No Facts, No Stats

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South Africa

There will be no facts, there will be no stats

We can point and laugh and vote like that                                                                                             

There's dogs and cats and people too

We all eat treats but need different food

Power comes but truth remains

Watch your wall bend and break

 

Does it get you high to light up other's rights

or drunk to blur consensual lines?

While you snort the lines you use to divide,

do you smell the fear for people's lives?

Power comes but truth remains

Watch your wall bend and break

 

Consecrate your holy maker

Kill the Wall Street regulators

Think about that conflict later

Drain the swamp, but keep the gator

Power comes but truth remains

Watch your wall bend and break

 

Let's punish those who outnumber us

For getting rid of our faithless lust

Send them to the penitentiary that's filled with

Colored profits, not corporate greed

Power comes but truth remains

Watch your wall bend and break

 

When a black hood's up, you could be shot dead

When a white one's up, you could be the president

Deny you're in bed with the Russian men

Lie to the press who have the facts with them

Power comes but truth remains

Watch your wall bend and break

 

Artists dream about the irony

But hate seeing it become reality 

"The first black president gives the keys away to a man who's endorsed by the KKK!"

Power comes but truth remains

Watch your wall bend and break

 

You will die from sick, old age

While we will die from climate change

Like a dog that's been sick with mange

We itch and howl for better days

Power comes but truth remains

Watch your wall bend and break

 

"The election's rigged man, it can't be won!"

When we woke up,

"Boy, the west was won!"

The dean of the electoral college raised tuition without our knowledge

Power comes but truth remains

Watch your wall bend and break

 

Most of us, we voted blue

Most of us, we don't want you

We can thank the founding fathers

They never bothered to give us the power

That we think we have

Now that's a fact, Union Jack

 

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