“Mushrooms & Machine Guns”
music by The Soular System
words by Rev. Desmond D’Angelo
copyright 2003
They wanna make a man outta u
They wantcha pushin’ buttons and followin’ protocol
They tell u that nature is poison + evil
And turn around and sell u cigarettes + alcohol
They say to watch your friendly television sets
And buy your uniform wardrobes at the mall
They say that ignorance is bliss, then don’t resist
Just close your eyes and have a ball, y’all
refrain: (Now we’ve sung these)
Songs of freedom, songs of protest
And songs of liberation
And that pacifist hippie shit ain’t got us nowhere, so how we gonna
fuck ‘em up now?
With mushrooms + machine guns
When that psilocybin gets inside me
Baby, maybe that can help me see
Help me see why, when I do the same shit as crimes the police commit
They suffer much less penalty than me
Boy, I got these machine guns, and I’m gonna point ‘em
At those who oppose my folk no doubt
But I won’t go kill people I don’t know
To save people I don’t give a flyin’ fuck about
refrain
I see these colors so differently now
The reds, the whites, the blacks, the yellows + the tans
They all just kinda run together now
All I can see is my fellow man
And in that man I see an individual
The only real way to ever truly understand
Who some1 is and what they’re all about
I’ll protect my land, bitch, but not the Plan
refrain