There’s a factory making hate
And it’s coming to your cornfield
We have given up on growing
We’re reaping the death we’re sowing

We’ve planted the terminator seeds
We’re worshiping supermax sterility
And there’s a bumper crop of evil coming
And the next generation is going to reap it

We’re investing in the violent retirement of our whole society
We’re creating an underclass army
of angry addicted unemployable thieves
We spend ten times more giving weapons of war to corrupt governments like Columbia’s
Then we spend on treatment harm reduction and prevention combined
in our own country

This is the shadow cast by our unfathomable military industrial greed
Prisoners working for almost free for corporations like Microsoft and AT&T
Disproportionately Minorities we have not come far from the days of slavery
And would you believe that addiction rates are the same cross culturally?

First concentrate the problem in a project
A ghetto with no way out
It’s not such a big adjustment
To move to the big house

poverty and oppression
leads to depression and stress
and then there’s not much opportunity beyond
the lure of easy money and the hope of death

And AODA treatment works as well
as chemotherapy or a triple bypass
Do we lock up people who can’t quit smoking
When their cancer comes back
Do we lock up people who have a heart attack
Because they wouldn’t stop living large
snacking on big macs
and chewing the fat

For every dollar we spend on treatment 7 are saved
From emergency rooms, hospitals, accident scenes, and factories of hate
But treatment providers have to get on their knees and beg and plead for funding
While the prison industry grows and grows with no results and no questioning

It’s not a war on drugs
It’s a war on drug addicts
Who are some sick sick people
With some bad bad habits

But when you know the whole horror story
You feel compassion grow
They’ve been beaten and raped and emotionally tortured
And being high is the only peace they know

You can lock up hate in a the cage
And you can harden your heart and rage
But your heart will pump and bust those bars
It’s a force of nature

You can just say no to your soul today
You can look the other way
But if you do you’re headed down the same deadly path
As that Addict you claim not to understand

And if Jesus came back he’d go right down to the supermax
And show them all that they are loved until they learned to love him back
And he’d stretch out his arms, open his heart and bust those bars
And we too can be free of fear and take those bars off of our hearts

Let my people go
I said let my people go
I’m calling on Moses
Moses let my people go