Lord, spit on our eyes that we may see, how to wake up from this tragedy.

But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.

Water of life is gonna flow again/changed from the blood of heroes and knaves/Word mercy's gonna have a new meaning/ when we are judged by the children of our slaves.

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse, fashionable fascism dominates the scene.

Abu Ghraib, as bad as it was, can't be compared to what Saddam was doing to people.

Going to places like Honduras, Nicaragua, and various African countries you get to see very clearly what the cause and effect is. We finance the obnoxious elites in those countries and they exploit their people so we don't have to say that we're doing the exploiting but nevertheless we are benefiting from it.

Resisting the powers that be, we are keeping things from getting worse than they otherwise might be. And that effort is very much worthwhile.