Just Like Before Lyrics

by Ryan Harvey

Shit's changing
That's what everybody says
The war is getting deadlier
200,000 dead
Feds are getting scarier
All across the line
Homeland Security
Watching for a sign

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Waiting to strike
Pounce upon their prey
Any dissident citizen
Who dares to have a say
And now the Patriot Act is working
They just slipped it in our drink
Now we use it on each other
Scared of what people might think

Just like the sedition act
Just like the espionage act
Just like before

Everyone says Bush is different
The worst one yet
But I don't see their evidence
How quickly we forget
The bloody labor wars
The slavery of blacks
The funding of the Taliban
It goes way back

To the seems of this country
The Bill of Rights
The stolen revolution
The will of whites
Taxing the people
Stealing all their time
Launching wars to distract
Them from the real crime

Just like World War 1
Just like Vietnam
Just like before

The paranoia's growing
I've seen it in myself
It started in good humor
Now it's getting to my health
Just like the last generation
Who stepped out on the line
And were killed and framed and scared
But still refused to compromise

Friends are burning out
Tired of jail
It's hard to keep the pressure on
It's harder when you fail
Us, the orphaned children
Of a past reduced to myth
Forced into the future
Ending up like this

Just like the 1890s
Just like the 1960s
Just like before

Seems history's been forgotten
But history repeats
And the profiteers are poised
Up on the edges of their seats
Making billions off the slaughter
Lying through their teeth
Making billions from the arms-trade
From the the bodies in the street

Making whole stories up
To keep us all sedated
Knowing that we're dumb enough
To willingly maintain it
Just like every government
That burned the last ones books
They go back and edit history
And no one even looks

But it's our history
And we're living in it's path
If we wanna build a future
We gotta know our past
Or we'll just repeat our failures
And we'll watch our kids grow up
And they'll go through the same process
And they'll turn out just like us

They'll turn out just like us