[Spoken]
There was a silly damn bird called a Phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burned himself up. He must have been first cousin to Man. But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again. And it looks like we’re doing the same thing, over and over, but we’ve got one damn thing the Phoenix never had. We know the damn silly thing we just did. We know all the damn silly things we’ve done for a thousand years and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it, some day we’ll stop making the goddamn funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them. We pick up a few more people that remember, every generation
[Verse One]
Red fires ravage
All that we had
Libraries, schools
Forests and farms
Mechanized dogs
Weaponized dogs
Doing just what
Their master said they would
[Pre-Chorus One]
When will we learn
To stop letting ‘em burn?
When will we see
How history repeats?
[Chorus]
I see the funeral pyre
Black plumes of smoke, rising higher
Back to the rule of a tyrant
From which we came
Like a Phoenix, we burned ourselves up
He laid out his plans clear enough
This silly damn thing we've just done
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
[Verse Two]
Red flags are flying
People are dying
Blood-tainted banner
Waves o’er the flame
Firemen of ICE
They don’t think twice
Hands held up high
Sayin’ “Let thy will be done”
[Pre-Chorus Two]
Oh, he wants
More soils for American blood
Oh, I fear
That it can happen here
[Chorus]
I see the funeral pyre
Black plumes of smoke, rising higher
Back to the rule of a tyrant
From which we came
Like a Phoenix, we burned ourselves up
He laid out his plans clear enough
This silly damn thing we've just done
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
[Verse Three]
Some people cheering
Some still are sulking
Wielding their paddles
Fault on the serve
Some watch in horror
Hand clenched in hand
Others stand up
And fight while they still can
[Pre-Chorus Three]
Oh, right now
The world is starin’ us down
History will know
If you stand up or let it all go
[Chorus]
I see the funeral pyre
Black plumes of smoke, rising higher
Back to the rule of a tyrant
From which we came
Like a Phoenix, we burned ourselves up
He laid out his plans clear enough
This silly damn thing we've just done
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust