Change Is a Sound
Album - 14 agosto 2001 - Debaser id 21035

sister
I won't let you go
I won't let them take you
into the silence of a past divided
brother
keep teaching the power
we only move together
away from the past that made us fall apart

I refuse to run and I will die
before I kneel in this life

systems
of profits we punish
with love as our weapon
and unity
unity rebirth in fire

I refuse to run and I will die
before I kneel in this life

are we crucified
we defend our birthright
equality betrayed
and every hour a voice is lost
but every rage defies the cost
embrace the whole world as your kin
truth to truth and skin to skin
begin

searching for an end to the bullshit reactions
another way to separate us
and end to the bullshit of separation
another way to keep us from truth

This is the moment when we choose to stand upright and direct
set the course of our vision : new spirit in the flesh
we see the rich man's law dem break the poor man's back again

dead eyed but unbroken

we see society's cruel mask upon the meaningless face
the arrogant false prophets of this human race
but rising to the surface hear the waters make the sound

dead eyed but unbroken
now

Are you dead eyed, but unbroken?
are you feeling alive in the dead world they've made
are you working for a promise?
are you working for a promise already betrayed
while the dreams of the nation
are just a weapon in our hearts now

we can defy the curse of self righteousness
no more cultureless emptiness
pull back to reach the moment where connection was lost
the greater the freedom the higher the cost

drink in organic insurrection cleanse the mind
mine the heart droplets falling faith and courage
and fire in our hearts rising to the surface
hear the waters make the sound

dead eyed but unbroken

minds once set to fight now rot bloodless upon they stem
to update the paranoia the media disguise the system with
designer clothes and violence regulate our birthright

dead eyed but unbroken
now

are we dead eyed but unbroken
yeah we're feeling alive in the dead world they've made
are you working for a promise
yeah working for a promise already betrayed
while the dreams of the nation
are just a weapon in our hearts now

colors on the tv they push the lie in all things
some of us bleed against this deception stays entrenched
did you start to believe in it
colors of the ruling class push the lie in all things
some of us bleed against this deception stays entrenched
did you start to believe in it

are you dead eyed from the sight of no future
and broken handed from working for a promise betrayed ?

we can disarm

Where are your heroes
underground?
do our egos block us out
from feeding the future
of this sound ?
where were you
when they passed out
the lotteries of birth?
complacency
conditioned to suffer
what's the price ?
what's it worth to us ?


No Justice No Justice
Anywhere Until We Put It There
No future No future
I don't care


It's not because I don't love you
It's not because I don't know
the time it takes to say goodbye
to find a balance of heart and mind


explode these traditions
live for what you love
not what they tell you to do
fight the poison minds
of the dead past
invading the peace
between me and you


so where were you when
they passed us over for
the lotteries of birth :
complacency
conditioned to suffer
so what's the price ?
what's it worth ?


we sing !
no. go put your words on the hills and
no. reject the boredom it kills our
faith in a future they shot and missed
our ways of expression :
a heart not a fist


we sing !
No Justice No Justice
Anywhere, Until We Put It There
No future No future
I don't care
Until We Put It There


Power
for one and all

We are not the images we see

I refuse to
follow the fashion to its end
hypocrisy
is killing me
on the rights of your wealth
I disagree
this puppets culture scars our tongues
with what's unsung
but we're not finished
we're not done
illusions of their fucking progress
are always fed to us
but innocence can rise again
redemption
a healing trust
from the depths of their false dreams
rebuilding, rebuilding
nothing for their war
nothing anymore

are we all guilty?
are we all guilty?
the greed inside me
waiting for our share

stand up now
rebuilding
nothing for their war
nothing anymore

we're all addicted born
with desperation, scorn
for hopes and dreams to mourn
the time we did not dare

(but it's not there)

stand up, speak out
to define a future

we live in silence pulling in
it's what we're in this for
gotta stop the war
we buy and buy hypocrisy
what are we in this for?
gotta stop the war

I refuse to
carry the flag of this country
of golden guns and cynics puns
as the rights of your wealth walk over me
from the depths of these false dreams
we're addicted born
waiting at the window
for the coming storm

we're all addicted born
with desperation scorn
our hopes and dreams to mourn
the time we did not dare
to change the future
and respect our past
illusions that are fed
are passing through
and they won't last

we are not the images we see

We see the billboard girl
the one devoted to ritual
standing in the rain
holding all of her pain inside


I know you're hurting now
but I can't point my finger at
the words I should or shouldn't say
anything
to take the pain away


to walk alone on the streets tonight
and fear nothing
to choose to love what we are in this life
and shine brighter
don't let the crosses and dollar signs
the symbols of man unkind
make you feel
that you're not real
all this time walk out
out of the shadows


we see the lines in chalk
the warning sign for where we walk
in the shadows of the cities maze
to try and fight
for better days


yeah we're ungrateful
yeah we're ungrateful for
holy books, religious men
values of beauty, original sin
all this time we unwind it
i won't give up, i'm not afraid


Resister go
as long as it takes
to reverse the hypocrisy
challenge the stakes
of safety and survival
at the heart
of women's voices
women's art


to walk alone on the streets tonight
and fear nothing
to choose to love what we are in this life
all that matters
don't let the crosses and dollar signs
the symbols of man unkind . . .
I won't give up
through all this time walk out
out of the shadows


if we take
our strength
to market
to trade
for their
ugly
beauty
watch us
grow up
to war
no more

This is a call
to wake
the sleeping army
dreaming for
end the fear
in our hearts
for the last time


a shared vision
love's transmission through
the hollow days ahead
a hope
for where we grow
when its over
and its over


it falls
it passes right through me
it falls
and you won't be mistaking me
it falls
inside us
inside
it falls
it passes right
right through me


and we find out
what will remain


one day
I will wake up to find
you've bound my sister's feet
to find you've tied my daughter's hands
and you are walling in her mind


we throw
our hearts against the wall
we grow
the will to make it


fall


so we are living in a five hundred year old
prison in the mind in the heart where they
take your intelligence and your faith is torn
apart by culture state and power come together
and they steal all the light inside of us
everything that's real


when it falls