singing in your libraries,
chanting ‘justice’ in your courtrooms.
scrawling liberty on the walls
and floors of your Senate,
unlocking prison doors,
bringing seed to your fields.
hauling bodies from your mines,
bringing doubt to your classrooms.
taking your girls from the corners,
sending them back to their homes.
disarming your soldiers,
and feeding your hungry!
i extend the holy hand,
that is common and covered with dirt!
with your dust covered boots,and your old flop hat.your rusted stringsringing out freedomfor all to hear…your words exposing fascists….your heart free as the sky…Woody Guthrie,tell me which way to turn….those dust covered roadsfilled with the lost again…aint no more trains to hop,aint no work to find….and the armed thugs are comingto take us away…Woody Guthrie,tell…
cause mercy’s just a prayer,and justice is blindgive what you gotmore than hope can allownothing more importantthan right here and nowhe’s a joker, he’s a clown,he’s a fighter, he’s a man.sell his soul to protect you,got his heart in his handswide open, and looking fora bullet to the head…when you stand, dont back downsomebody gonna…
i take you, without asking,without caring, wherewe’ve been, or whose dusti brush from your lips.my own hands are bruised,and bloodied… my own demonslocked in their cage…i am only a man,you, a woman…and this love, the only warworth fighting in a worldof darkness, in thistime of need!
went stomping with elephantsthrough you darkest jungles.stood between you and the gun!walked barefoot in your snows,sat imprisoned in your cell.made the leap, and dared to fly,wiped the tears from your face.built a home for your heart,with human hands and sweat….bandaged your wounds,took your curse…how is it then…that love conquered me?
white, black, Hispanic,Asian, and Arabic…chains an offenseto all that breathe…one cannot be freewithout the other!there are no illegal people,or invented people…the least worth as muchas the most powerful.put down your fat bellied guns,and your patriotic rhetoric…all are created in the imageof the eternal!
sheds the skin,comes out of the shell….leaves the firelit cave,for the darkness,and shadows’ whisperamong the trees….takes the kiss of windover the door well latched….jumps from the ledgenever knowing how deepor how cold the water below!walks the forbidden mile,fights the battle already lost,with the conviction of desire….brushes the nipple with fingerspiano key walking…..almost kissing with fingertipswell…
