Bear Witness © Sun PK
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I want to confront the money masters

   Who buy their morals with charity

And call the poor to account for wanting

   To stay too blind to see

Line up the people who think guns are good

   And shoot them one by one

Squash the men who are derisive and mean

   on purpose and think it’s fun

I want to scream at the politicians

   For telling lies, lies, lies

I’d like to bear witness

I wish I had the courage to open my eyes

If only I could be forgiving - get rid of all this judgment

   In my head and stop hanging on to hope

‘Cause it’s all so vile and filthy

   Makes me want to wash my mind out with soap

Why is it so fucking easy to be so sad and pitiful

   Yet so hard to cry

Why do I feel like I’m responsible for how the world sees me

   When all I do is try

To take a simple stand and wear it on my back

   Without feeling it’s something I advertise

I’d like to bear witness

I wish I had the courage to open my eyes

And I wish I didn’t feel like

   I wasted time every time

      I said something that wasn’t meaningful or deep

And I wish I didn’t feel like

   I wasted time every time

      I think about my life - I must’ve been asleep

I’d like to mutilate myself but I already do

   Every time I cut myself down to size

I’d like to bear witness

   I wish I had the courage to open my eyes

Yeah, I’d bear witness
  If I had the courage to open my eyes

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