I will not lie down
On the wrongful ground or play
While it's still a radical sound

Just to call a spade a spade
Dear friends, women and men
Please check my math once more

In the totality of all war's history
There's but one common denominator
The answer is in the intention

That lies behind the question
Put that on your standardized multiple choice
I mean, how's this supposed to look to me

But half of divinity
Out there trying to make harmony
With only one voice


You know I've got experience
Looking right past the obvious

So I know what is so big and so close
Is always the hardest stuff
For us to reckon with

The hardest stuff to know

Dear friends, especially the women,

Tell me are you up to the task?
Of turning the wheel on human history
At long last


The answer is in the intention
That lies behind the question

Put that on your standardized multiple choice
I mean, how's this supposed to look to me
But half of divinity

Out there trying to make harmony
With only one voice


I will not lie down
On the wrongful ground or play
While it's still a radical sound

Just call a spade a spade

Dear friends, women and men

What better time to face
That we've been looking for
The answer to war

In the wrong place