Testi musica - Brett Dennen - So Much More - I Asked When

 

 

 

 

 

Well I dreamed I went out a wanderin'
I heard promises become fables forgotten
I saw bridges stretchin' out across the water
and towers pushing taller

I knew my reality was clearly defined
by the fences put up around my mind
I watched them thicken into walls over time
taller than any boarder line
I saw civilizations deemed insignificant
I saw people's history tatooed on their skin
I saw families taken from their land
dynasties shattered and stolen

and I asked when... is a revolution
I asked when... is a revolution

in all the burdens of centuries accrue
that get passed along to every generation's youth
and all the allegories told in lieu of truth
I watched them grow wild and spread like the flu

I saw the rise of an untamed industry
I watched machines paint a paper economy
I saw my own self stand right in front of me
and I didn't do a thing

I saw poisons pushed in the street
and prescription pills mingling in the mezzanine
with a whole host of wealth of doctors and pharmaceutical companies
still poor people were dying from disease

and I asked when... is a revolution
I asked when... is a revolution
I asked when... is a revolution
I asked when... is a revolution

and I broke down at the break of dawn
I saw new meaning in the clouds above the Pentagon
as real as the hollocaust as stong as the Parthanon
visions of Sudan Iraq and Vietnam

I stood silent upon a flooded levy
and stared at the ruins of a merchant city
and the president who came to dine with the noble elite
he didnt do a thing

I saw three ships come sailing in
through the passage of the CARIBBEAN
I saw children coming home in coffins
millions marching on washington

and I asked when... is a revolution
I asked when... is a revolution
I asked when, when... is a revolution
I asked when... is a revolution