Until It Happens To You Lyrics

Until It Happens To You lyrics

you walk past an activist, who is talking on the street
about political
prisoners, locked up in your own home state
and you think just for a minute,
you think just a second
then you say, "that can't be true! 'cause i live in
the land of the freedom...
where no one gets the
screw!"

chorus:
you turn your face, you turn your back, you say,
"that can't be true!"
you stay safe locked in your prefab world, 'cause
you're sure it won't happen to you
you're sure it won't happens to
you!

you heard it every day, since the first day of your life
but you
never stopped to think, what you heard was full of lies
you can't question
for a minute, can't question for a second
'cause you're nothing but a
tool
whose blueprints are tailored and fashioned, each night by the evening
news

you could stand on the street, talk 'til you're blue in the
face
and they would not make you stop, 'cause you have no power base
but
if Dan Rather got on the Evening News, and said, "it's time for
revolution!"
the F.B.I. would fuck him up so bad, he'd wish he wasn't
living!

they call it America, "land of the free, home of the
brave"
more to the truth it's a murderer, it's the land of the Enslaved!