Gratitude And Thanks

I asked a student of higher schooling He said he didn’t care When I asked about the sixties They simply said long hair Saw a child getting programmed Getting programmed when she wakes And I heard a raving elder Cursing 20 years too late Oh how the bastards screwed me Son, life’s too short to wait And then the students Of higher schooling Hid more pills inside his plate So I’d like to send gratitude And thanks To those who had the courage To defy the mighty ranks Send it to the students Who waved the banners Who held flowers up to the tanks And to the ones who are Still fighting Yes all my gratitude And all my thanks So as you sit baked and hammered So grateful to be dead Saying freedom’s here to chill out So sit and rest your head Think of those who fought For your right The path you walk, they paved And those who fought for their right To carry until today When it was they who fed the hungry, Stormed the pentagon for peace While the army rounded strangers up made them instant police They who made a union, dodged the draft, and filled the jails And spread a message of unity Across the nation’s rails And said we’re destroying The house that Man have built Kicking the doors and pulling nails And you have the nerve to tell me That everyone has failed No, you should send Your gratitude and thanks To those who had the courage To defy the mighty ranks Send it to the students Who waved the banners Who held flowers up to the tanks And to the ones who are Still fighting Yes all my gratitude x2 And all my thanks I'd like to send out a Head, help, heart, and hand To those who had the courage To reach and rise and stand Send it to the lovers And the fighters To those who stood up and still stand Those who unchained their wrist And clenched their fist Both here and in faraway lands