Stating the Obvious Again

[mhatrw]

My friends are scattered all across the continents.
They're searching for the satisfaction they deserve.
Some of my friends have died in pain you can't imagine.
Now they're gone for good...
I've heard you tell the nation it's all their own fault.

Don't tread on my love ones.
Don't you even try.
Don't toy with our anger.
We've got the right to live.
Don't threaten good people.
Don't trivialize their lives.
Don't spit on our values.
We've got the right to love.

Pursuing happiness and thrills, we've taken risks.
We don't need scum like you
to tell us how to suffer for it.
You sit in offices and churches making speeches
while in the streets men with clubs and knives
are out enforcing your philosophy of life.

The Inquisition has just canceled for lack of interest.
Too many people would rather fix the holes
in their own roofs than fight a holy war.

Toss out what you've been told and you have to improvise.
You have to rely on your desires, your heart, your conscience.
I salute anyone who can make it through the night.
If others don't approve of what they see they can kindly
move away from the window.

Don't tread on my love ones.
Don't you even try.
Don't toy with our anger.
We've got the right to live.
Don't threaten good people.
Don't trivialize their lives.
Don't spit on our values.
We've got the right to love.

I salute anyone who can make it through the night.
Someday I will again, I will again, I will again.