Until It Happens to You

You walk past an activist, who is talking on the street About political prisoners, locked up in your own home state And you think just for a minute, you think just a second Then you say, "That can't be true! Cause I live in the land of the freedom... Where no one gets the screw! " You turn your face, you turn your back You say, "That can't be true!" You stay safe lost in your prefab world Cause you're sure it won't happen to you You're sure it won't happen to you Just wait till it happens to you! You've heard it every day, since the first day of your life But you never stopped to think, what you heard was full of lies You can't think just for a minute, can't think just for a second Cause you're nothing but a tool Whose thoughts are tailored and fashioned Each night by the evening news You turn your face, you turn your back You say, "That can't be true!" You stay safe lost in your prefab world Cause you're sure it won't happen to you You're sure it won't happen to you Just wait till it happens to you! You could stand on the street, talk 'til you're blue in the face And they would not make you stop, cause you have no power base But if Dan Rather got on the Evening News And said, "It's time for revolution!" The F. B. I. Would fuck him up so bad He'd wish he wasn't living! They call it America, "land of the free, home of the brave" And they call it America, "land of the free, home of the brave" Yeah they call it America, "land of the free, home of the brave" More to the truth it's a murderer, it's the land of the Enslaved! You turn your face, you turn your back You say, "That can't be true!" You stay safe lost in your prefab world Cause you're sure it won't happen to you You're sure it won't happen to you You're sure it won't happen to Sure it won't happen Sure it won't happen to you!