lirik lagu nathan bell (2) - american blues (for gsh)
a monk lights himself on fire in vietnam
i am watching our first black and white television
a monk burns himself to death in vietnam
and i get the american blues
a man shoots another man for walking down the street
as a black man in broad daylight
you can shoot a black man for just walking down the street
when you have the american blues
the governor watches midnight come and go
a man’s wage is to poison another man
so the governor can wash her hands clean of
the american blues
the lights go out in alabama and everybody waits in the dark
they don’t teach the numbers so they have nothing to count on
the lights go out in alabama and women are shackled to
the american blues
the men without sons and daughters call themselves fathers
the church rapes the children it is payed to educate
not a day goes by in this country that i’m not
a father with the american blues
men learn an honest trade from the war machine
then they waste away in the backwoods and prison cells
they weigh less than a few thoughts and prayers when they die
underneath the american blues
the tribe freezes themselves to the bulldozers
my car starts every morning in the dead of winter
there are people chained to machines everywhere
with the american blues
somebody built a fountain, named it the trail of tears
children laugh and run through the water in the sweltering heat
none of us have the heart to tell them the original story of
the american blues
we are taking our lives one day at a time
with bullets and useless poetry
soon we will be burning together in red, white
and american blues
burn, baby, burn
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