Lyrics Amanda Palmer – Everybody Knows Somebody
Text:
They say
This land gets more and more divided
If I may
I think that’s not the only side why
I read the late edition paper
And no way
I saw the North and South united
Like the blood
That flows every color body
It’s enough
We’ve finally all at the same party
Looking down
It may not be the thing we wanted
But there’s finally enough to go around
From New York to California
From Detroit down to the border
We all have more in common now than we do not
‘Cause everybody knows somebody
(Everybody knows somebody)
Everybody knows somebody
(Everybody knows somebody)
Everybody knows somebody who got shot
They say
There’s trouble brewing in the union
Hip hooray
Look human beings being human
Laying blame
Wherever there is room to lay it’s
All the same
But it’s all
About to change, something is getting us
Aboard
The SS progress, one big funeral
For all
The people that we used to call
Before they risked their lives
To head out to the mosque or to the mall
From New York to California
From Detroit down to the border
We all have more in common now than we do not
‘Cause everybody knows somebody
(Everybody knows somebody)
Everybody knows somebody
(Everybody knows somebody)
Everybody knows somebody who got shot
From the mountain rivers to the public squares
Everybody’s getting really good at sending thoughts and prayers
From the Heart of Dixie up to Oregon
We can can all rest assured there’ll be a slaughter somewhere by the dawn
And in the nightclubs all the dancers in the dark
They can twist the night away with extra fear inside their hearts
From New England to Alaska every child
Will know exactly what to do now when a shooter opens fire
From New York to California
From Detroit down to the border
We all have more in common now than we do not
‘Cause everybody knows somebody
(Everybody knows somebody)
Everybody knows somebody
(Everybody knows somebody)
Everybody knows somebody
(Everybody knows somebody)
This land is your land
This land is my land
This land is our land
Until it’s not
‘Cause everybody knows somebody
(Everybody knows somebody)
Everybody knows somebody
(Everybody knows somebody)
Everybody knows somebody
Until everybody’s gone
