Let Love Rebuild This

Civil actioneers fill the streets with their Sanskrit tattoos
Telling riot officers that they’re just looking for some truth
Under the derbies and rubbles some answers have to swelter
Because the power structure has carefully crafted this shelter

Refrain from the defiling and let love rebuild this

Nothing is wrong with saying the government is wrong
As long as something is done to allow the sun to prolong
A littler glimmer of hope, a sunbeam, can make smiles stream
While the dark clouds of propaganda leave a teary dream

Refrain from the defiling and let love rebuild this

What happened to that happy place where folks could gather to embrace?
What happened to promises of prosperity and purity in peace?
Did the modern warrior lose his attention span?
Or was there something else left to be broken by his hand?

Refrain from the defiling and let love rebuild this

What happen to the course we all struggle?
Did the riot squads and beatings scare the people’s militia away?
Were raised fists and red stars put on the back burner for another day?

Happiness lurches onward to a place where ignorance is bliss
And I must confess I think I like it like this
Not knowing the reality of the human strife
Has let me ignore the wound in my back made by a knife

Refrain from the defiling and let love rebuild this

Flags, as always, and as they should, still wave
Because families are still proud to see patriotism draped over a child’s grave.
Pride is the ideal of what you wish you could be.
Change is the tool to mold it into what should be.

Refrain from the defiling and let love rebuild this

Listen to voices on the streets in the marches, even those who you refute
Only through dialogue can we reassemble a resemblance of our roots.
Apologize in your suits and ties for transgressions once committed,
Forget payments, acknowledgement is where the healing begins,
Never hide or shield your eyes from your brothers’ past sins.

Refrain from the defiling and let love rebuild this

With the current rules, nobody wins; we still preach love and practice hate
The pendulum swings both ways like the balanced art that is fate.
A smile and eye contact can go a long way to extend an olive branch
So set the doves free, spread your message, and receive carte blanche.

Refrain from the defiling and let love rebuild this

Nothing is more pathetic then the way we all forget it:
To the common cause is what we should all be sympathetic.
Ignore disagreements, selfishness, and childish trysts,
In the end all of our names wind up on the same list.

Refrain from the defiling and let love rebuild this.