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

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
Im’a keep on tryin
Long 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
You 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

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

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!

So don’t let them assassinate Hugo Chavez
Don’t let them assassinate Evo Morales
And bring back Martin, Malcolm, Medgar,
Hampton, Goodman, Schwerner, CHENEY