We get car jacked in L.A.
Mugged in New York
Kidnapped in Mexico

 

then sold to the sex trade in Albania
we hand pick coco leaves for cocaine in Columbia
and for diamonds...

 

cut the hands of little children in Sierra Leone.
We are victims of the holocaust in Germany
We are the ones being culturally cleansed in Rwanda.

 

you see pain is pain
             suffering is suffering
             murder is murder

 

whether Liberia or Siberia
we point our fingers at them
when its us killing us

 

for we are raising raising school shooter in Columbine
     we are the ones raising suicide bombers in
Palestine
     

     we are Jewish made missiles
               melting Muslims bodies at the Gaza
strip

 

for we kill in the name of God
                                       Allah
                                       Jesus

 

we kill for the sake of communism
                                  fascism
                                  capitalism

 

we bleed for what we believe in

 

see everybody wants to play the part of the martyr
but somebody has to be wrong

 

yet still we sing our songs of liberation
trading in one tyranny for another
then calling it a revolution

 

we slice ourselves at the wrists
then try to bandage it with the constitution

 

but no piece of paper can stop the bleeding.
2008 presidential election will stop the bleeding

 

for a politicians true mission is to get paid
whether republican or democrat
their nothing but aristocrats looking to getting
paid

 

fox news and newsweek propose nothing but propaganda
...just to get paid

 

and eat it like babies being taught to feed from the
tit

 

but one day when your children don't have enough food
to eat
      one day when the military is rolling upon your
street
      one day when the dogs are barking at your ankles
                                                water
hose at your back
                  

                   when suburbia is burning
                   when the stock market crashes
                   when the club closes
                   when the drugs just aren't enough

 

      one day. when your in a concentration camp

 

not for being just Jew or gentile
                           black or white
                           gay or straight
                           young or old
                           rich or poor

 

but for simply breathing...

 

that's when you'll realize we all need a change
that's when you'll realize we're still do for a
revolution...
that's when you'll realize our hearts are still
bleeding for freedom

 

 

 

"We Are... Searching For... " is by Filmore Johnson. Copyright © 2006 by Filmore Johnson.
Used by permission of author. All rights reserved. Performed by Quentin “Q” Talley and Filmore Johnson.