This is the Hill (Outtake)

This Is The Hill (Outtake)

Written By Matthew Ryan

Just go about your business

Just go about your lives

In a fog of constant car chase

Under gray metal skies

While there's a bomb in the heartland

And then there's trouble on the coast

And there's a very clean boot

On everyone's throat

The banks, the cons, the pirates

The inconceivable greed

While workers fade and howl like phantoms

And farmland turns to dust and ****

I was born in Pennsylvania

By the gas fires and river bank

My grandfather died of emphysema

In World War II he drove a tank

And I remember how his blue eyes

Got narrow as he spoke

And he said, "I'll take the enemies we knew any day,

Over the enemies you'll know"

And I remember at one time thinking

That the hearts of men are good

And if we should be overcome by darkness

We'll do exactly what we should

But then there was 9/11

And then there was Shock and Awe

And that ruthless empire up on Wall Street

Made peasants of us all

But it was nothing new

It had been building for a while

Sometimes I just sit and wonder

What happened to the president's smile?

Yeah I'm militant about the future

And I'm militant about hope

And I'm militant about reason

But these things are endangered you know?

And I'm passionate about us

And I'm passionate about them

And I'm passionate about education

and the human rights of all men

And I believe in glowing cities

An open window in every room

And I believe in brotherhood

So I believe in you

Well there's a growing hum of chaos

People dying where they sleep

With a flash of light in the dead of night

That's no fair fight

You can try to rationalize

But that's not war

And it's certainly not peace

Huh? huh?

This is the hill

This is the stand

This the last hill

So never again

So never again