Ben Zaidi's Blues.

My blood burns like diet soda Fizzing out on the ground I wish it was my name on the hospital door But that's not the kinda thing you can say out loud The bank's foreclosing on grandpa's house While a stroke peels the last bit of life from his brain So we go to florida, me & my dad To load up the car with anything worth saving A mug & a lamp & a childhood map My grandma is crying as we pull away Then drive up the coast & halfway thru georgia I remember that i left the the home video tapes What will the bank do With the camcorder-caught childhood that ain't theirs Someone in a tie will look at it, say it's worthless Then eat their dinner & say their prayers But the truth is The longer you live, the harder it is to stay pure I wish i wrote landslide by fleetwood mac It scarcely left me with nothing to say All i got here is this army of questions Leaving their bootprints all over my face Like, which war machine will i vote for? The one with the cross or the rainbow flag? Which phone made by slave labor will i use To call my manager & make sure i'm paid fair? We're never paid fair... Which killer cops will i pay with my taxes? Which prison will i pave riding the bus? Which drone bomb will kill which parent's child, While bearing the names of all of us? & Are there tides on our plastic island Will it someday wash on our shores? & When is it time to think about the sea? When it's up to our necks, & not a moment before? & You told me The longer you live, the harder it is to stay pure The longer you stay pure, the harder it is to live Two ben's left home in 2011 One went to harvard, one went to heaven First one got cold so he came inside Second one stayed true to his hill & died I wanna throw my body into the river I wanna build my house on an acre of salt & Hear no news, talk only religion & Forget that i'm human whenever i want & I'll say The longer you live, the harder it is to stay pure The longer you stay pure, the harder it is to live The longer you live, the harder it is to stay pure The longer you stay pure, the harder it is to live