paroles de chanson What People Are Talking About - Will Paynter

I was watching the news on the TV
I saw another flag-draped coffin
It's something I am starting to see, just a little too often
American boys fighting wars on foreign shores
That's what people are talking about
That's what people are talking about

Some have a little and some have not
You know I'm getting by with what I've got
Rich getting richer and the poor stay poor
People in the middle they can't take the pressure no more
White power, black power, fight the power, power to the people, people get ready
I said people get ready to go to Zion
That's what people are talking about
That's what people are talking about

Civil rights and civil war
You got the war on drugs at your front door
The FBI and the CIA
They're looking for terrorists here in the USA
Immigration and segregation
The deportation of people from this great nation
That's what people are talking about in my hometown
That's what people are talking about

All you Republicans and Democrats
The election is over, what do you think of that
Colored coded maps for red and blue states
I read about it the papers I still can't get it straight
The politicians they're playing their tricks
They give you that same old speech and rhetoric
They say vote for me, I'll grant you clemency
That's what people are talking about
That's what people are talking about

Racial profiling and police brutality
People living with HIV, man that's reality
Gun control, abortion rights and birth control
Televangelist said he's gonna come and save your soul
He wants to tell you what to do
He said God knows, he what's right for you
He said Hallelujah, I said what's it to ya
Can I get a witness? Amen
That's what people are talking about
That's what people are talking about

Hurricane Katrina wiped out the gulf coast
Flooded the queen of the Mississippi, hit the poor people the most
Homeless people walking around on flooded streets
They got no clothes to wear, no food to eat
Oh the misery of poverty, it strips away a good man's dignity
Just another American tragedy
That's what people are talking about
That's what people are talking about

Nuclear bombs and nuclear powers
I still can't believe they flew the plane into the towers
They couldn't find the weapons of mass destruction
Now the American taxpayer is paying for reconstruction
Sex crimes and war crimes on prime time
All of these things there a sign of our times
That's what people are talking about
That's what people are talking about

Old men say that freedom is not free
But it's always the young men dying in the war overseas
Women dressed in black protesting at the Swarthmore train station
They're protesting the war and the state of the nation
Wouldn't it be nice if we could declare war on war
So we don't have to have war no more
I said wouldn't it be nice if we could declare war on war
So we don't have to have war no more
That's what we should be talking about
Today
That's what we should be talking about
Thats what I say

Too many young men dying in that war overseas gotta bring them back home
Women and child crying ain't seen their daddy for so long
Too long, too long, too long we're fighting this war
Does anybody here know what we're fighting for
Seems like it really doesn't matter anymore
We gotta stop that war
Stop that war