithout the need to hold the chromeIt always seems so much worseWhen it's close to home (close to home)As I lay my soul down to sleepI pray the Lord save my friends and my familyAnd keep mePlease protect my boundariesI listen to the bombs fallTill I'm sound asleepI'm like fuck anybodyThat turned in some personLivin' next door to himCause the dudes is wearin' a turbinWorkin' hard, 9 to 5, payin his taxesOnly to come home get harrassedAnd asked if he'sIn anyway related to Al QaedaCause the neighbours suspicious of his behaviourAnd then they go an' call it patriotismBut it's hate that is drivenAnd so the racism sits and it growsIn the pits of your soulsUntil the shit just explodesAnd you're bombing peopleThat are calm and peacefulClaimin' it's for the goalOf protecting your childrenBut how the fuck are the children being protectedWhen we're building the weapons to kill them with?It just doesn't make sense to meWe're gettin' screwed and we been doing it for centuriesJust sendin' these kids off to their deathsAs we sit, watch press releasesAnd pledge allegiance, butTo those working in banks and armed service ranksTo all the children born and raised in internment campsTo all the youth sittin' in front of your TVsat homeListen up everybody[Chorus]The bottom line isThat they got us all falling in lineCause they got us forgettin' to pass behind usYou can't supply foreign lands with minesAnd not finance these guns into the hands of minorsAnd most of them look just like me, don't they?And most of you think I just might beSome religious fanatic with tricks up my sleaveReady to hi-jack this airbus and bust 19But the bottom line is that they got our minds twisted andGot us focusing our lives on our differencesI must have missed it if your God's different than mine, andI hope you're getting what I tryin to fit in this rhyme andWhen they come in the morning to take usI hope you quite your humming and hawing and wake upAnd when they make you disappear without a traceCause of what you believePlease remember these words (these words)[Chorus]I listen to the tanks rollTill I'm sound asleepI listen to the Jews marchTill I'm sound asleepSound asleepTill I'm sound asleepI listen to the Jews march right down my streetThe electricity's offSupermarkets are closed offPhone's deadThere's soldiers in the streetsRight here in your promised landIt's too lateYou waited, debated, sedated for yearsYou stated it could never happen in our cornerNow wake up and smell the books burnin'
From Letras Mania