Lightning Is Coming

I brought to you dead roses
High noon on the fourth of July
I brought to you dead roses
High noon on the fourth of July
Couldn't be any other flower
Couldn't be any other time

Well your rockin horse is rollin
and your stairs are rotted out
Well your rockin horse is rollin
and your stairs are rotted out
There's a pair of sneakers hangin on your wire
All the  hype I'm beginning to doubt

The fence around your forest
Puts a hex curse on your kind
The fence around your forest
Puts a hex curse on your kind
If I'm the one wearing glasses
Your the one that's blind

I saw otter living in a tire
I saw poisonous food for your fox
I saw otter living in a tire
I saw poisonous food for your fox
I saw beautiful birds in cages
I saw dead dolphins spread on the rocks

And they tell you when your little
That God is watching from above
And they tell you when your little
That God is watching from above
They tell you he knows what you're thinking
You don't even got your mind made up

You know how many wars have been started
By Religion alone?
You know how many wars have been started
By Religion alone?
Millions of people lost their lives
People burned alive in their homes

I have seen the death camps
In Auschwitz from the Holocaust
I have seen the death camps
In Auschwitz from the Holocaust
And those ovens still smell like ashes
From the innocent lives that were lost

I'm surrounded by New York City
And I'm a cryin all though the night
I'm surrounded by New York City
And I'm a cryin all though the night
I'm disgusted by the fact
That money is worth more than life




Mean Mankind Blues

"Black girl, black girl, don't lie to me
Where did you stay last night?
I stayed in the pines where the sun never shines
And shivered when the cold wind blows"

Jesse James Jefferson