Whose tears are these?
Pooling like blood, collected at my feet.
Like gun shots ringing out are someone's mother's screams because in the heat of stupidity someone killed her baby
And in the heat of our greed, someone's baby goes to bed hungry
Last night I went to bed hungry and finally I understood
The world is hungry
Starving for someone to care
Feigning for someone to be there
We're praying for someone to line our pockets with green bills
So we can get on grocery lines without the swipe of the e.b.t.
So we can get off of food pantry lines, standing in the blistering heat
Let your love rain down on me
We hope, scream, dream, beg and plead
But no one seems to listen
No one thinks we can say anything worth listening to
So we drop down spinning because the world kicked the chair from underneath
So hung and annihilated is our American dreams
The American dream is dead!
Because you are not your brother's keeper.
And your sister would have been there if you ever needed her
But you aborted her existence by your self-centered persistence and your presence and power was never resisted, so you rape the rest
Abuse and take advantage of us like we're working in sweat shops.
Hours on end working and we still have to go and steal crops
And then the government wants to be quick to label us as good for nothing worthless and lazy bloodsucking thieves
Funny thing is this country was founded upon the backs of people that were stolen from their land,forced to work without pay and could only hope to stay alive and have food to eat.
That sounds familiar.
Pot calling the kettle black?
I question if anyone else sees
Yes.
In 2011 there's still slavery!
And I know it happens elsewhere but I'm talking about this, our country
They say united we stand, but for their brothers in need, they won't ever take responsibility
This hell and prison that we've created has been funded by self centered greed.
Soldiers die for a country that doesn't fully support them.
And we fight for other nations' freedom when we don't understand them, we don't respect them
How can you fight for others' freedom if you yourself are not free?
Underground railroaded to freedom but what's behind you and who's not next to you, you don't see.
Because I care about this country
I care about the future of you and me
Once again I ask
Whose tears are these?
Pooling like blood, collected at my feet.
Like gun shots ringing out are someone's mother's screams because in the heat of stupidity someone killed her baby
And in the heat of our greed, someone's baby goes to bed hungry
Last night I went to bed hungry and finally I understood
The world is hungry
Starving for someone to care
Feigning for someone to be there
We're praying for someone to line our pockets with green bills
So we can get on grocery lines without the swipe of the e.b.t.
So we can get off of food pantry lines, standing in the blistering heat
Let your love rain down on me
We hope, scream, dream, beg and plead
But no one seems to listen
No one thinks we can say anything worth listening to
So we drop down spinning because the world kicked the chair from underneath
So hung and annihilated is our American dreams
The American dream is dead!
Because you are not your brother's keeper.
And your sister would have been there if you ever needed her
But you aborted her existence by your self-centered persistence and your presence and power was never resisted, so you rape the rest
Abuse and take advantage of us like we're working in sweat shops.
Hours on end working and we still have to go and steal crops
And then the government wants to be quick to label us as good for nothing worthless and lazy bloodsucking thieves
Funny thing is this country was founded upon the backs of people that were stolen from their land,forced to work without pay and could only hope to stay alive and have food to eat.
That sounds familiar.
Pot calling the kettle black?
I question if anyone else sees
Yes.
In 2011 there's still slavery!
And I know it happens elsewhere but I'm talking about this, our country
They say united we stand, but for their brothers in need, they won't ever take responsibility
This hell and prison that we've created has been funded by self centered greed.
Soldiers die for a country that doesn't fully support them.
And we fight for other nations' freedom when we don't understand them, we don't respect them
How can you fight for others' freedom if you yourself are not free?
Underground railroaded to freedom but what's behind you and who's not next to you, you don't see.
Because I care about this country
I care about the future of you and me
Once again I ask
Whose tears are these?
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