But She Was Not Flying
Algiers

I'm going home to see the king

He's gonna take my pain away

I'm gonna see my friends again

If only I can make it in

But there's a lizard

With a human face

He says he's standing

For democracy

And every wealthy man

Has earned his place

As did the undeserving

In their poverty

He told my brother

That he wasn't a man

He broke my sister down

Again and again

His fathers stole

And wrote the laws of the land

And now he flips the coin of power

With all of his friends

Deciding who is fit

To go out and die

And who is black enough

To be left behind

And who will model

Their exceptional lie

And just how many they can

Murder at the borderline

I know a woman

With a scale in her hand

They bound and gagged her

With the laws of the land

She couldn't tell

What she was measuring

So they tilt the scale

To meet their own personal ends

Saying, I'll shoot your son

If he's out of line

I'll rape your daughters

Underground where I hide

And I can murder

Anytime that I like

Cause I'm protected

At my left and my right

I got a side that says

I'm only a man

Another side that puts

The gun in my hand

I'll trade your product

Of environment

For any alibi for consequence.

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