With God On Our Side-K'naan

[ti:With God On Our Side] [ar:K'naan] [al:Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]With God On Our Side - K'naan [00:09.70]It's a movie and the whole [00:11.08]World is viewing it [00:12.35]And the popcorn is dreams [00:14.20]Torn but we're always chewing it [00:16.45]They said dishonest by god but [00:19.19]The costumes by the devil [00:20.90]And the screenplay is adapted [00:23.02]From a book that's embezzled [00:25.79]This is where I grew up [00:27.47]This is where I grew proud [00:29.53]This is where neighbors never [00:31.06]Say music is too loud [00:33.55]This is where the streets have [00:34.91]No name but they have history [00:37.43]This is loss is victory [00:40.23]Oh my name it ain't nothing [00:44.16]My age it means less [00:48.35]The country I come from [00:52.23]Could be like the rest [00:56.04]I was taught and brought [00:58.54]Up there laws to abide [01:04.10]And the land that I live [01:06.49]In has god on it's side [01:13.18]I was young I grew [01:14.96]I could tie my shoe [01:16.93]I was blind but I knew that [01:19.12]I would always see blue [01:20.99]Blue seas I see through on [01:23.25]The bottom I'll meet you [01:25.07]And when we come up for a breath [01:26.80]Would you mind if I kiss you [01:29.06]Childhood came up for the kiss [01:30.95]But it slips it's pain in with mist [01:33.02]And the sunny skies came and I missed it [01:36.29]Vanished and when swept [01:38.30]Landed we slept in the arms [01:40.42]Of convenience blanket obedience [01:44.21]Now to some of the americans [01:48.38]War had it's day [01:52.27]And the civil war too was soon laid away [02:00.09]And the names of our warlords [02:04.03]I was made to memorize [02:08.13]With guns in their hands they said [02:12.48]God's on their side [02:17.61]I had an undying wish [02:19.83]To keep from dying [02:21.44]I had an untimely hitch [02:23.86]Keep me from climbing [02:25.48]But I climbed a hitch [02:27.22]Itself and I tried flying [02:29.24]I had an uprising in my soul [02:33.44]The left was fight in the right [02:35.15]And the right was fight in the light [02:37.13]And the light was blind in the night [02:38.92]And the night woke up in tears [02:41.01]When my fingers went to wipe them [02:42.56]They became a poem but to write then [02:44.59]They would have to speak [02:45.83]Tears in another language [02:47.42]That would take years [02:48.77]So now as I'm leavin' [02:52.17]I'm weary as hell [02:56.14]The confusion I'm feelin' [03:00.16]Ain't no tongue can tell [03:04.39]The words fill my head [03:08.29]And fall to the floor [03:12.20]If god's on our side then [03:16.18]Would you ever need war