Justified / Ballad of Blood and Apathy (No Guns/Screams) Lyrics

I've sat in silence for far too long

At all the pain passing by

I've always said that it wasn't my fight

But was standing by ever right?

I wanna help those in need

I wanna help them be seen

Victim of greed, Greenland is gone

Singing white snow's swan song

For too long and with too many

Wars are fought by the poor for the plenty

We'll march under your towers, day after day

To make sure you hear us say

Are you justified

In taking all that they own?

How many tears must be shed for you to

Just help them along?

I'm tired and worn out of fighting

And as I look it seems nothing is changing

Have I wasted all my life?

What could I've done

Who's to blame for their hunger and dying?

Because it sure isn't their lack of trying

Why must things remain the same

When all it's caused is so much pain

Their money hungry minds murder and mug millions

Making millions

While mothers try to make their children a meal

I haven't wasted my time

Only biding it

Finding out what you truly mean

When you want freedom of trade, not pay, not people

This land is your land

And your streets are mine

So I will take the liberty

Of writing our minds upon your walls

Are you justified

In taking all that they own?

How many tears must be shed for you to

Just leave them alone?

The scenes are unreal

Poor crushed by company zeal

To keep their high brow holders happy

Those in power

Double down and cower

At the prospects of equality

They have ivory towers

By owning broken showers

That they never waste their money to fix

They said, "Rent's due the first

Remember it can be worse

If you were working overseas for me"

So keep your head held high

And keep your eyes on my prize

Because I know your life has its price

Rights don't apply

If your labor's supplied

Out of big brother's reach

And in the end when you win

Now what will you gain?

Just being able to say

That you tricked them to chains?

But if breaking them free

From your corporate regime

Means breaking all the cogs

Of your murder machines

Then I'll rip and I'll tear

And I'll cut down the wire

Of the artificial fences

That your profits require

I'll just be martyr from the slaughter

Of commercial crusade

To put the public at peace

By keeping truth away

Parades and parties

Don't seem to catch your eye

You're even more apathetic

When your peasants die

So I'll put my message in your pipe

So you can just smoke it

And then we'll scream

Are you justified?

In taking all that they own?

How much blood must be shed for you to

Just leave them alone?

The great white kings of the concrete jungle

Build their castles far away from trouble

And you know they sold their souls

To the star spangled sinners above

We'll find the source of your wealth

And give you feeling of what they've been dealt

Are you justified?

In taking all that they own (Are)?

How much blood must be shed for you to

Just leave them alone?

You started a war when you needed more

And found a people able to be torn

Your business is finished and it's time to go

These plans of care are more than show

And it won't take too long for them to

Get their guns

We are justified

In burning all that you own

And if you take what's left of us

Then we'll have nothing left to lose

And as I rise from this wasted ground

And I see burned children all around

Children of God and children of Greed

Innocent souls lost from some poisoned seed

I can't tell if it's tears or if it's blood

On this battlefield of bodies and mud

For those not yet gone with shock in their eyes

I hope by cavalry (Calvary) they're not still alive

And as I draw my final breath

As we lay here equal in death

I hope my message found anyone, anywhere

But I know in truth our screams were less than a prayer

I never meant to hurt anyone

I'm so sorry for what I've done