Now you want us

    To cry your tears for you

    After we''ve already bled for you

    Already been dead to you

    Now you want us

    To cry your tears for you

    Chapters of a democracy story

    Descendants of genocide

    Twelve score and more years ago

    We went from being the majority

    To being the smallest minority

    Now you want us

    To cry your tears for you

    We saw that emptying

    Early morning skyline

    Back through that horizon

    Duck Valley 1979, Wounded Knee

    Sand Creek, that Trail of Tears

    Exactly how did our land

    Become your country

    Now you want us

    To cry your tears for you

    While we''re still crying tears of our own

    With your past as your future

    That industrial ruling class

    Using religion as a weapon

    Distilling love into hate

    Pointing fingers and name calling evil

    Sacrificing lives and blood

    Making the innocent the new v.i.r.g.i.ns

    Offering to the gods of profit

    Now you want us

    To cry your tears for you

    In the homeland security

    Pretending corporate corruption

    Isn''t economic terrorism

    Money talks while the government listens

    Compiling files on ones who think different

    Conditioning an acceptance of debt

    And not to expect the truth

    So get used to hearing the lie

    Now you want us

    To cry your tears for you

    Misusing the beauty

    Turning freedom into a killing machine

    Mass murdering the environment

    Weaponizing the psychology of fear

    And pushing material addiction with

    A substitution of rules faking the law

    The bill of rights becomes collateral damage

    Making the constitution another broken treaty

    Now you want us

    To cry your tears for you

    Way this story is unfolding

    We may end up crying together

    As in crying at the same time

    But we''re short on tears to cry for you

    With all these tears to cry of our own

    Now you want us

    To cry your tears for you

    By John Trudell