--arrest, arrest, arrest, arrest these things‹

seen too many things i'd like to forget - hope in a prisoner's eyes
seen too many things i'd like to forget - belief that manifests in lies
seen too many things i'd like to forget but i can't always ar-ar-ar-ticulate them all as yet
because there's some things that i believe that we just weren't meant to know or see

and i know that you know that we try to forget
as if the world outside will pretend with us as well
and i know that you know that we try to forget
welcome to the closest thing to this side of hell

seen too many things i'd like to forget - a border guard - knows he's your god for at least five minutes
while you die inside and wish you were not one of the not chosen ones
- the palestinian niggers of the middle east -
i mean would you want your children to conclude that they should never have been born with a genetic tan
or a different lan-lan-lan-
language is a whore we fall in love with and beg for more

i was never afraid until i realised that evil lives and breathes
outside of horror movies in the sound of the cock of guns on third world city streets
and i never realised that people even shot each other until i saw it with my own eyes

- my own eyes, i'd scratch them out if i thought for a minute it would erase my mind -

you see i'm not ready to believe
that people can read and not find funny
about the 'accuracy' of a 'smart bomb'
that lands in completely the wrong country

have you ever thought about
the technology that we use to kill?
Have you ever thought that there's a design and testing process
or do statistics make you ill?

because it was former u.s. attourney general ramsey clark
that pointed out that our sanctions offed over and above
one and a half million iraqis
before the first missile even hit the ground.

8 and 19 December 1998, Minneapolis, Minnesota.