Sometimes
Children cry on the street
They don't have enough to eat
Mothers wait for days to end
A hopeless situation they can't mend
Is it good for you?
Is it good for me?
I don't know how the world can sleep
It's just not right to close the door turn out the light
(Chorus)
They'd better be the ones you love
The children ought to get some love
If no-one else should get enough
They'd better be the ones you love
Daddy waits there in line
A little work he hopes to find
Something wrong with times like these
It's enough to bring
Last Act of Defiance
"The Last Act of Defiance" by Exodus
The second of February, 1980
began three days of misery
a scene of retaliation
epitomizing violence, horror, and vindication
Thieves, murderers, and rapists
inundated their prison like homicidal sadists
guards and convicts alike would pay the price
to them the electric chair
would look like paradise!
only degradation, torture, and cremation would suffice!
A sea of agony rolled in
like the coming of the tide
the more fortunate escaped the insanity
through suicide
the screams of the dying
would haunt the living to the grave
survivors of the riot
relive the nightmare every day!
The Last Act of Defiance!
The Last Act of Defiance!
With a never ending appetite
barbituates set them off like dynamite
eradicating informants
acetylene torches dealt the punishment
melted from skin to bone
the fire silenced their screams to moans
smoke filled the air from bodies set aflame
begging for mercy, but their words
were spoken in vain!
They weren't allowed to perish until they cherished all the pain!
A sea of agony rolled in
like the coming of the tide
the more fortunate escaped the insanity
through suicide
the screams of the dying
would haunt the living to the grave
survivors of the riot
relive the nightmare every day!
The Last Act of Defiance!
The Last Act of Defiance!
Guards they had taken hostage
were to blame for pushing them over the edge
their brutality would be their demise
like sharks in a frenzy they lashed out at their prize
when the madness had ended
the gore was too intense to be comprehended
no one explained the real reason why
for cruelty of a few
so many should die
They knew of the flaws, but stll insist the cause
was justified!
A sea of agony rolled in
like the coming of the tide
the more fortunate escaped the insanity
through suicide
the screams of the dying
would haunt the living to the grave
survivors of the riot
relive the nightmare every day!
The Last Act of Defiance!
The Last Act of Defiance!