Eye For an Eye

Excuse me Mr. Officer
Your foot is on my neck
It's not a handgun it's the wallet
That you asked for, did you forget?

What's the point in reasoning
When training don't do a thing
Someone's child is lying dead
You get an empty warning

The media parades
The people do as well
But the fizzy drinks and the balloons
Are molotovs and mortar shells

Set fire to the precinct
Flip all their pretty cars
Then onto the politicians
And then the movie stars

Because when everyone forgets
That's when they have their day
Gathered 'round the round table
They toast a chardonnay and they say

"Oh well
It doesn't matter anyway
The people are expendable
No one should miss them anyway"
It's not a write off
It's another humans life
We fight against the tyranny
Tooth for tooth and eye for eye
Tooth for tooth and eye for eye

Excuse me, Mr. Senator
What is your little game?
Ignore the voices of the people
You took this job for your own gain

So my apologies for not
Showing you respect
But what have you ever done for me
Then put our country into debt?

Send children off to war
For values they don't even hold
But the money's too damn good
Even if you go home wrapped in oak

While people are getting shot
You pour some of your own
Poor folk in the desert sand
Rich pigs on a gilded throne

So let's spit roast the swine
And feed all the unhomed
We're the change we need to see
We stand as one ignore when they say

"Oh well
It doesn't matter anyway
The people are expendable
No one should miss them anyway"
It's not a write off
It's another humans life
We fight against the tyranny
Tooth for tooth and eye for eye
Tooth for tooth and eye for eye
Tooth for tooth and eye for eye

They say "Oh well
It doesn't matter anyway
The people are expendable
No one should miss them anyway"
It's not a write off
It's another humans life
We fight against the tyranny
Tooth for tooth and eye for eye
Tooth for tooth and eye for eye