Matthew Ryan - This Is The Hill lyrics

Just go about your business Just go about your lives In a fog of constant car chase Under grey metal skies While there's a bomb in the heartland And then there's trouble on the coast And there's a very clean boot On everyone's throat The banks, the cons, the pirates The inconceivable greed While workers fade and howl like phantoms And farmland turns to dust and weed I was born in Pennsylvania By the gas fires and river bank My grandfather died of emphysema In World War Two he drove a tank And I remember how his blue eyes Got narrow as he spoke And he said, "I'll take the enemies we knew any day Over the enemies you'll know" And I remember at one time thinking That the hearts of men are good And if we should be overcome by darkness We'll do exactly what we should But then there was 9/11 And then there was Shock and Awe And that ruthless empire up on Wall Street Made peasants of us all But it was nothing new It had been building for a while Sometimes I just sit and wonder What happened to the president's smile? Yeah, I'm militant about the future And I'm militant about hope And I'm militant about reason But these things are endangered you know? And I'm pa**ionate about us And I'm pa**ionate about them And I'm pa**ionate about education And the human rights of all men And I believe in glowing cities An open window in every room And I believe in brotherhood So I believe in you Well, there's a growing hum of chaos People dying where they sleep With a flash of light in the dead of night That's no fair fight You can try to rationalize But that's not war And it's certainly not peace Huh? Huh? This is the hill This is the stand This the last hill So never again So never again