Wave the flag, wave the Bible, wave your sex or your business degree, whatever you want, just don't wave that thing at me.

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

We all grow up with anger. It's part of the human condition. But what do you do with that? It seems obvious to me that you've got to use it for something, but you have to separate it from your ego.

Politics is a part of life and art is about life. It doesn't mean that all the art has to be about politics - in fact, heaven forbid. But politics is a totally legitimate area of focus for any art, whether it's painting or songwriting or anything else, as much as sex is, as much as spirituality is, as much as any other behavior of people is.

Most of the time, our deeper, stronger feelings are things we all have in common.

And I'm wondering where the lions are.

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.