Same Thing Flobots

Watch the Same Thing Flobots video, Song Same Thing Band Flobots Album Fight with Tools Track 03 Lyrics 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 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 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