But She Was Not Flying

I'm going home to see the king He's gonna take my pain away I'm gonna see my friends again If only I can make it in But there's a lizard With a human face He says he's standing For democracy And every wealthy man Has earned his place As did the undeserving In their poverty He told my brother That he wasn't a man He broke my sister down Again and again His fathers stole And wrote the laws of the land And now he flips the coin of power With all of his friends Deciding who is fit To go out and die And who is black enough To be left behind And who will model Their exceptional lie And just how many they can Murder at the borderline I knew a woman With a scale in her hand They bound and gagged her With the lies of the land She couldn't tell What she was measuring So they tilt the scale To meet their own personal ends Saying, "I'll shoot your son If he's out of line" "I'll rape your daughters Underground where I hide" "And I can murder Anytime that I like" "Cause I'm protected At my left and my right" "I got a side that says I'm only a man" "Another side that puts The gun in my hand" "I'll trade your product Of environment" "For any alibi for consequence."