SYMBOL OF WAR Lyrics

Now I got scars from your whip

If the hands are bloodstained

I can't acquit

Great grandma lived through rape and chains

You ain't walk in these shoes

You don't know my pain

Now You wanna wrap your flag around me

You want me to stand for the devil's song

You want hand to heart when the blue pigs hound me

I'm takin a knee when i hear that song

Yeah I'm takin a knee every time it's on

Yeah I'm takin a knee when i hear that song

Look

I pledge allegiance to myself

I pledge allegiance to the queen

That brought to me the rainbow and the sun

And to the children who carry forward the story of my flesh and blood

I pledge allegiance to the earth

To the energies and fabric of the universe

That are tightly sewn to the seams of my soul

But I have no ears to lend to nonsensical babble

Preaching subservience to the banner of Babel

I hold hand to heart for no rag

For no cloth of nations will I have pride

Especially for one whose stripes

Are stained with blood

And whose face is tattooed with genocide

I'll shed no blood for flying colors

Nor honor the hands that first wove them

My loyalty is a trait and service that is earned

So ready your urns

For I would sooner roll it up and let it burn

Than let praise sing

To create false Gods of material things

This dangerous pride

These colorful narcotics that are raised up high

Has billions so addicted to flag worship and lies

They willingly give their lives

In defense of egos

Becoming Devils brides

Not even heroin or crack has claimed as many lives

But we are free and encouraged

To overdose on these opiates

Free and encouraged to nod and lean

While bloodied bodies of thousands

No longer have the privilege to dream

Right now

Right now

Right now I bet someone hearing this

Is burning up with anger and hate

Furious at my sedition

Ready to deliver pain in the name of these non living

Inanimate objects

And I am not fazed

Nor will I ever be moved to wave

Or become comatose slave to any nation's

Symbol of war

Now I got scars from your whip

If the hands are bloodstained

I can't acquit

Great grandma lived through rape and chains

You ain't walk in these shoes

You don't know my pain

Now You wanna wrap your flag around me

You want me to stand for the devil's song

You want hand to heart when the blue pigs hound me

I'm takin a knee when i hear that song

Yeah I'm takin a knee every time it's on

Yeah I'm takin a knee when i hear that song