Jim Caroll - Barricades Lyrics
By jim carrollWe should have left at onceWe should have never stayedNow they have drawn the lineNow there is a barricadeNow theres a barricadeA barricadeWho makes promises?Who makes promises through a thick lead door?Through an intercom on the 23rd floor?Who makes promises and then promises more?Who makes promises for el salvador?Bobbys getting called. billys getting calledJuans getting called, johns getting called . . .They get a letter in the mail, they get a telephone callIt says, come on, come on . . .It says, come on . . .All the american boysAsleep beneath american shadeAwake on foreign soilThey awake inside the barricadesInside the barricadesThe sun curves over the jungleAnd trees grow from the dead nuns lungsBut when the ship is in the harborThen the cyanide pills on their tongueInside the barricade, inside the barricadeGirls, no more going out dancingAnd boys, theres no more getting laidYoure gonna parachute to the holy landAnd you will drop into the barricadesInside the barricades, inside the barricadesWho makes promises for the neutron bomb?It will sign your lungs to deathAnd leave the corporate walls unharmed . . .Who makes promises with such insidious charm?But it would have made things cleanerIn old vietnam . . .Thats when kevin got called upRitchie got called . . .And kevin never came backRitchie never came homeTheir folks got a letter in the mailThey got a letter in the mail . . .I aint gonna die for standard oilI.b.m. . . . I wouldnt die for them!G.e.? not me!Come on, they say, come onThey say come on,And you say, ahh . . .You just say later!
