Same Thing - Flobots

Somewhere between prayer and revolution

Between Jesus and Huey P. Newton

That’s where you find Jonny 5 shoot-shootin'

Water guns at the audience while you’re scootin'

Your gluteus max due to the fact that he’s tootin

On the horn, gonna warn you that I’m rootin'

For the other team in the culture wars

So I stab the beast’s belly as the vulture snores

Yo Joe, let it blow with convulsive force

'Til walls fall off their false supports

'Til Jericho’s aircraft carriers alter course

And all brave young Americans are called ashore

Cause we’ve already lost the war they keep wagin'

Splattering the streets in battles that keep ragin'

Bloodying each page of the story that we’re studyin'

Each day the same, just the names keep changin'

Saying the same things over again

Repeatin' the same slogans, we don’t know where we’ve been

We’ve been all over the globe on our government funds

Leavin' man, woman, and child dead, bloody, and numb

Saying the same things over again

Repeatin' the same slogans, we don’t know where we’ve been

We’ve been overthrowin' leaders with legitimate views

Democratically elected but we didn’t approve

How many times can the line divide?

How many wars to uphold your pride?

These fears uncontrolled just swoll the tide

Of blood in the streets while the people die

I’mma keep on tryin', long as sufferin' is multiplyin'

And why not?

These souls gettin tossed and left out to rot

My back’s broad enough to help lift your cross

As long as you help with mine

The process of healing will take some time

To see the pain in yo' face is the same as mine

It’s not a game or a race but the stakes is high

We maintain our mistakes for the sakes of sides

As long as it takes, I’ll say it one more time

As long as it takes, I’ll say it one more time

As long as it takes, I’ll say it one more time

Saying the same things over again

Repeatin' the same slogans, we don’t know where we’ve been

We’ve been all over the globe on our government funds

Leavin' man, woman, and child dead, bloody, and numb

Saying the same things over again

Repeatin' the same slogans, we don’t know where we’ve been

We’ve been overthrowin' leaders with legitimate views

Democratically elected but we didn’t approve

Same thing (U.S. is not us)

Same thing (And us is not we)

Same thing (And we are not satisfied!)

Same thing (We're tired of the same thing)

Same thing (And we’re ready to make change)

Same thing (Are we ready to make change?)

We want money for health care and public welfare

Free Mumia and Leonard Peltier

Human needs, not corporate greed

Drop the debt and legalize weed!

We say YES to grassroots organization

NO to neo-liberal globalization

Bring the troops back to the USA

And shut down Guantanamo Bay!

Who let 'em overthrow Jacobo Arbenz?

Who let 'em overthrow Mohammad Mosaddeq?

Who let 'em assassinate Salvador Allende?

I didn’t let 'em but they did it anyway!

Who let 'em overthrow Kwame Nkrumah?

Who let 'em overthrow Aristide?

Who let 'em assassinate Oscar Romero?

I didn’t let 'em but they did it indeed!

But don’t let them assassinate Hugo Chavez

Don’t let them assassinate Evo Morales

And bring back Martin, Malcolm, Medgar

Hampton, Schwerner, Goodman, Chaney

Sayin' the same things over again