We're Dead By Then - Charles Manson

I think there’s something you might be misunderstanding

Nobody’s making this up, its already been made up

You made it up when you said «We'll be dead by then»

And you were right, we’re dead

We were dead by then

We were dead on the rivers, built the dams

We were dead in the fertilizers, when you did your artificial things to the soil

We were dead in the lumber companies, and the trains when you burnt the trees

When you burnt up the trees to run your trains

Sounds sane, cause you have been at that time

And how much more madness have you created since then, hmm?

So the judgment cries across the universal mind to speak

To say that

We might need

Your art

Not need you, it depends on

How much calculations you can formulate in your brain

If you have a mind at all

To understand anything

Other than what past pleasures have brought

Or pains have taught

Or things have added up zero

And you play someone off as a hero

And then, some soldier had to die

And bleed

On the ground

Brother soldier, brother love, brother life, brother arms, brother highway,

brother holy, brother soul, who looks out and serves god and in those dull,

dumb mind I find

Not an organized religion that holds my mind

Woah like the wine

Woah like the great

Woah like the holy self, tanks and wells

And pumps

Into minds that have truth