You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train

Governments lie all the time

Well not just the American government

It's just in the nature of governments

Well they have to lie

And since they all represent the people

In some sense they act against the

Interest of the people

The only way they can hold power is

If they lie to the people

You don't know what I know

You can't see the spreading state

Of deception I am cruel to myself

Things will never be the same

If they told people the truth

They wouldn't last very long

I will hold my silence like a weapon in my hand

If I used it I would murder myself

You could never understand

Columbus came ashore greeted with nothing but niceness

Sailing west in attempt to find gold and spices

Dominated by the popes in frenzy for ices

The Catholic church expelled Jews and

Claimed it was righteous

The first man to see land would get a reward

And get a yearly pension for life clearly from God

A young sailor saw land said We isn't far

Columbus lied said he saw it the evening before

They touched ground they were greeted by the Arawak

Columbus had them locked up as prisoners in an hour flat

He wanted to find their source of gold and that was that

And when they thought that wasn't fair

Then he stabbed their back

When there's no more gold he took slaves instead

And left a quarter million Indians in Haiti dead

The men died in mines the women died at work

The children died from lack of milk

And they died in the dirt

They were just taking advantage of a passive people

They were just being the savages of massive evil

That's the church work that's the path of massive ego

That's the blood of Abraham being stabbed by the steeple

In 1619 they were patiently waiting

For a ship that carried slaves

That was changing the nation

The white man was the cannibal praying to Satan

Hatred contempt a pity of patronization

That's the corner stone everything racism based in

The African had a more advanced civilization

Black was slave master was white rationalization

50 million dead that's Western civilization

At first they appeared in the North

And they were helpless in the face of superior force

And all of them were chained together

They really was lost

Racism is a natural that's merely divorced

Before the slave trade black was considered distasteful

By the Oxford dictionary I find it disgraceful

It's not a natural tendency to be bitter and hateful

It's the natural enemy of the critical stable

Slavery grew as the plantation system grew

The reason for that's kinda easily traceable

Society of helpless dependence was capable

Of saying **** a slave master you're in slavery too

Seven slaves was put to death for murdering master

Fear of slave revolt had them developing faster

You a cataline killer ineloquent bastard

I would burn the white man while smelling the ashes

From time to time white man was part of the resistance

White indentured servants wanted no part of the system

King Philip's War showed that if people would listen

That they can maybe break

The complex chain of oppression

Tyranny is tyranny but that's a concession

But the women they was treated

Like that of possessions

Black women had it worse cause they was abused

That's the white justification of Aryan blues

The next move was to dominate the Mexicans

James Polk dominated them like they was next of kin

He sent Colonel Cross to lie to them and let them in

11 days later his skull was crushed so message sent

We take nothing by conquest that was the mantra

The military wasn't human they was just monsters

Henry David Thoreau refused to pay his taxes

Denounced the Mexican War and got locked in shackles

The twentieth century opened anger reemerged

The reality of ordinary life was being heard

Anarchists and feminists came from factory work

Communism socialism seemed to be re-birthed

War is the health of the state is what Bourne said

And if you was born around that time you was born dead

The Espionage Act had people confused

Cause it was double talk and

They didn’t know how it’d be used

Supposedly it was an act against buying

Dubois knew that that was ******** and they was lying

Charles Schenck was arrested in Philadelphia

For printing and distributing leaflets

Cause they was helping ya

He was indicted tried and then found guilty

And spent six months in jail don’t that sound silly

Had his freedom taken away by his own nation

But there’s a lesson do not submit to intimidation

The act still exists today and the **** is real

Supposedly Kennedy tried to have that **** appealed

Eugene Debs did ten years for no purpose

He obstructed the recruiting and enlistment service

The post office started taking mail privileges

Of magazines who printed anti-war sentiments

A Socialist named Fairchild had it right

He said that they can shoot me

But they can’t make me fight

They sentenced him to a year in jail

And that was reckless

65 000 men conscientious objectors

They were sent to army bases to work there

They were treated sadistically and were hurt there

They were strangled with the hemp rope til they collapsed

And officers punched they stomach and they lower back

A garden hose was placed on they face with a nozzle

About six inches from them so they couldn’t swallow

The war ended in nineteen hundred and eighteen

The government was just trying to wipe the slate clean

Hemingway wrote Farewell to Arms

Dalton Trumbo wrote Johnny Got His Gun

The war was over but they didn’t learn they lesson

Twin tactics of control reform and repression

The patriotic fervor of war had been invoked

That’s why the country

That you live in is a ******* JOKE

You cannot be neutral on a moving train

This is a story about the lies

That your teacher told you

This is real actual factual

No lies in the whole record

If you don’t believe me look it up

I’m trying to share the ****

That I learned with y'all

Do the knowledge

Your government does not care about you

The people in power do not care about you

Understand that

Power to the people