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

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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 
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

[Chorus]

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)

[Chorus]

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'