Sound to Me

Lyrics

We know how to paint the flag With color-by-numbers intellect Loyalty was meant to be memorized for everyone And [?] at the age of six Churches are the morgue [?] Of the living How can one be dead and yet alive? If you want to communicate [?] You better get saved before it's too late Sound to me as one who cares Speak to me as one who dares Fight with me against a sterile death Talk with me, not at me Listen as one who wants to know The corporations back segregation And pay lip service to race relations If money is God, then the banks are the angels And Let's Make a Deal is more than a game show I walked alone on the ridge While the eagle soars majestically, out of sight And far below, the eagle would feel the tremors Of eighteen million people's restlessness Sound to me as one who cares Speak to me as one who dares Fight with me against a sterile death Talk with me, not at me Listen as one who wants to know Riding on the heels of legislation Our leader sings a lullaby to the dozy nation While the Pavlovian public sleeps He makes joking allusions to World War Three But in the midst of preparations and declarations Another starving baby died today If I find the Promised Land, I will surely show everyone the way Sound to me as one who cares Speak to me as one who dares Fight with me against a sterile death Talk with me, not at me Listen as one who wants to know Sound to me as one who cares Speak to me as one who dares Fight with me against a sterile death Talk with me, not at me Listen as one who wants to know