Conspiracy of Thought Dance of the Revolution Released July, 2005 10 Songs Produced by: Ben Stewart and COT Recorded at Love Juice Labs-Riverside, CA Art Direction and Photograhy: Brian Norwood, Platypi Design Additional Photgraphy: Glen Anson Additional contributors: Kelly Cairns, Ali Issa, John Downs, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Dave Swanson, Evan Human, Runaway Slave
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Dance of the Revolution
 
I want to see dancin in the street, and children stomp their feet to the beat of the revolution
10 million people dancin in the streets, cause there ain't enough to eat for the poor in America
We’d clothe the naked, make black and white the same, as we dance around the flames that arise from the revolution
We need to see a revolution in America,
We gonna start a revolution in America,
I want to see soldiers on their knees, beggin for a peace of the bona-fide revolution
We’d issue Bibles and give them all a kiss, and tell them not to miss all their guns in America
Nonviolent action will set our course ablaze, no cities will be raised by our peace-lovin revolution
We need to see a revolution in America,
We gonna start a revolution in America,
Now Dance, Dance, Dance to the Rhythm, to the Rhythm of the Revolution
Dance... 

Let’s Sail Away

Sometimes I feel the weight of the world on my shoulders
All this marchin, chargin, gonna change the world- do it right for a better tomorrow, can take a toll on a man
I want to feel sweet breezes blowin from far and distant shores
I want to rest in your bosom and know you, like I know you
Let’s Sail Away, Let’s Sail Away, Let’s Sail Away together we’ll make for tomorrow, Sail Away,
Let’s Sail Away, I'm on the inside pushin outside, Let’s Sail Away
I want to see sunsetting horizons, Fire fall into the sea
I want to see palm branches swayin, they're swayin
But like a lion trapped inside a cage, I rage against injustice, and you're always by my side
My bride I want to show you, I love you
Let’s Sail Away, Let’s Sail Away, Let’s Sail Away together we’ll make for tomorrow,
Sail Away, Let’s Sail Away, I'm on the inside pushin outside, Let’s Sail Away
I use to think that I could get away from all the troubles of the world
No matter where I go I find oppression, people needing some redemption, from corruption in the land
We can’t escape from the troubles of the world
And we can’t escape from the duties they demand
But sometimes at night I dream about a day
When you and I can stop and sail away...
Let’s Sail Away, Let’s Sail Away, Let’s Sail Away together we’ll make for tomorrow, Sail Away,
Let’s Sail Away, I'm on the inside pushin outside, Let’s Sail Away,
Sometimes I feel the weight of the world on my shoulders
   

Suffocate Me

I see the signs, Never the less I’m gonna walk that line
Between this life and death divine
I’m locked away, Better believe their gonna make me pay
Forego the trial it’s Judgment Day
They're taking me away, My rights are gone today, I can’t believe it ended up this way
They suffocate me, suffocate me, suffocate me now
I did no wrong
Breakin me down you know it won’t be long
Before a false confession's song
One more to the face
I don’t believe that I can keep this pace
Geneva gone without a trace
What's happening to me, I thought that I was free, This country's not what it’s suppose to be
They suffocate me, suffocate me, suffocate me now
And in my very flesh a new global standard has been established
A standard that says it is permissible to torture for information
A standard that says it is acceptable to incarcerate indefinitely without trial
A standard that no longer holds to the strictures of the Geneva Convention, the International Declaration of Human Rights, or the US Constitution
A standard that is beyond the reach of global accountability
And in this new world order a cry is heard around the Earth
They're taking me away, My rights are gone today, I can’t believe it ended up this way
They suffocate me, suffocate me, suffocate me now 

Siege Engine

Crowds mount on the shrouds of downtown,
“ Rights For The People” is the chant tonight
Pompoms and machineguns face to face
Is this a death-match, No it’s a political race
Light shines in the coalmines black as night
Fork tongue from a despot's desperate plight
Sunshine on Election Day, but the poles were fixed
Too bad, your gonna pay for your insolence
Get down on your knees and pray
That the state won’t take your rights away
Undone in the cold with lidless eyes
You sway to the despot’s lullaby
Nothing breaks me more than all your pain
On the uptown bus to downtown
Jog through the streets past the old burnt synagogue
A revolution on the winds of change takes flight
Nobody gonna stop this crowd tonight
Belgrade on a dark September day
School’s out all the kids have come to play
Last chance for a despot's desperate plight
All ya people stand up tonight
Time stops and the people revolt in peace
Another landmine to break the social breach
Born chained to a system of countless lies
You sway to the despot’s lullaby
Nothing breaks me more than all your pain
We make our stand on solid ground
But the ground don’t belong to the people
Engines of peace
Make walls even tanks cannot defeat
Hand in hand we’ll take the land
As freedom comes we’ll make our stand
Engines of peace...
 
 
Bloodstained

I’m feelin queer today
My heart is cold the sky is goin gray
Saw a picture of a girl, she’s blown away
I’m feelin queer today
All it takes is just a spark
These sights I’ve seen have left their mark
Blinded by the hate, I’m groping in the dark
All it takes is just a spark
And you can see the writing on the wall
And I can see the writing on the wall
Why would someone kill a child
Week and helpless now her body's been defiled
40 bullets in the air
Crippled baby lying twisted on the stairs
And you can see the writing on the wall
And I can see the writing on the wall
And we can see the writing on the wall
Every little thing about this makes me cry
Living in a life of righteous genocide
Every little thing about this makes me cry
Living in a lie of righteous genocideAnd you can see the writing on the wall
And I can see the writing on the wall
And we can see the writing on the wall
Bloodstained, another bloodstained martyr come on
40 more shots
The writing's on the wall

I Had a Dream

I had a dream that we could live with each other
I had a dream that we could learn from one another
I had a dream that we were sisters and brothers
I had a dream that we could love one another
I HAD A DREAM
I had a dream that politicians didn’t lie
I had a dream that white men didn’t rule on high
I had a dream that soldiers didn’t have to die
I had a dream of freedom raining from the skies
I HAD A DREAM
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, by us selfish humans
I had a dream that man would feed his fellow man
I had a dream he’d throw his weapons in the sand
He’d clothe the naked, give the weak the strength to stand
I had a dream that God would open up his hand
I HAD A DREAM

Back to Back

Another white man stands, power in his eyes
He got the WAR-lust, no room to compromise
He sold his people on a pocket full of lies
And now he's gone and there’s no one left to terrorize
You got to open your eyes and let the sun shine down
You got to open the door and take the streets right now
You got to stand- Back to Back
If they can separate the movement from the means
Assimilation of the Rights enduring dreams
The freest nation this world has ever seen
Becomes a product of the Devil and his schemes
You got to open your eyes and let the sun shine down
You got to open the door and take the streets right now
You got to stand- Back to Back 

Dia de los Muertos

I am waiting on you to take my hand
I shed my blood and tears and love across the land
I need you to bring me through, to a brand new day
But I’d give my life if I could only hear you say...
They burned my house and then they took my wife away
They beat me from dusk-to-dawn to dusk-to-dawn for two whole days
and I prayed, “Lord, I need a miracle! Lord, I need a sign”
You took the blood I shed and turned it into wine
Dia de los Muertos
Hallelujah
It only takes a spark, to get a fire goin
We fan the flame, cast off our shame, and get our movement growin
Dia de los Muertos
Hallelujah 

Desegregate

All along- We sang a simple song
Thinkin we should separate, You can’t force us to segregate
When we put it all together they pulled the Race card
You think that cause we’re mixed we won't be bringin it hard
But who knew that we do the way we doin it now
We put a rock into the rhythm of the African sound
Runaway Slave, and COT
We put a fist in the air, ya we’re revolutionaries
Of a brand new sound, with a brand new sting,
and a brand new style that we’re fixin to bring
You wanna front punk, get outta my way
Because the army that I’m marchin with is marchin today
And all around the world we got somethin to say
NO MORE SEGREGATION TODAY
All along- We sang a simple song
Thinkin we should separate, You can’t force us to segregate
 

Jihad

How many bullets does it take to make a peaceful insurrection in a Holy Land
How many pieces in the puzzle separate us like a shovel through the desert sand
Israeli forces in the trenches, digging ditches, take a shot across civilian lines
The Arab desert on the table make a stable exclamation for their Palestine
Mamma don’t you cry, Mamma don’t you cry, Mamma wipe those tears from your eyes
We are the children of the promise and that promise is the land belongs to Israel
But we’re descendants of the father of the promise through the seed of Brother Ishmael
So we create a civil war to separate us from the whore that desecrates our shrines
“ Jihad” the people shout and in the street they fight about the city that they say is “mine”
Mamma don’t you cry, Mamma don’t you cry, Mamma wipe those tears from your eyes
Why can’t we walk hand in hand
Put an end to all the hate that now destroys our broken land
Close your eyes and imagine a scene, a land of milk and honey like your lost in a dream
No terror on the busses or the threat of pogrom, and the choice of your religion doesn’t carry a bomb
Now wake up to devastation, it’s a horrible day, another massacre in Gaza that we’re gonna repay
A bullet in the head, we both bleed red, it doesn’t matter who’s the winner if our children are dead
Why can’t we walk hand in hand
Put an end to all the hate that now destroys our broken land