Sick of the dark ways we march to the drummin’/
Jump when they tell us that they wanna see jumpin’/
Fuck that, I wanna see some fists pumpin’/
Risk something, take back what’s yours/
Say somethin’ that you know they might attack you for/
‘Cause I’m sick of being treated like I have before/
Like it’s stupid standin’ for what I’m standin’ for/
Like this war’s really just a different brand of war/
Like it doesn’t cater to rich and abandon poor/
Like they understand you in the back of the jet/
When you can’t put gas in your tank/
These fuckers are laughin’ their way to the bank and cashin’ the check/
Askin’ you to have compassion and have some respect
Do you see the soldiers that are out today?/
They brush the dust from bulletproof vests away/
It’s ironic, at times like this, you’d pray/
But a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday/
There’s bombs on the buses, bikes, roads/
Inside your market, your shops, your clothes/
My dad, he’s got a lot of fear, I know/
But enough pride inside not to let that show/
My brother had a book he would hold with pride/
A little red cover with a broken spine/
On the back, he hand-wrote a quote inside/
“When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die”