I sit doing ten years for a gram of dope
Witnessing Johannes
Mehserle get probation for murder
I sit watching men starve to
death
Witnessing guards who can’t even alight a flight of
stairs
Because they’re too fucking fat
I sit in a country that
told me to stay in school
and educate yourself
In a cell where
they won’t give me a book
I was told in my youth to just say no
to
drugs
And now that I refuse their psychotropics
they refuse me
parole
They told me to love thy neighbor
like you love
yourself
and now I watch my country men shoot Mexicans
swimming
the border
I sit in the land of the free
rattling my
chains
waiting
I see the hypocrisy and the bitter twisted
lies
Do you?
I sit alone
7.4 million strong
knowing nothing
more than to carry on
nothing more than my country’s wrong
knowing
nothing - nothing’s at all wrong
Do you?
