Our Lives Our Time

[Verse 1]
Johnny was a chameleon when it was predominately shrapnel shrapnel from the chapel of the Katman
Johnny kissed the groom and joined the killin' while Britain is watching' her Watson
Headed down to the Tiananmen but had tarried enough time to listen to the world turn
Told me that the cheaters are watching scratch-ticket Jesus
Insultin' the Sultan

[Chorus]
We got an offer to lessen the lesson learned
Like kissin' cousins kissin' out of turn
But if you're gonna play you got to play the party lines
Oh we gon' take back this town if it takes us all
Hey kid, you look like you could be found
But for a moment we are the fault line

I mind that our time
Is still marked by the grains of intolerance
It's our lives, our fight
'Til we done, 'til we done, 'til we done, 'til we done

[Verse 2]
It's the United States of discrimination, the schools feed into the prisons
The corporations more powerful than the government
Give a teacher a banker's salary and see how that goes
See if we farm our land again, on Kilanmanjaro it snows
You sleep in your Egyptian linen 500 count thread what's the count on the dead
We are the eye of the needle, we fixing to mend this quilt of lies that's ripped up on our bed
We coming in quick and we got Angela Davis on our lips and Mandela in our head

[Chorus]
We got an offer to lessen the lesson learned
Like kissin' cousins kissin' out of turn
But if you're gonna play you got to play the party lines
Oh we gon' take back this town if it takes us all
Hey kid, you look like you could be found
But for a moment we are the fault line

I mind that our time
Is still marked by the grains of intolerance
It's our lives, our fight
'Til we done, 'til we done, 'til we done, 'til we done
And I lost my religion along with my innocence
Our lives, our time
'Til we done, 'til we done, 'til we done, 'til we done
'Til we done, done, done, done, done, done, done, well

[Bridge]
Well
At least she got her body
And he's a boy named Sue
The Federalists sure ain't no expert on love
Why would we listen to you
Well at least we got our bodies
We all a boy named Sue
And we'll fight 'til it's done, 'til the borders are run
Where there's gardens not guns, life is anew

[Verse 3]
It was fight night and the price fighter got cut like in a knife fight
It was all over the highlights 'cuz he got hit by a hard right
Saw stars like light bright, couldn't see any sight line, started this sky dive from the high life like Pele playing jai-lai
Shouted mayday, it was hay-day in the pell-mell of the melee
His coroner was getting' a pay day, needed Thompson from My Lai, turned his guns on his own guys, but it wasn't Molotovs and mai-tais, just AKs and white lies
Tell Mount Sinai to believe in I and I and you and you
And not in an eye for an eye and I ain't eyeing the cap on your tooth
Then again I ain't afraid of standing in your shoes
Just trying to figure out which golden rule I should choose
We're getting hind sighted by the tie guys
White collar crime pays, just look at the bylines
If you believe in anything believe in Occupy
Because it's a rich man's world and we're getting off the sidelines

[Chorus]
I mind that our time
Is still marked by the grains of intolerance
It's our lives, our fight
'Til we done, 'til we done, 'til we done, 'til we done
And I lost my religion along with my innocence
Our lives, our time
'Til we done, 'til we done, 'til we done, 'til we done
'Til we done, done, done, done, done, done, done, well

[Outro ]
I might let the gallery down
But there's people by the thousands outside
And we are just getting by
I might
Might let the gallery down
Depending on how many votes you buy...