Ben Zaidi’s Blues.歌词-Ben Zaidi

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my blood burns like diet soda

fizzing out on the ground

i wish it was my name on the hospital door

but that's not the kinda thing you can say out loud

the bank's foreclosing on grandpa's house

while a stroke peels the last bit of life from his brain

so we go to florida, me & my dad

to load up the car with anything worth saving

a mug & a lamp & a childhood map

my grandma is crying as we pull away

then drive up the coast & halfway thru georgia

i remember that i left the the home video tapes

what will the bank do

with the camcorder-caught childhood that ain't theirs

someone in a tie will look at it, say it’s worthless

then eat their dinner & say their prayers

but the truth is––

the longer you live, the harder it is to stay pure

i wish i wrote landslide by fleetwood mac

it scarcely left me with nothing to say

all i got here is this army of questions

leaving their bootprints all over my face

like, which war machine will i vote for ?

the one with the cross or the rainbow flag ?

which phone made by slave labor will i use

to call my manager & make sure i'm paid fair ?

we're never paid fair…

which killer cops will i pay with my taxes ?

which prison will i pave riding the bus ?

which drone bomb will kill which parent's child,

while bearing the names of all of us ?

& are there tides on our plastic island

will it someday wash on our shores ?

& when is it time to think about the sea ?

when it's up to our necks, & not a moment before ?

& you told me––

the longer you live, the harder it is to stay pure

the longer you stay pure, the harder it is to live

two ben's left home in 2011

one went to harvard, one went to heaven

first one got cold so he came inside

second one stayed true to his hill & died

i wanna throw my body into the river

i wanna build my house on an acre of salt

& hear no news, talk only religion

& forget that i’m human whenever i want

& i'll say––

the longer you live, the harder it is to stay pure

the longer you stay pure, the harder it is to live

the longer you live, the harder it is to stay pure

the longer you stay pure, the harder it is to live