Onslaught Lyrics - Travelers & Thieves - Blues Traveler

Lies, well they're okay 

More elaborate every day 

Truth, well it's here too 

What can you make it do for you? 

Greed, it's just a drive 

Do what you can to stay alive 

Peace, it's just a dream 

So rock and roll and kick and scream 

Now won't you tell me if you like what you've just heard? 

And if you think the point I'm driving at absurd 

Well, there's no need to tell me how or tell me why 

But I need to know the reason not to try 

'Cause if you look around you might just feel like me 

And you might notice, no one was ever really free 

And maybe, just maybe for now that's how it's supposed to be 

Could be so far we've only earned the right to barely see 

The poison has infected you 

Have no fear, I'm infected too 

War, they come and go 

No telling where the wind will blow 

Pain was always there 

Sad reminder that you care 

Hate, the price you pay 

For thinking you got the only way 

Now won't you tell me if you like what you've just heard? 

And if you think the point I'm driving at absurd 

Well, there's no need to tell me how or tell me why 

But I need to know the reason not to try 

'Cause if you look around you might just feel like me 

And you might notice, no one was ever really free 

And maybe, just maybe for now that's how it's supposed to be 

Could be so far we've only earned the right to barely see 

Barely see, barely see, barely see, barely see, let's see 

For your parents Ellis Island 

What had they gone through? 

And if you descend from the Mayflower 

Well they were running too 

They were running from England 

Who were warring with France 

Who would conquer Spain 

Given half of a chance 

But it was the Muslims 

Who had gotten there first 

When there wasn't the bloodshed 

Then there was the thirst 

And a hate for the Christians 

The infiltrators of Rome 

You know that once mighty empire 

Who made Africa home 

The poor, Noble Egyptians 

Oh the hardships they braved 

Remembering the good times 

With Judea enslaved 

And the Israelite Nation 

The very children of God 

Killing Palestine's children 

And I'm finding it odd 

The earth, a piece of fruit 

Don't blame The Maggots when they loot 

Life just a game we play 

Try to live just one more day 

Space, our final hope 

Throw the drowning man a rope 

The choice is for us to say 

Completely change or fade away 

Now won't you tell me if you like what you've just heard? 

And if you think the point I'm driving at absurd 

Well, there's no need to tell me how or tell me why 

But I need to know the reason not to try 

'Cause if you look around you might just feel like me 

And you might notice, no one was ever really free 

And maybe, just maybe for now that's how it's supposed to be 

Could be so far we've only earned the right to barely see 

I really couldn't say for sure 

Like everyone else I know 

I'm just looking for the cure