With God On Our Side - K’naan

With God On Our Side - K'naan (克南)
It's a movie and the whole
World is viewing it
And the popcorn is dreams
Torn but we're always chewing it
They said dishonest by god but
The costumes by the devil
And the screenplay is adapted
From a book that's embezzled
This is where I grew up
This is where I grew proud
This is where neighbors never
Say music is too loud
This is where the streets have
No name but they have history
This is loss is victory
Oh my name it ain't nothing
My age it means less
The country I come from
Could be like the rest
I was taught and brought
Up there laws to abide
And the land that I live
In has god on it's side
I was young I grew
I could tie my shoe
I was blind but I knew that
I would always see blue
Blue seas I see through on
The bottom I'll meet you
And when we come up for a breath
Would you mind if I kiss you
Childhood came up for the kiss
But it slips it's pain in with mist
And the sunny skies came and I missed it
Vanished and when swept
Landed we slept in the arms
Of convenience blanket obedience
Now to some of the americans
War had it's day
And the civil war too was soon laid away
And the names of our warlords
I was made to memorize
With guns in their hands they said
God's on their side
I had an undying wish
To keep from dying
I had an untimely hitch
Keep me from climbing
But I climbed a hitch
Itself and I tried flying
I had an uprising in my soul
The left was fight in the right
And the right was fight in the light
And the light was blind in the night
And the night woke up in tears
When my fingers went to wipe them
They became a poem but to write then
They would have to speak
Tears in another language
That would take years
So now as I'm leavin'
I'm weary as hell
The confusion I'm feelin'
Ain't no tongue can tell
The words fill my head
And fall to the floor
If god's on our side then
Would you ever need war