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Why Can't You See?

from s​/​t by TheBandFormerlyKnownAsFuel

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I, from a personal point of view, is what all songs are about, unless they're written by you!
So get off your ass and take a stand.
Stop telling me the world has done all it can!

Economic apartheid, strikes in the streets
The helpless victims of the profits of greed
Freedom. Equality. Words people like to say
Yet they close their eyes, thinking hunger just goes away!

So why can't you see?
It's up to you and me
Will we ever be free
Of such misery?

IBM, McDonald's, Exxon - one and the same
Monuments of excess playing self-serving games
In the land of inequality, it's not hard to see
So many turn a blink eye to the pain and poverty

When you look into their eyes try not to deny
When you look into their eyes try to sympathize

Why can't you see?
It's up to you and me
Will we ever be free
Of such misery?

There's no black, there's no white
There's no day, there's no night
There's no wrong, there's no right
But there is you

You tend to say from a personal way that the world's all gray
and that there's nothing that we can do
Make a self-fulfilling prophecy come true

Consumed by the world outside, lose touch with sincerity inside
Consumed by the world within, lose touch with the whole reason why

I feel I have the right (obligation)
To express in words this sight
Distinguish strong (specify)
Vision clarified of what's wrong and right

I ran 'cause I was scared, denied all out of fear
Innocence can never be rectified by closed eye that abstains
That abstains from existence
That abstains from being a participant!

Why can't you see?
It's up to you and me
Will we ever be free
Of such misery?

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from s​/​t, released September 1, 1990
Lyrics: Kirsch
Music: Allison, Arroyo, Kirsch, Stofan

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TheBandFormerlyKnownAsFuel Berkeley, California

Fuel was:
Jim Allison
Aaron Arroyo
Sarah Kirsch
Jeff Stofan

We met up in the Bay area in 1989. We found our community at Gilman St and the MRR house. We were supported by Very Small Records, Lookout, Rough Trade, Ebullition, Allied Recordings and Broken Rekids. As a footnote, we opened once for Fugazi.
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