Jim Caroll - Barricades lyrics

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By jim carroll<br />

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We should have left at once<br />

We should have never stayed<br />

Now they have drawn the line<br />

Now there is a barricade<br />

Now there's a barricade<br />

A barricade<br />

Who makes promises? <br />

Who makes promises through a thick lead door? <br />

Through an intercom on the 23rd floor? <br />

Who makes promises and then promises more? <br />

Who makes promises for el salvador? <br />

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Bobbys getting called. billys getting called<br />

Juans getting called, johns getting called . . .<br />

They get a letter in the mail, they get a telephone call<br />

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It says, come on, come on . . .<br />

It says, come on . . .<br />

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All the american boys<br />

Asleep beneath american shade<br />

Awake on foreign soil<br />

They awake inside the barricades<br />

Inside the barricades<br />

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The sun curves over the jungle<br />

And trees grow from the dead nuns lungs<br />

But when the ship is in the harbor<br />

Then the cyanide pills on their tongue<br />

Inside the barricade, inside the barricade<br />

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Girls, no more going out dancing<br />

And boys, there's no more getting laid<br />

Youre gonna parachute to the holy land<br />

And you will drop into the barricades<br />

Inside the barricades, inside the barricades<br />

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Who makes promises for the neutron bomb? <br />

It will sign your lungs to death<br />

And leave the corporate walls unharmed . . .<br />

Who makes promises with such insidious charm? <br />

But it would have made things cleaner<br />

In old vietnam . . .<br />

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That's when kevin got called up<br />

Ritchie got called . . .<br />

And kevin never came back<br />

Ritchie never came home<br />

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Their folks got a letter in the mail<br />

They got a letter in the mail . . .<br />

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I aint gonna die for standard oil<br />

I.b.m. . . . I wouldn't die for them!<br />

G.e.? not me!<br />

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Come on, they say, come on<br />

They say come on,<br />

And you say, ahh . . .<br />

You just say later!