Bruce Cockburn
Put Our Hearts Together
[Verse 1]
Don't need the everlasting trade expansion
Don't need the cold white heroin breath
Don't need Pizarro or the Inquisition
No berserk worship of a hero's death
Don't need reactionary politicians
Don't need the gunfight at the O.K.
Don't need no Reverend Paisley hate-masturbation
Don't need no jihad or no IRA
[Chorus]
We need to put our hearts together
Set up a rhythm in combination
And if we put our hearts together
We get a rhythm that will shake creation
[Verse 2]
Who needs supremacy of pink people?
There's no such thing as a pure racial strain
Takes all colours to make a rainbow
Takes every part to make a working brain
The whole of history is a growing together
You want pure, you're gonna have caves again
Anyway who needs a geek like the Grand Dragon?
So full of shit his breath makes acid rain
[Chorus]
We need to put our hearts together
Set up a rhythm in combination
And if we put our hearts together
We get a rhythm that will shake creation
[Verse 3]
Woman in the kitchen, man in a palace
Worshipping the performance of the phallus
Gaming for power till their hearts grow callous
As if a human's just an animal with malice
Limp lance, phallocrat, finger on the trigger
Go ahead and stay small while everything gets bigger
It's a bully's game and I don't want to play
Why don't you think about the better way?
[Chorus]
We need to put our hearts together
Set up a rhythm in combination
And if we put our hearts together
We get a rhythm that will shake creation
We need to put our hearts together
Set up a rhythm in combination
And if we put our hearts together
We get a rhythm that will shake creation
[Outro]
We need to put our hearts together
We need to put our hearts together
We need to put our hearts together
We need to put our hearts together