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by Charles Carreon
American Fight Songs, by
Charles Carreon
Charles Carreon, The Arizona Kid
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The
Revolution Will Not Be Capitalized: The Story of Che Guevara, by
Charles Carreon
False Testament:
Archaeology Refutes the Bible's Claim to History, by Daniel Lazare
Click here to play "Eye for
Eye,"
sung by
Charles Carreon
The sun comes up
on another day
People in a land they call holy
Droppin' bombs and burnin' families
Looks like it's just another stage
In our planetary nightmare
It's the human
condition
It's the human condition
Tooth for tooth
Eye for eye
That's why the whole world
Has gone blind
We waste the fruit
And eat the rind
Makin' hell on earth
In search of Paradise
It's the human condition
It's the human condition
Long ago in a
desert land
A tribe of herders got a bit too wise
They said, we’ll claim we are a special people
And all the men will get circumcised
We’ll make a deal
with God Almighty
Claim he gave us lands of milk and honey,
We’ll write a book of fantasy
And claim impressive ancestry.
And each
successive generation
Bought a slice of their deception
Claiming God was on their side.
From Constantine
to Martin Luther
Witchhunts to the Inquisition
Good had nowhere left to hide.
It's the human
condition
It's the human condition
Tooth for tooth
Eye for eye
That's why the whole world
Has gone blind
We waste the fruit
And eat the rind
Makin' hell on earth
In search of Paradise
'Cause it's the human condition
It's the human condition
Long ago, but they
wrote it down
He was born in a little town
Visited by three wise men
I wonder if they knew how it would end.
The chosen people
said he wasn’t theirs
The Roman ruler washed his hands of it
They hung him up where people could see
What happens to a revolutionary.
Skip ahead a
thousand years
His sacrifice provided cause,
For murder, theft and roguery.
Religious teachers
spread confusion
Creating madness and delusion
For they know not of the thing they speak
They promise us
eternal life
Deliver us to endless strife
And advocate a strong defence.
The years advance
But we regress
Humanity cannot progress
Until we get up off our knees.
It's the human
condition
It's the human condition
Tooth for tooth
Eye for eye
That's why the whole world
Has gone blind
We waste the fruit
And eat the rind
Makin' hell on earth
In search of Paradise
'Cause it's the human condition
It's the human condition
So stop your
worshiping of other gods
And bow your heads to each other
Take the gold from the priestly class
Give it to our children and mothers
Stop contributing
to our destruction
Let’s save the world for our children
Say no to the priest’s seduction
And put the Pope on welfare
Let’s try to build
a human future
Get rid of the mental cancer --
Life could have a fighting chance
A warning at the
vital hour
Could save us from the worst disaster
Change the course of history
Let’s change the
human condition
Let’s change the human condition
No more tooth for tooth
No more eye for eye
No more killing
In the land of the blind
We’ll eat the fruit and
Compost the rind
Make Heaven on earth
To hell with
Paradise
Let’s change the human condition
Let’s change the human condition
Let’s change the human condition
Now!
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