But She Was Not Flying - Algiers

But there’s a lizard with a human face

He says he’s standing for democracy

And every wealthy man has earned his place

As did the undeserving in their poverty

He told my brother that he wasn’t a man

He broke my sister down again and again

His fathers stole and wrote the laws of the land

And now he flips the coin of power with all of his friends

Deciding who is fit to go out and die

And who is black enough to be left behind

And who will model their exceptional lie

And just how many they can murder at the borderline

I knew a woman with a scale in her hand

They bound and gagged her with the lies of the land

She couldn’t tell what she was measuring

So they tilt the scale to meet their own personal ends

Saying, «I'll shoot your son if he’s out of line»

«I'll rape your daughters underground where I hide»

«And I can murder anytime that I like

Cause I’m protected at my left and my right»

«I got a side that says I’m only a man

Another side that puts the gun in my hand»

«I'll trade your product of environment

For any alibi for consequence»