Generals

The Mynabirds Generals Lyrics
1.Karma Debt

Here we are in the orchestra
A bullet in our brain
We hold our homes like credit cards
And hope to pay the rent
But when the war is done
And we've finished all our songs
We'll offset the colossal karma debt
The ebony and the ivory talked politics again
Then they sat and chewed the stingray
Til there was nothing left
But will all their peace act cold
Amount to something more or something less
And wasted breath
I give it all I give it all for a legacy of love
I give it all I give it all for a legacy of love
I give it all I give it all for a legacy of love
Here we are in the orchestra
A bullet in our brain
We hold our homes like credit cards
And hope to pay the rent
And when the war is done
And we've finished all our songs
We'll offset the colossal karma debt


2.Wolf Mother

Don't do much these days
Keep the wolves at bay
Don't do much to ease the pain

Heaven's hell, I say
It gets in the way
If we're never gonna reach the top
Why would we even try?

Oh we're tumbling down
We're tumbling down
Cause your ideal is not mine
Yes, we're tumbling down
We're tumbling down
Tumbling, tumbling

I wanna know
Who lets the wolves in
And I can see him tonight
I wanna know
That man in sheepskin
Cause I owe him a fight
In the valley below
Oh a red river flows
It ain't right
I'm gonna add him below
To that river of souls
Tonight


3.Generals

I ... in a blue collar town, so I haven't paid my rent
When the music is on, I put my best...
But I haven't made a dollar yet
Haven't I paid my dues? Haven't I paid my dues?
Haven't I paid my dues? yeah

I'm calling on my generals, my daughters
My revolutionaires
We got strength in numbers,
And they're going to pay for it

We ... money in our homes, are books and bones are breaking down
so fast
And we keep putting all our cash into the next blood bath
And I tell you I am sick of it
Haven't we paid our dues? Haven't we paid our dues?
Haven't we paid our dues? Yeah

And all my sisters, what you want?
And all my brothers, what you got?
You wanna fix it? Or fuck it up?
We're gonna fix it, cause it's been fucked

Calling on my generals, my daughters
My revolutionaires
We got strength in numbers,
And they're going to pay for it

Get your black boots on, get your black boots on,
Get your black, black, black, boots on
Get you marching drums, get your marching drums
Get your marching, marching, marching drums
Gonna make them run, gonna make them run, gonna make them run
We gonna get them on, get them on, get them on run
So get your war paint on, get your war paint on, get your war
paint on...


4.Radiator Sister

She's a radiator sister
Oh boys, I'll tell you what I mean
Her mind's a nest of firecrackers
She needs to blow off some steam

I'll tell you right now
You will get burned
So watch out

There's a poison in the harbor
It's looking deadly in the seas
And yet they're handing out blue ribbons
To the killing companies

I'll tell you right now
You will get burned
So watch out

Yes I'll tell you once more
You have been warned
Oh watch out

Radiator
Radiator
Radiator
Watch out

You're a radiator brother
You know exactly what I mean
You see 'em dying in the breadlines
But turning profits on the street

They build the walls around each other
And keep the suburbs clean
But they cannot burn the bridges
Between you and me

I'll tell you once more
You have been warned
Oh watch out

Yes, we'll tell them once more
Karma comes round
Oh watch out

Radiator
Radiator
Radiator
Watch out


5.Disaster

Hold on hold on hold on
Just a minute longer
I got I got your back
I promise to keep you from going under

The walls the walls caved in
And the sky came tumbling after
And the minute we thought we were out of the wreck
Came another great

Disaster, collision
All of the world is tearing at the seams
Disaster, division
What we're turning into
I cannot say
I cannot say

The sky the sky turned black
And the sea the sea turned blacker
But I got I got your back
I promise to keep you from going under


6.Mightier than the Sword

You're not alone in anything
So listen up my love
A tiny town looking torn down
But the right word can build you up
I know there is a plain angst
Caught into your arms and up in your veins and you think
There's nothing you could do they haven't already done
To you
It's hard enough in your corn
To fend off the hungry birds of prey
And it's a fresh assault when the news comes on
Another one gone today
You study the lines in his face
He looked just like you; your scar is the same
Is there anything I could say to make you stay
Love won't leave you alone no matter what no matter how it may
come
And I promise you'll be loved I love no matter what
Your mightier vessel short sharp tongues
Yes I'll always you alone yes I'll always you alone
So don't give up
When you forget the words I will sing them for you
When you forget the words I will sing them for you
When you forget the words I will sing them for you
When you forget the words I will sing them for you


7.Body of Work

Before you get out I want you to know
You get so many lives in just this one
Sometimes you're a roller
Sometimes you're the stone
Sometimes you're an avalanche in whole

But you can be wild horses on that hill
You can be wild horses
You can stop at will
And you will

Before you get out on your one way
I've got a ticket waiting for you under any name
You can be holy or a roller, oh anything
But whatever you choose stay

Yesterday happened just exactly as it did
You can't go back and undo it
You're not a knot you're not a dead end
Don't ever forget
You're a living thing

Freedom is what you do with what
With what's been done to you

Before you lay down in this place
Remember you can see a blackbird
A thousand ways
You can be a soldier
You can be the snow
Under the boots of an army with miles to go

And you can be white horses on that hill
You can be white horses
You can carry heaven until

Yesterday happened just exactly as it did
You can't go back and undo it
You're not a knot you're not a dead end
Don't ever forget

You are a body of work Edit it
You are electric So sing it

Freedom is what you do with what
With what's been done to you


8.Disarm

My baby does so much panicking around
And lately I cannot talk her down
My love, what are you fighting for?
My love, you'll never even the score
Cause there's always one more

War in the waiting
War in the waiting
With your arms up
War in the waiting
War in the waiting
Give it up

My love, aren't you tired of arguing?
My love, you won't surrender a thing
By disarming

My baby, there's so much panic in these days
Enemies made out of brothers down the way
My love, you and I are a siamese form
My love, so what are we fighting for?

War in the waiting
War in the waiting
With your arms up
War in the waiting
War in the waiting
Give it up

My love, I'm so tired of arguing
My love, we won't surrender a thing
By disarming

If you can't remember
The good in your brother
Ask another, ask another


9.Buffalo Flower

So we go down to the red to the river
Dig our hands deep in the banks of the sand
Loose all the black of the souls buried there
Forgive every man

Moving uptown, gonna clear the air
Moving uptown, then we'll go everywhere

Buffalo flower
My queen of the plains
When the bully winds
Push on your shoulder
You show them who's king

Oh the man of the hour
Is another pretty young buck
Pinstripes and a tongue
Like a fresh cut flower
Promises sure to wither up
Oh my man, your hour's up

So we'll march up out the road out the valley
Build a town tall at the top of the hill
If we don't start one foot in front of the other
We never will

Can't change the weather
But we sure can change our shoes
Can't change what we weather
But we can change what we do

Buffalo flower
My queen of the plains
When the bully winds
Push on your shoulder
You show them who's king

Gonna do what I can
Right where I stand
I'm gonna do what I can


10.10 Greatest Revenge

All along the avenues the soldiers make their way
While lovers drift the avenue of a cold September day
Kiss me darling kiss me like we'll never kiss again
And love me won't you love me like it's our greatest revenge
No one knows how much it means under wars dragged magazines
Battle fronts and beauty queens making love in the headlines
I feel for all the progeny how will they know what freedom means
When it's forged to every cause and crane on the fear assembly
lines
Oh the American sheep oh the American sheep
What happened to our cavalry now pork is fed to the fattest pig
And the women and the babies are starving on the ship
And the waters come in so fast it's hard to know how long it
will last
When you're taken all then give you back all you found under the
Oh the American greed oh the American greed is not me
I'm gonna give what I can
Come Come feed the promises to the suffering or with little love
who raise
Again
Show us stars with hearts that beat like broken guns with
nothing in their
Arsenal
Oh no
I'd give it all I'd give it all for a legacy of love
I'd give it all I'd give it all for a legacy of love
I'd give it all I'd give it all for a legacy of love
I will sing I'd give it all I'd give it for a legacy