Trail of Tears - Louis Logic

Deep in the cold, cold snow of the Inuit, an Eskimo

Wrapped in Old Man Winter’s (knit and?) left alone

You hear the cry of the innocence when supplies were endangered

The eyes of a stranger see a tribe that was infantless

In China and India’s earth

You learn the value of what women are worth

When you dig in the dirt

They say a million children a year born female

Are given at birth

They keep males, that’s tradition at work

We fail to admit to that

Like it’s less than important

And try forgetting the orphans

Who never get coffins

Detail fades away its perception distortion

It’s still taking place, it’s called sex-selective abortion

I stay awake when I’m resting in Boston

Cause I’m writing there a nightmare of epic proportions

On a real clear night, the gavel’s shrill strike

Travels still from Gallows Hill if your ears hear right

In a fight for dear, dear life accused as witches

The dispossessed in fear died to fight a superstition

Despite if you’re a Christian

If someone claimed you tried this new religion

You would hang there after a night or two in prison

Or given to the pain of the flame, you died innocent

If you lived you were a witch, so your fate was the same

They changed up the name from Salem to Danvers, Mass

Ain’t nothing changed, you can’t get past the rancid facts

«Eeeeeeeeeeeeeverybody!»

«It ain’t fair»

«Won't you just look around»

«It ain’t fair»

«Can anybody see?»

«It ain’t fair»

«Order!»

In this the year of our lord, nineteen sixty-five A. D

After the draft captured a class of every guy eighteen and beyond

To free Vietnam’s warring provinces from the devious arms

And the fear of the horde of horrid communists

Johnson ships our young men to Da Nang, barely trained

He really sent them to hang, mostly too scared to aim

And there to claim vengeance against the senseless killing tally

Countless Vietnamese died at Lieutenant William Calley’s cold order

Both daughters and sons killed and carried to mass graves

They sprayed a cascade of mortar from guns

And when the horror was done, the same folks who sent

All of our sons to execute their souls ordered them hung

Traveling this pain road more than just once in bloodstained clothes

In a desperate search for one rainbow

I walk the Trail of Tears next to starving Cherokee and must say so

(We'd rather have been impaled with spears so that god would set us free)

But we persevered and tried to survive

So now whenever we drive on 95

Alert your ears to the violent cries

Of the thousands of lost lives

From a tribe that so strongly believed in the spirit of freedom

They died when confined

And since the mind was designed to keep off thoughts

Most cherished, we remember Cherokee Chief John Ross

Forced to watch his own perish, and so let us remember

The day that we forget this, we’re all lost

«Eeeeeeeeeeeeeverybody!»

«It ain’t fair»

«Won't you just look around»

«It ain’t fair»

«Can anybody see?»

«It ain’t fair»

«Order!»

«have you took some time.

to feel.

to feel what is real.

If you do.

then you’ll see.

that we got a lot … ««it ain’t fair»