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A Native American Proverb. "After the last fish has been caught, and the last tree has been cut down, and the last river has been poisoned, only then will they realize that money cannot be eaten.
They'll be selling tickets, to the end of the world show.
see not my message is simple
but you can twist it around
cuz its just words over music
just a wave in a sound
and its comin at you
its comin at you for free
but you will only see
what your ready to see
and on the nine o'clock news
they'll say it was just youthful rage
or some hopless idealism
locked up in a cage
but what seems crazy to me
is this modern age
my head in my hands saying
how many days, Lord
they'll be selling tickets to the end of the world show
we keep pouring our poisons
into the blood of the earth
all diseases externalized
thats the reason this works
and then the rich get richer
and the poor get cancer
and Kaizer Permanente
is the only answer?
they say im a radical
cuz i say its not gona float
and the kingdom responds
by digging a moat
around it ideology
or what it means to be an american
and although i was in the front row
singin' "Yes We Can"
i think this economy
is based on perpetual growth
i think the heavier the treasure
the deeper sinks the boat:
and if we wana survive
all that stuffs gotta go
or else in gona sing it for you
real slow, real slow
they'll be selling tickets, to the end of the world show
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Prison Cells
06:56
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there's prison cells on central square
i never really noticed that they were there
i wonder what our society thinks about mercy?
oh mercy. oh mercy. i can see, i can see.
i see the brick and mortar holding strong
its what we spend our money on
i hear little children singing songs
they sing, "don't let them forget what they've done
don't let them forget what they've done wrong"
i see probation officers, bail and bonds
some people basing their salaries on
up to the man with the button that drops the bomb
they're singin' "don't let them forget what they've done
don't let them forget what they've done wrong"
and then the peace prize president
drops another bomb
and then the peace prize president
drops another bomb
and there's people getting paid
to piece together rubble that we made
and the spirit seems the same
under blood stains that we made
an eighteen-wheeler can speed, on sand
i may not reach the promised land
but i feel untouchable to the invisible hand
its at least a step along the path
turning away to find the way
few will ever find the way
and then, a wedding that we all attend
we hear the words we've heard from beginning to end
"Love keeps not a record of wrongs."
but from the bottom to the top we sing the same song
find our grudges and we're holding 'em on
we sing "don't let them forget what they've done wrong."
and then we wag our finger at
the kids that don't forgive their friends
and we teach them how to live
in ways they've never seen examples of before
only us and to our own
we keep the love within the home
"Love the Lord your God with all your heart,
and your neighbor as yourself."
and we sing, who is our neighbor we ask
who is our neighbor we ask!
the samaritan, the foreigner, the exile, the unclean, the halfbreed, your enemy, the illegal, the homeless, those who trespass against us, the enslaved minorities, the stranger in your land, the one whose ways you think you're never gona understand.
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Moneditas
02:37
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Moneditas de metal,
moneditas de cobre,
pedacitos de oxido,
ni dejarian manchas en...
el polvo a que volveran
y por eso van ganando,
acumulando, juntando, robando
gastando la vida ques unica
y lo mas que van ganando y ganango y ganando
y ganando y poniendo de primera
lo mas que van perdiendo, y poniendose de ultima.
un tesoro temporal,
y para bichos comida,
falsa externa olvidada,
la ambicion que se entierra
buscando vida real
buscando vida eterna
pero cuando empiezara
digo yo que hoydia
ENGLISH
little metal coins
little copper coins
little pieces of rust
that wont even stains on...
the dust that they will return to
and for this they go on killing
accumulating, gathering, stealing
wasting their life, their only life
and the more you go winning (spanish implies riches)
and winning and winning, and putting yourself first
the more you go losing (spanish implies riches) and losing and losing and making yourself last
a temporal treasure
and for little bugs its food
false, external, forgotten
the ambition that gets buried in the ground
looking for life that's real
looking for life eternal
but when might it start
i say it begins today
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Sugar Out of Sunshine
04:33
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I can twist a piece of metal wire into the fingers of a grapevine
i can take a grapevine, make it mine
i can train a grapevine with that same old copper wire
but i cant make no sugar outa sunshine
and you cant make no fool outa me
cuz you cant make no sugar outa sunshine
no and you cant make no fool outa me
i get so much happiness, even from the cheapest of the boxed wine
or trying to taste the heritage of the vine
some folks make a high-brow livin'
just tuning their tastebuds up fine
and they know everything there is to know about the wine
the vineyard keepers keeping perfect time
and they know everything there is to know about the vine
yes, but they cant make no sugar outa sunshine
cuz you cant make no sugar outa sunshine
and you cant make no fool outa me :
i think that science shows the greatest gifts of mankind
but i know that these vibes they were here before we could see
so i beleive in science but i believe in something else too, (something mighty)
and i sat there for a while but i couldn't convince you
and wherever you left it you was thinking i must be a fool
well i believe in thinking, but i believe in feeling too
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Come Back to the Waters
09:52
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