Colorblind: Songs and Lyrics

Songs and Lyrics

CONSPIRACY OF THOUGHT: Colorblind

01. Your Columbine (4:17)
02. Rebel Flag (3:52)
03. Splendored Thing (4:18)
04. Gone (2:54)
05. Structures (3:37)
06. Jacob's Ladder (2:43)
07. Cold and Plain (3:46)
08. Colorblind (4:31)
09. Dance Floor (3:08)
10. Seduction (3:14)
11. The End (3:55)

Your Columbine
Why do we got to be so mean
Another gray day in a hallway, child of broken stone
I see the faces with a thousand questing eyes
Another punk stands in a doorway, shocked I stand alone
I can taste the fear, I'm paralyzed
And I wont be your suicide
Your Columbine, Your tragic play
Another victim of another senseless crime
God grant me grace to walk away
Why do we got to be so mean
Another attack from a pack of pariahs in the hall
I step to the back and find my place
Now I secede the need to feed upon the hate
No demons breed, I let those devils slip away
And I wont be your suicide
Your Columbine, Your tragic play
Another victim of another senseless crime
God grant me grace to walk away
Why do we got to be so mean.

Rebel Flag
Sitting in a crowded room I speak in times of war
CIA is watching me a co-conspirator
I'm doin time
Silencing the ones that shine
I got ta make you mine, to be with you, be with you
You legislate
I rage against this state
In spite of fate, I want to be with you, be with you now!
And the poor will surely rise, And the hero's of the day
And half a million hungry souls take their dissent into the fray
We will fly a rebel flag, and we will sing a song of peace
We will march into the cities, a brigade into the breach
Novocain to numb the pain of life lost far away
Magazines and TV screens are leading us astray
I feel the need
Crawling on my hands and knees
I'm gonna bleed, just to be with you, be with you
How can I win
Shut me down for I begin
I'm gonna sin, unless I be with you, be with you now!
And the poor will surely rise, And the hero's of the day
And half a million hungry souls take their dissent into the fray
And we will fly a rebel flag, and we will sing a song of peace
We will march into the cities, a brigade into the breach
And all of this could change, and we could rearrange it all,
And make a new tomorrow
Nothing has to stay the way it is,
We could fly a rebel flag, and we can make a new tomorrow.

Splendored Thing
How long's it gonna take
Before the scales fall from your eyes
And you realize that he don't love you
How bruised you gonna be
Before you pack your bags and leave
Why don't you make some tracks before he makes some on you
You've forgotten how to kiss
Your lips have seen such violence
And underneath your tears something's ruptured
You stand with a confidence that I've never seen before
You stand regardless of the beatings you'll endure
LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING
How long's it gonna take
Before the scales fall from your eyes
And you realize this world don't love you
How bruised you gonna be
Before you rest in arms of loving grace
Why don't you save yourself some face
Rest in the warmth of Christ's embrace
LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING
And all I wanted was to feel the sweet infection of your love
Fists about my body, Tears like rivers flow like blood into the ground
Love is love.

Gone
I feel the breach beneath my skin, Our siege on Terror now begins
This metamorphosis is changing our society
Men start a fight they can not win, In brutal acts of blinding sin
A desperate plot of desperate men that would destroy our freedom
All illusions of the past are washed way
No one seams to understand that they won't stop until we're gone
Arranged in rooms behind closed doors, Erupt in acts of making war
The innocent are used as pawns are used in games of life or death
Our enemy has been well trained, In hateful spite and flight of planes
They topple buildings but they cannot topple what's inside us
All illusions of the past are washed way
No one seams to understand that they won't stop until we're gone.

Structures
All that I can see arranged by man
We uproot the earth to give it form
Adulteration of the land
God has given tools that we corrupt to fit our plans
Adoption of democracy creates a concrete tapestry
Violate the people and you violate the land
Can we see the beauty in the buildings man creates
Can we see perfection in the structures we embrace
In our institutions is there something out of place
Why don't people question all the structures they embrace
Adoption of Democracy creates a concrete tapestry
Violate the people and you violate the land
Can we give you freedom without the stain of industries
I believe we can, yes I believe that we can.

Jacob's Ladder
I'm smokin' pipedreams
And the scenes of better days
I see the rains fall down
Exploding in the haze
I'm climbing Jacob's Ladder
And all my bitter pills are swallowed
...And the race
For the shelters now begin
Shockwave percussive forces
Blowing on the wind
I'm climbing Jacob's Ladder
And all my bitter pills are swallowed
Shock and Awe, Shock and Awe, Shock and Awe, Shock and Awe
And all my bitter pills are swallowed.

Cold & Plain
I wish this cold would fade away
Light fingers pulling on my heart, suggestive whispering
I hear the telephone, it's ringing on and on
It wont be long before I'm gone
I wish this cold would fade away
Some times it's better when you think you can't escape
My disappointment, ebbing at the corners of my brain
Some times I wonder if it's you or me who started all this
I need you in my life
But I can't condone this pain
I wish that you could see me
Sweet Sarah cold and plain
I tied my conscience to a chair
And hoped it wouldn't notice that my body wasn't there
Some times it's better when you tell yourself a lie
Cause then you never have to cry
I need you in my life
But I can't condone this pain
I wish that you could see me
Sweet Sarah cold and plain.

Colorblind
One Hundred Fifty in the deserts burning sun
Black children dropping to the dust from whence they sprung
But nothing seems to satisfy their bitter rage
Trapped inside this ever moving cage
You walk One Hundred Thousand miles to me
But when you get there, I reject what I see
You do your best but it don't matter to me
Cause I deny what I see
Administrations say that it's too hard to tell
Is this a genocide, or a temporary hell
And while they squabble over rhetoric and lies
Darfur in Africa, another family dies
You walk One Hundred Thousand miles to me
But when you get there, I reject what I see
You do your best but it don't matter to me
Cause I deny what I see
In the background,
I can hear like a thunder, roll like a tank down Broadway
On the highways, and the byways, don't let those freaks come my way
Doesn't anybody really give-a-damn, No white love for the African
Bloodstained on your hands and knees, nowhere left for the refugees
One Love, One Nation, One Heart-Affiliation
One Race, One Tribe, One World-No Genocide
You walk One Hundred Thousand miles to me
But when you get there, I reject what I see
You do your best but it don't matter to me
Cause I deny what I see.

Dance Floor
Megaton, we bring a bomb to the dance floor
We sellin rockets from the desert to the sea shore
The power-pendulum stop, the proletariat rock
Proliferation, a treaty on the chop-block
An Intifada, a revolutionary intent
They wanna join machinations of our government
Another rouge state with uranium stores
Look Out! They brought a bomb to the dance floor
We drop a bomb on the dance floor
Get your body on the dance floor
Deals on! Halliburton to Enron
Check out the brother with a rocket and the silicon
Six Hundred and Sixty Six,
Corporation Politician like a rabbit with his hand in the Trix
Another white lie for American dreams
Another red war for political means
Another Nagasaki at the door
Look Out! We brought a bomb to the dance floor
We brought a bomb on the dance floor
Get your body on the dance floor
We drop a bomb on the dance floor.

Seduction
It sounds so good, so little work for so much bread
They seal the deal with sex-appeal, put visions in my head
And anyone who thinks they know what's going on here in the United States of America, had better open up their eyes.
I was quietly seduced by the Military Industrial Complex, in schools throughout our nation.
I feel the shame inside my brain I want to fly
I can't take much more of this I'd rather kiss this planet goodbye
And All I'm asking is that you not send me into harm's way unless the situation becomes totally necessary.
Yet ironically, it's not until troops are on the ground in a foreign nation that many will realize the brevity of our condition.
I see the colors in their eyes
Sweet children run from me into the night
Will I ever get back home?
I'm all alone...

The End
For our sons and daughters
Lord please stem the slaughter
On our knees in troubled times
Entire generations
Lost between the nations
Families emptied of their pride
No more condemnation
Of peaceful exaltation
Makes a burning in my eyes
I don't wanna lose my nephew
My cousin and my friends
Why don't we bring this to an end
(singin')
Why don't we end the war
Why don't we end the war
Let's end the war...
I see the sergeant walkin
Outside the door he's knockin
Tears start falling from my eyes
A broken heart surrendered
Can fill a silent night
No one can make this wrong turn right

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