Not In Our Name - Lyrics - Saul Williams

Two autumns and I haven't changed enough. It's september 12th and the sky has fallen. the sun has risen. A city built to *** dimensions has undergone circumcision (eight days Under judaic law). Dear diary, I'm fiery. divine winds my friend took me back to the beginning When i swore it was the end. From the fiery depths found the ocean within. My pen/man/ship sails the strait through my lips. I'm hip to your games, hip to the science of war. Propaganda makes me fight but what am I fighting for? My way of life: beans and rice, give or take less or more See through the eyes of the poor. plus, i'm black to the core. Ignorance is on tour booking stadiums and more. The days of hitler painted pictures patriotic with gore. You raise a flag on a land snatched from bald eagle's claw and stamp the Symbol on your currency to finance your war i'm saying NO, NOT IN MY NAME, NOT IN MY LIFE, NOT BY MY HANDS, THAT AIN'T MY FIGHT, NOT IN MY NAME YOU FIGHT A WAR AGAINST TERRORISTS AND VIOLENCE AND TRY TO WAVE YOUR GUNS TO FEAR US ALL INTO SILENCE. NO..... YOU BUILT YOUR EMPIRE WITH NATIVES AND SLAVES LIKE THE TRUTH WON'T RESURRECT WAGING WAR FROM ITS GRAVE. We got brothers on the sidelines ready for the frontline. Tell me when it's my time We got women on the sidelines ready for the frontline. Tell me when it's my time. You won't put it in your headlines. people are we that blind? Do we need a headline? do we really? If we only see what they want us to see we'll only be what they want us to Be: fighting in their army! We pledge resistance Chorus Forward march!! They're closing in.... It's not about opposing armies. armies oppose the ancient truths of the Shamans ands swamis. It's not about retaliation your history of war does nothing more than scar Imagination.increased security. religious purity. Your blindfolded justice makes you trust in fortuity. Like it's random. it's tandom. *** you and damn them. you teach to attack And then question who planned them. You want to put me on your blacklist you can use my blood for ink Your communion to drink In remembrance of a nation that forgot how to think Hypnotized by your lies without even a blink. You want to put me in your blacklist.... In remembrance of the all eye seeing Big Brother RIP to the powers that be Overcome by the power of being