Lyrics

you can keep
your promises and your lies
no one's gonna' make sure
you say what you mean

and you can kill
all the children you ever wanted to
no one's gonna' shed a tear
when the witnesses describe the scene

(chorus:)
'cause we all have bicycles (x3)
and radios and wristwatches too

you can take
our speech away
we didn't have
much left to say of any note

and you can lock up
our poets and our essayists
no one was really
reading what they wrote

(chorus)

and you can rape
our women if you must
none of them will tell you no
a second time

you can leave
our hungry unfed
our sick without a bed
we know it's hard to move forward
without somebody being left behind

(chorus)