[Hook] We fall down Testing sounds But were not down We test these sounds [Verse 1 Suheir Hammad] We spent the fourth of july In bed Even now Walking girls are exploding legs Stepping on shells of american hatred Left dug in Iraqi soil Even now Malaysian girls choose Between the sex trade And hunger Filipinas go blind Constructing the computer disks Poems like this are saved on Even now Lover as we lay In amazement And if Baby as you say My skin is the color Of sunwarmed sand Then youre my moonless night And we the beach Wet Tidal All that good shhhhh... Wet Yet as we lay Shrapnel awakens pain Courtesy of the Eighties gun craze To our generation Violence isnt a phase Its the day today And though my head is filled With your sweetness now This same head knows Nagasaki girls pick maggots out of stomach sores With chopsticks Hiroshima mothers rock headless babies This head knows Palestinian youth Dead absorbing rubber bullets Homes demolished Trees uprooted Roots dispersed This Same Head With all them love songs And husky whispers knows As we lay And love Our touch is not free It comes with responsibility Even as we lay In all this good feeling People lay in dirt Vomit Shit and blood And I gotta tell you That my sincere love for real Is for my peeps My family Humanity For real freedom Well fed Human dignity baby Even as I open myself to share this I gotta tell you There aint enough good feelin To push the pain and awareness out Not enough nothin to make me forget And I aint no woman of steel It feels needed This kiss That touch There that Rhythm Needed And wanted Now hold me A little while longer Just a bit Cause we gotta get up soon Theres a war on outside Come on now baby We got work to do [outro] To the flag of the United States of America And to the republic for which it stands One nation under god indivisible Liberty and justice for all! [Hook]
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