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Listen up everybody

To those working in banks and armed service ranks

To all the children born and raised in internment camps

To all the youth sittin' in front of your TVs at home

Listen up everybody

There's no U-N-I-T-Y

That you can hide behind

Life is "eye for an eye"

Would you die for you pride

You cannot survive

Are you not surprised

When they cock their guns?

Too many Nazi crimes

You gotta walk to run

There's a name to be given

To a loaded semi automatic hatred you feelin'

It's the face that are fillin'

This patriotism is the core

Of this whole generation we live in

No it ain't the beginnin'

You're life's at risk

You might be conscripted

And sent off to fight

To a place where the air's like nitroglycerin

And every night

Cryin' to see your wife and kids again

The cycle's vicious when

You're right in between it

You don't like the system but your fightin' to keep it

When we gonna learn through it?

Gonna turn your blind eye

Hoping (echo) in time you and I can do it

Put your mind to it

As I lay my soul down to sleep

I reach deep

Pray to have some ground to keep

And be free

Without the need to hold the chrome

It always seems so much worse

When it's close to home (close to home)

As I lay my soul down to sleep

I pray the Lord save my friends and my family

And keep me

Please protect my boundaries

I listen to the bombs fall

Till I'm sound asleep

I'm like fuck anybody

That turned in some person

Livin' next door to him

Cause the dudes is wearin' a turbin

Workin' hard, 9 to 5, payin his taxes

Only to come home get harrassed

And asked if he's

In anyway related to Al Qaeda

Cause the neighbours suspicious of his behaviour

And then they go an' call it patriotism

But it's hate that is driven

And so the racism sits and it grows

In the pits of your souls

Until the shit just explodes

And you're bombing people

That are calm and peaceful

Claimin' it's for the goal

Of protecting your children

But how the fuck are the children being protected

When we're building the weapons to kill them with?

It just doesn't make sense to me

We're gettin' screwed and we been doing it for centuries

Just sendin' these kids off to their deaths

As we sit, watch press releases

And pledge allegiance, but

To those working in banks and armed service ranks

To all the children born and raised in internment camps

To all the youth sittin' in front of your TVs

at home

Listen up everybody

As I lay my soul down to sleep

I reach deep

Pray to have some ground to keep

And be free

Without the need to hold the chrome

It always seems so much worse

When it's close to home (close to home)

As I lay my soul down to sleep

I pray the Lord save my friends and my family

And keep me

Please protect my boundaries

I listen to the bombs fall

Till I'm sound asleep

The bottom line is

That they got us all falling in line

Cause they got us forgettin' to pass behind us

You can't supply foreign lands with mines

And not finance these guns into the hands of minors

And most of them look just like me, don't they?

And most of you think I just might be

Some religious fanatic with tricks up my sleave

Ready to hi-jack this airbus and bust 19

But the bottom line is that they got our minds twisted and

Got us focusing our lives on our differences

I must have missed it if your God's different than mine, and

I hope you're getting what I tryin to fit in this rhyme and

When they come in the morning to take us

I hope you quite your humming and hawing and wake up

And when they make you disappear without a trace

Cause of what you believe

Please remember these words (these words)

As I lay my soul down to sleep

I reach deep

Pray to have some ground to keep

And be free

Without the need to hold the chrome

It always seems so much worse

When it's close to home (close to home)

As I lay my soul down to sleep

I pray the Lord save my friends and my family

And keep me

Please protect my boundaries

I listen to the bombs fall

Till I'm sound asleep

I listen to the tanks roll

Till I'm sound asleep

I listen to the Jews march

Till I'm sound asleep

Sound asleep

Till I'm sound asleep

I listen to the Jews march right down my street

The electricity's off

Supermarkets are closed off

Phone's dead

There's soldiers in the streets

Right here in your promised land

It's too late

You waited, debated, sedated for years

You stated it could never happen in our corner

Now wake up and smell the books burnin'