Insurrection Ave

They wanna isolate the left, isolate the right
And all of us
They're gonna polarize the blacks, polarize the whites
And everybody gets caught up in the fight

I read revolution on the Berkeley walls
While the red threat waved to the communist fall
And from down here, I read four letter words on the bathroom stalls
And in the union halls

The American Revolution is unfinished
There won't be peace until there's justice
I've got my home-made bombs, homespun charms
I'll meet you at the corner of Skid Row and Insurrection Avenue

I get no dough from the Pentagon
I can't subsidize my family ties with the IM Fund
Keep the workers working, the governor say cool off
Some cool off but I'm feeling red hot, I'm feeling tension in the melting pot

I read revolution on the Berkeley walls
While the red threat waved to the communist fall
And from down here, I read four letter words on the bathroom stalls
And in the union halls

The American Revolution is unfinished
There won't be peace until there's justice
I've got my home-made bombs, homespun charms
I'll meet you at the corner of Skid Row and Insurrection Avenue

They're gonna blur threat and catastrophe, they're gonna blur class lines
They're gonna blur all the history, you can't see an enemy you can't define
They're gonna urge you to God and country, they're gonna urge you to cross picket lines
And while the trading is free far overseas, they're retouching borders we're all chained behind

Revolution is unfinished
There won't be peace until there's justice
I've got my home-made bombs, homespun charms
I'll meet you at the corner of Skid Row