Saints And Sinner

I am incomplete damaged and imperfect

This world is not divided between saints and sinners

Forgive me for being human

I struggle I suffer I know what it means to survive

This world is crumbling I'll take my flaws

With me and beyond you

Beneath it all...

"family values" with national pride

Will lead to the new cross burnings

And who will be hanging next from that tree

Who'd have my sisters stay at home

To feed and mend and tremble?

Their place is not on their backs or on their knees

We look to anyone to make the trains run on time

Then praise their shovels as we are buried alive

The days pass by unnoticed as we choose not to see the bars

Imprisoned for life while free to go

With a key clutched in our desperate hands all along

Beyond those walls I am wounded and scarred

Isolated but aware and alive

I alone maintain control

I accept no higher soul

I am my beginning and my end

This is a call for redemption

For those I know to have been led blind

With the wounds of the forsaken I'm still screaming

And I might stand alone with no one left to listen

But the last words of this song have yet to be heard