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Rich man's war - John Trudell featuring Jesse Ed Davis
Rich man's war
Industrial streets, class lines
Money talks, turning language to paper pieces
Rich man's war, free man's society
Raging, violent insecurity
Nuclear man, nuclear woman
Unclear how to act
Rich man's war
Pershings cruising Europe
America, Russia
Governmental nuclear views
Industrial allies cutting the world
As though they cannot see blood flowing
Rich man's war
Central America bleeding
Wounds same as Palestine and Harlem
Three Mile Island in El Salvador
Pine Ridge in Belfast
Rich man's war
The poor, starving for food
Starving for land, starving for peace
Starving for real
Rich man's war
Attacking human, attacking being
Attacking earth, attacking tomorrow
Rich man's war
Thinking of always war
Thinking of always war
With machines for ancestors
New unborn generations
Chemical umbilical cords are only wiring
In your electrical progress
Human lives, burnt offerings to the god Greed
With lies for ancestors
There is no truth in some futures
Rulers of minds feeding next generation's souls
To the control machine
Sacrifice ritual for the proper technology
With isolation for ancestors
There is only the present
Bought by the credit material uses
Forging chains binding you to destruction
Compliments of your deities
The industrial priest
No more than neon flash
Trying hiding in neon mask
Have to face who we really are
At some point we had no choice
Distant star, distant light
In real world we are human being
In shadow of real world we are being human
Neon mask for neon flash
Distant thunder, distant cloud
Passions reign
Drenched in possession
What we take is hard to do
What we do is hard to take
Some ones are crazy or maybe we take turns
Dreaming about some kind of life we say
"It could have been different"
But it wasn't because we weren't
No matter what, it turns out the same
A lot of things we said weren't true
Industrial stories in an electric instant
Neon mask, neon flash, neon flash
Thing is nihilistic desires
Civilized gone insane
Didn't imagine it turning like this
Some things start good and go bad
Some things get bad and stay bad
Are we caught in between living a lie
Or not living at all?
Eliminated choices lost in dreams we let go
Memories we never got to have
Something else to think about
Waking up in industrial society
Surrounded by angry days
Going through motions
Of not being
Wanting the best but not expecting it
Surviving paid for in dreams
Feeling like a world alone
Serving god with the devil to pay
Feeling like something in no place
What goes on in hell anyway?
Thing is, it has to do with heart
We have to understand what hearts are for
Before we can get back to heaven or paradise
Or the power in our mind
John Trudell (February 15, 1946 – December 8, 2015) was a Native American author, poet, actor, musician, and political activist. He was the spokesperson for the United Indians of All Tribes' takeover of Alcatraz beginning in 1969, broadcasting as Radio Free Alcatraz. During most of the 1970s, he served as the chairman of the American Indian Movement, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Rich man's war - John Trudell featuring Jesse Ed Davis
Rich man's war
Industrial streets, class lines
Money talks, turning language to paper pieces
Rich man's war, free man's society
Raging, violent insecurity
Nuclear man, nuclear woman
Unclear how to act
Rich man's war
Pershings cruising Europe
America, Russia
Governmental nuclear views
Industrial allies cutting the world
As though they cannot see blood flowing
Rich man's war
Central America bleeding
Wounds same as Palestine and Harlem
Three Mile Island in El Salvador
Pine Ridge in Belfast
Rich man's war
The poor, starving for food
Starving for land, starving for peace
Starving for real
Rich man's war
Attacking human, attacking being
Attacking earth, attacking tomorrow
Rich man's war
Thinking of always war
Thinking of always war
With machines for ancestors
New unborn generations
Chemical umbilical cords are only wiring
In your electrical progress
Human lives, burnt offerings to the god Greed
With lies for ancestors
There is no truth in some futures
Rulers of minds feeding next generation's souls
To the control machine
Sacrifice ritual for the proper technology
With isolation for ancestors
There is only the present
Bought by the credit material uses
Forging chains binding you to destruction
Compliments of your deities
The industrial priest
No more than neon flash
Trying hiding in neon mask
Have to face who we really are
At some point we had no choice
Distant star, distant light
In real world we are human being
In shadow of real world we are being human
Neon mask for neon flash
Distant thunder, distant cloud
Passions reign
Drenched in possession
What we take is hard to do
What we do is hard to take
Some ones are crazy or maybe we take turns
Dreaming about some kind of life we say
"It could have been different"
But it wasn't because we weren't
No matter what, it turns out the same
A lot of things we said weren't true
Industrial stories in an electric instant
Neon mask, neon flash, neon flash
Thing is nihilistic desires
Civilized gone insane
Didn't imagine it turning like this
Some things start good and go bad
Some things get bad and stay bad
Are we caught in between living a lie
Or not living at all?
Eliminated choices lost in dreams we let go
Memories we never got to have
Something else to think about
Waking up in industrial society
Surrounded by angry days
Going through motions
Of not being
Wanting the best but not expecting it
Surviving paid for in dreams
Feeling like a world alone
Serving god with the devil to pay
Feeling like something in no place
What goes on in hell anyway?
Thing is, it has to do with heart
We have to understand what hearts are for
Before we can get back to heaven or paradise
Or the power in our mind
John Trudell (February 15, 1946 – December 8, 2015) was a Native American author, poet, actor, musician, and political activist. He was the spokesperson for the United Indians of All Tribes' takeover of Alcatraz beginning in 1969, broadcasting as Radio Free Alcatraz. During most of the 1970s, he served as the chairman of the American Indian Movement, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.