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!