What People Are Talking About
Will Paynter
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I was watching the news on the TV I saw another flag-draped coffin It's something I am starting to see, just a little too often American boys fighting wars on foreign shores That's what people are talking about That's what people are talking about Some have a little and some have not You know I'm getting by with what I've got Rich getting richer and the poor stay poor People in the middle they can't take the pressure no more White power, black power, fight the power, power to the people, people get ready I said people get ready to go to Zion That's what people are talking about That's what people are talking about Civil rights and civil war You got the war on drugs at your front door The FBI and the CIA They're looking for terrorists here in the USA Immigration and segregation The deportation of people from this great nation That's what people are talking about in my hometown That's what people are talking about All you Republicans and Democrats The election is over, what do you think of that Colored coded maps for red and blue states I read about it the papers I still can't get it straight The politicians they're playing their tricks They give you that same old speech and rhetoric They say vote for me, I'll grant you clemency That's what people are talking about That's what people are talking about Racial profiling and police brutality People living with HIV, man that's reality Gun control, abortion rights and birth control Televangelist said he's gonna come and save your soul He wants to tell you what to do He said God knows, he what's right for you He said Hallelujah, I said what's it to ya Can I get a witness? Amen That's what people are talking about That's what people are talking about Hurricane Katrina wiped out the gulf coast Flooded the queen of the Mississippi, hit the poor people the most Homeless people walking around on flooded streets They got no clothes to wear, no food to eat Oh the misery of poverty, it strips away a good man's dignity Just another American tragedy That's what people are talking about That's what people are talking about Nuclear bombs and nuclear powers I still can't believe they flew the plane into the towers They couldn't find the weapons of mass destruction Now the American taxpayer is paying for reconstruction Sex crimes and war crimes on prime time All of these things there a sign of our times That's what people are talking about That's what people are talking about Old men say that freedom is not free But it's always the young men dying in the war overseas Women dressed in black protesting at the Swarthmore train station They're protesting the war and the state of the nation Wouldn't it be nice if we could declare war on war So we don't have to have war no more I said wouldn't it be nice if we could declare war on war So we don't have to have war no more That's what we should be talking about Today That's what we should be talking about Thats what I say Too many young men dying in that war overseas gotta bring them back home Women and child crying ain't seen their daddy for so long Too long, too long, too long we're fighting this war Does anybody here know what we're fighting for Seems like it really doesn't matter anymore We gotta stop that war Stop that war
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