Year Of Fire
LYRICS
It's Nineteen Sixty-Five And I’m glad to be alive, anyway Sitting here in prison No one hears a word I say
Things are looking up Long as you don’t look down Freedom riders coming Just trying to reach the underground
Two more years til the summer of love Thanks must go to the heavens above There’s no wrong way to do the right thing No matter what the fight may bring KKK sitting in the streets Bourgeois dancing to their protest beats LBJ’s in the Viet Cong Got no time for the war at
Home is getting outta hand You know it’s not your mother land White men using black men To fight the yellow man
For land took from the red man Just because they can Well they’re not taking my land Or my body or my soul This is what I told them Now I’m fightin' in this hell hole
Getting out of this fascist land Playing right into the Commies’ hands There’s no wrong way to do the right thing No matter what the fight may bring Maybe one day black and white Will make their peace get on alright Taking arms is the only way I know I’ll never see it in my day
They had to let me out of jail Couldn’t keep me down no more One point for the black man But the whites lost count their score
Nothing’s changed since going down As far as I can see I’m out of jail but I’m even less free