Living in Reality/Oklahoma Song Lyrics
The children laugh, the old ones laugh
The newborn cry, the elders weep
The knowledge of infants and elders
Separated only by years
Adulthood lost to grown up fear
The only security being insecurity
Changing crying to weeping
The wisdom of infants and elders
Crying and luaghing
Weeping and laughing
Songs in the begining
Sung in the end
Endure
The people cry out
Tears of anger
Tears of sorrow
Flowing giving birth to resistance
Young ones to remember struggle
For the people cry out
Tears of happiness
Tears of joy
Washing the pain
Cleaning the spirit
Giving strength
The generations remembering the past
To rebuild the future
For weeping is another way of laughing
And resisting and outlasting the enemy
Living in Reality
Calling us red Indians
We have been the colors
On a chameleons back
Changing with time
Altering the larger pattern
Surviving genocide because we have to
Living in reality
We are targets of your unfairness
With warriors for targets
You create your own destruction
This is how we bring you down
Target by target you wound yourself
Using your greed we watch
Your spirit fade
Living in reality
We can endure your cages you bullets
Your lies your confusion
We know you have destroyed your peace
Living in reality you only exist
Diablo Canyon
Today I challenged the nukes
The soldiers of the state
Placed me in captivity
Or so they thought
They bound my wrists in their
Plastic handcuffs
Surrounding me with their
Plastic minds and faces
They ridiculed me
But I could see through
To the ridiculous they brought
On themselves
They told me squat over there
By the trash
They left a soldier to guard me
I was the Viet Cong
I was Crazy Horse
Little did they understand
Squatting down in the earth
They placed me with my power
My power to laugh
Laugh at their righteous wrong
Their sneers and their taunts
Gave me clarity to see their powerlessness
It was in the way they dress and
In the way they acted
They viewed me as an enemy
A threat to their rationalizations
I felt pity for them knowing they
Will never be free
I was their captive but my heart was
The memories of eternity
I was beyond their reach
I would be brought to the internment camp
To share my time with aliens
The last time I saw them
They were standing in their
Twelve hour shifts
Addicted to their chain of command
Waiting to be told what to do
Forgetting about me
Thinking I was just another protestor
They were finished with
Never understanding
I am not finished with them
For I am the resistance
And as always I will return
It took the times we didn't care about living
To learn survivors survive whether they want to or not
It took the pain the grief and
The dying to remember
What gets forgotten in the living
It took took the lessons of a thousand
Generations to get through the
Time of yesterday
It took the joyful songs of laughter
To last beyond today in to tomorrow
It took the fragrance of a woman's touch to realize
Brothers and Sisters are never alone
It took the joining of earth and sky
To create the centreing of the universe
For Ronald America
This time I almost wanted to believe you
When you said it would be all right
You wanted to end the suffering
And the deliberateness of the wrongs
Were only in my imagination
This time I almost wanted to believe you
When you implied the times of
Sorrow were buried in the past
Never would we have to worry
About shadows and memories
Clinging and draining the strength
From our souls
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This time I almost wanted to believe you
When you spoke of peace and love and
Caring and duty and God and destiny
But somehow the death in your eyes and
Your bombs and your taxes and your
Greed and your facelift told me
This time I cannot afford to believe you
Industrial Slave
Industrial slave
Capitalist and communist imperialist
Smiling with false faces
Beckoning us with their lies about progress
Wanting us to enjoy the rape of earth
And our minds
Industrial slave
Fork-tongue legalistic contract chains
Turning our visions
To techno-logic nightmares
National security war makers
Desecrating the natural world
And Gods still trying to get over what
You done to his boy
Industrial slave
Material bound law and order
Religious salvation
Individually alone
Industrial slave
Without Earth There Is No Heaven
Streets of gold
Angels wings eternal life
Corporate Reich nuclear regimes
Maximizing profit eating identities
Plundering natural allies as though
Earth is dead
Allowing religious rite collection
Plater tributes to church and state
With Christ still hanging
From the Cross
Echoing industrial war cries
Warring against body and soul
Attacking spirit
Lying to enslave with an illusion
About freedom
Without Earth there is no heaven
Earth and Sky universal power
Life energies creative flow
In which we are a pattern
To keep balance
Harmony a gift
An appreciation to enjoy
Honor life
Without earth there is no Heaven
