Same Thing-Flobots

[ti:Same Thing (Album Version)] [ar:Flobots] [al:Fight With Tools] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Same Thing (Album Version) - Flobots [00:13.34]Somewhere between prayer and revolution [00:15.22] [00:16.11]Between Jesus and Huey P Newton [00:17.94] [00:18.52]Thats where you find Jonny 5 shoot shootin [00:20.34] [00:20.95]Water guns at the audience while you're scootin' [00:23.53]You're gluteous max due to the fact that hes tootin' [00:26.18]On the horn gonna warn you that I'm rootin' [00:28.55]For the other team in the culture wars [00:30.79]So I stab the beast belly as the vulture snores [00:33.32]Yo Joe let it blow with convulsive force [00:35.16] [00:35.74]Till walls fall off their false supports [00:37.14] [00:37.79]Till Jericho's aircraft carriers alter course [00:40.86]And all brave young Americans are called ashore [00:43.36]Cause we've already lost the war they keep wagin [00:45.96]Splatterin the streets in battles that keep ragin [00:48.17] [00:48.68]Bloodyin each page in the story that we're studyin [00:51.22]Each day the same just the names keep changin [00:53.32] [00:54.04]Sayin the same things over again [00:55.44] [00:56.26]Repeatin the same slogans we don't know where we've been [00:58.64]We've been all over the globe on our government's funds [01:01.12]Leavin man woman and child dead bloody and numb [01:03.34] [01:03.86]Sayin the same things over again [01:05.47] [01:06.32]Repeatin the same slogans we don't know where we've been [01:08.15] [01:08.76]Weve been overthrowin leaders with legitimate views [01:11.12]Democratically elected but we didn't approve [01:12.98] [01:14.15]How many times can the line divide [01:15.67] [01:16.42]How many wars to uphold some pride [01:18.76]These fears uncontrolled just swoll the tide [01:20.79] [01:21.32]Of blood in the streets while the people die [01:23.79]Ima keep on tryin long as suffering's multiplyin [01:26.57] [01:27.55]And why not [01:28.53] [01:29.06]These souls gettin tossed and left out to rot [01:31.44]My backs broad enough to help lift your cross [01:34.11]As long as you help with mine [01:36.10]The process of healin will take some time [01:37.81] [01:38.93]To see the pain in your face is the same as mine [01:41.49]Its not a game or a race but the stakes is high [01:44.03]We maintain our mistakes for the sake of sides [01:46.51]As long as it takes Ill say it one more time [01:49.14]As long as it takes I'll say it one more time [01:51.76]As long as it takes I'll say it one more time [01:53.99] [01:54.82]Sayin the same things over again [01:56.13] [01:56.81]Repeatin the same slogans we don't know where we've been [01:59.29]We've been all over the globe on our government's funds [02:01.73]Leavin man woman and child dead bloody and numb [02:03.77] [02:04.71]Sayin the same things over again [02:06.10] [02:06.94]Repeatin the same slogans we don't know where we've been [02:09.36]Weve been overthrowin leaders with legitimate views [02:11.86]Democratically elected but we didn't approve [02:13.79] [02:15.58](Same thing) [02:16.53] [02:17.18]U S is not us [02:18.18](Same thing) [02:18.82] [02:19.34]And us is not we [02:20.73](Same thing) [02:21.79]And we are not satisfied [02:22.98] [02:25.71](Same thing) [02:27.03]Were tired of the same thing [02:28.47](Same thing) [02:29.68]And were ready to make change [02:31.04](Same thing) [02:32.10]Are we ready to make change [02:33.32] [02:34.52]We want money for health care and public welfare [02:36.70] [02:37.22]Free Mumia and Leonard Peltier [02:39.02] [02:40.04]Human needs not corporate greed [02:42.19]Drop the debt and legalize weed [02:44.09] [02:44.61]We say yes to grassroots organization [02:45.97] [02:47.44]No to neoliberal globalization [02:49.17] [02:49.92]Bring the troops back to the U S A [02:52.11]And shut down Guantanamo Bay [02:53.77] [02:54.95]Who let 'em overthrow Jacobo Arbenz [02:56.63] [02:57.32]Who let 'em overthrow Mohammad Mosaddeq [02:59.29] [02:59.90]Who let 'em assassinate Salvador Allende [03:01.94] [03:02.50]I didn't let them but they did it anyway [03:05.10]Who let 'em overthrow Kwame Nkrumah [03:06.76] [03:07.49]Who let 'em overthrow Aristide [03:09.06] [03:09.98]Who let 'em assassinate Oscar Romero [03:11.94] [03:12.89]I didn't let 'em but they did indeed [03:15.00]But don't let them assassinate Hugo Chavez [03:16.81] [03:17.51]Don't let them assassinate Evo Morales [03:19.42] [03:20.08]And bring back Martin Malcolm Medgar [03:22.02] [03:22.81]Hampton Schwerner Goodman Chaney [03:24.74] [03:25.65]Sayin the same things over again