After
the Garden
Won't need no shadow man
Runnin' the government
Won't need no stinkin' WAR
Won't need no haircut
Won't need no shoe shine
After the garden is gone
After the garden is gone
After the garden is gone
What will people do?
After the garden is gone
What will people say?
After the garden
Won't need no strong man
Walkin' through the night
To live a weak man's day
Won't need no sunshine
Won't need no purple haze
After the garden is gone
After the garden is gone
After the garden is gone
Where will people go?
After the garden is gone
What will people know?
After the garden
After the garden is gone
After the garden is gone
(We live in the garden of
Eden, yeah
Don't know why we wanna
tear the whole thing to the ground
We live in the garden of
Eden, yeah
Don't know why we wanna
tear the whole thing down
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden)
The Restless Consumer
The people have heard the
news
The people have spoken
You may not like what they
said
But they weren't jokin'
Way out on the desert sands
Lies a desperate lover
They call her the "Queen
of Oil"
So much to discover
Don't need no ad machine
Telling me what I need
Don't need no Madison Avenue
War
Don't need no more boxes
I can see
Covered in flags but I can't
see them on TV
Don't need no more lies
(x4)
The restless consumer flies
Around the world each day
With such an appetite for
taste and grace
People from around the world
Need someone to listen
We're starving and dying
from our disease
We need your medicine
How do you pay for war
And leave us dyin' ?
When you could do so much
more
You're not even tryin'
Don't need no TV ad
Tellin' me how sick I am
Don't want to know how many
people are like me
Don't need no dizziness
Don't need no nausea
Don't need no side effects
like diarrhea or sexual death
Don't need no more lies
(x4)
The restless consumer lies
Asleep in her hotel
With such an appetite
For anything that sells
A hundred voices from a
hundred lands
Need someone to listen
People are dying here and
there
They don't see the world
the way you do
There's no mission accomplished
here
Just death to thousands
A hundred voices from a
hundred lands
Cry out in unison
Don't need no terror squad
Don't want no damned Jihad
Blowin' themselves away
in my hood
But we don't talk to them
So we don't learn from them
Hate don't negotiate with
Good
Don't need no more lies
(x4)
The restless comsumer flies
Around the world each day
With such an appetite for
efficiency
And pace...
Don't need no more lies.
Families
When you try to bring our
spirit home
Won't you celebrate our
lives
In a way that's right for
our children
And families
When you write your songs
about us
Won't you try to do us justice
Because we want to be just
like you
And your families
I see a light ahead
There's a chill wind blowin'
in my head
I wish that I was home instead
With my family
There's a universe between
us now
But I want to reach our
and tell you how
Much you mean to me
And my family
I'm goin' back to the USA
I just got my ticket today
I can't wait to see you
again
In the USA.
Let's Impeach the President
Let's impeach the president
for lyin'
Misleading our country into
WAR
Abusing all the power that
we gave him
And shipping all our money
out the door
Who's the man who hired
all the criminals
The white house shadows
who hide behind closed doors
And bend the facts to fit
with their new story
Of why we have to send our
men to war
Let's impeach the president
for spyin'
On citizens inside their
own homes
Breaking ev'ry law in the
country
By tapping our computers
and telephones
What if AL QUAEDA blew up
the levees,
Would New Orleans have been
safer that way?
Sheltered by the government's
protection
Or was someone just not
home that day?
flip
flop
flip
flop
Let's impeach the president
for hijacking
Our religion and using it
to get elected
Dividing our country into
colors
And still leaving black
people neglected
Thank GOD he's crackin'
down on steroids
Since he sold his old baseball
team
There's lot's of people
lookin' at big trouble
But of course the president
is clean
Roger and Out
Trippin' down that old hippie
highway
Got thinkin' 'bout you again
Wonderin' how it really
was for you
And how it happened in the
end
But I guess I'll never know
the truth
If you were really all alone
We were just a couple of
kids then
Livin' each and every day
When we both went down to
register
We were laughin' all the
way
That's when we named it
Hippie Highway
I still call it that today
Roger and out good buddy
I still call it that today
Two camaros racin' down
the road
Feels just like yesterday
Roger and out good buddy
I feel you in the air today
I know you gave for your
country
I feel you in the air today
Roger and out good buddy |
Living
With War
I'm living with war everyday
I'm living with war in my
heart everyday
I'm living with war right
now
And when the dawn breaks
I see my fellow man
And on the flat-screen we
kill and we're killed again
And when the night falls,
I pray for peace
Try to remember peace (visualize)
I join the multitudes
I raise my hand in peace
I never bow to the laws
of the thought police
I take a holy vow
To never kill again
To never kill again
I'm living with war in my
heart
I'm living with war in my
heart in my mind
I'm living with war right
now
Don't take no tidal wave
Don't take no mass grave
Don't take no smokin' gun
To show how the west was
won
But when the curtain falls,
I pray for peace
Try to remember peace (visualize)
In the crowded streets
In the big hotels
In the mosques and the doors
of the old museum
I take a holy vow
To never kill again
Try to remember peace
The rocket's red glare
Bombs bursting in air
Give proof through the night,
That our flag is still there
I'm living with war everyday
I'm living with war in my
heart everyday
I'm living with wat right
now
Shock and Awe
Back in the days of shock
and awe
We came to liberate them
all
History was the cruel judge
of overconfidence
Back in the days of shock
and awe
Back in the days of "mission
accomplished"
Our chief was landing on
the deck
The sun was setting on a
golden photo op
Back in the days of "mission
accomplished"
Thousands of bodies in the
ground
Brought home in boxes to
a trumpet's sound
No one sees them coming
home that way
Thousands buried in the
ground
Thousands of children scarred
for life
Millions of tears for a
soldier's wife
Both sides are losing now
Heaven takes them in
Thousands of children scarred
for life
We had a chance to change
our mind
But somehow wisdom was hard
to find
We went with what we knew
and now we can't go back
But we had a chance to change
our mind
Flags of Freedom
Today's the day our younger
son
Is going off to war
Fightin' in the age old
battle
We've sometimes won before
Flags that line old main
street
Are blowin' in the wind
These must be the flags
of freedom flyin'
Church bells are ringin'
As the families stand and
wave
Some of them are cryin'
But the soldiers look so
brave
Lookin' straight ahead
Like they know just where
they're goin'
Past the flags of freedom
flyin'
Sister has her headphones
on
She hears the music blasting
She sees her brother marchin'
by
Their bond is everlasting
Listening to Bob Dylan singin'
In 1963
Watching the flags of freedom
flyin'
She sees the president speakin'
On a Flat-screen TV
In the window of the old
appliance store
She turns to see her brother
again
But he's already walkin'
past
The flags of freedom flyin'
Have you seen the flags
of freedom?
What color are they now?
Do you think that you believe
in yours
More than they do theirs
somehow?
When you see the flags of
freedom flyin'
Today's the day our younger
son
Is goin' off to war
Fightin' in the age old
battle
We've sometimes won before
Flags that line old main
street
Are blowin' in the wind
These must be the flags
of freedom flyin'
Lookin' for a Leader
Lookin' for a Leader
To bring our country home
Re-unite the red white and
blue
Before it turns to stone
Lookin' for somebody
Young enough to take it
on
Clean up the corruption
And make the country strong
Walkin' among our people
There's someone who's straight
and strong
To lead us from desolation
And a broken world gone
wrong
Someone walks among us
And I hope he hears the
call
And maybe it's a woman
Or a black man after all
Yeah maybe it's Obama
But he thinks that he's
too young
Maybe it's Colin Powell
To right what he's done
wrong
America has a leader
But he's not in the house
He's waling here among us
And we've got to seek him
out
Yeah we've got our election
But corruption has a chance
We got to have a clean win
To regain confidence
America is beautiful
But she has an ugly side
We're lookin' for a leader
In this country far and
wide
We're lookin' for a leader
With the great spirit on
his side
Someone walks among us
And I hope he hears the
call
And maybe it's a woman
Or a black man after all
America the Beautiful
O beautiful for spacious
skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with
brotherhood
From sea to shining sea! |
