Everybody Knows Somebody - Amanda Palmer

They say

This land gets more and more divided

If I may

I think that’s not the only side why

Just today

I read the late edition paper

And no way

I saw the North and South united

Like the blood

That flows every color body

It’s enough

We’ve finally all at the same party

Looking down

It may not be the thing we wanted

But there’s finally enough to go around

From New York to California

From Detroit down to the border

We all have more in common now than we do not

'Cause everybody knows somebody

(Everybody knows somebody)

Everybody knows somebody

(Everybody knows somebody)

Everybody knows somebody who got shot

They say

There’s trouble brewing in the union

Hip hooray

Look human beings being human

Laying blame

Wherever there is room to lay it’s

All the same

You want the red pill or the blue one

But it’s all

About to change, something is getting us

Aboard

The SS progress, one big funeral

For all

The people that we used to call

Before they risked their lives

To head out to the mosque or to the mall

From New York to California

From Detroit down to the border

We all have more in common now than we do not

'Cause everybody knows somebody

(Everybody knows somebody)

Everybody knows somebody

(Everybody knows somebody)

Everybody knows somebody who got shot

From the mountain rivers to the public squares

Everybody’s getting really good at sending thoughts and prayers

From the Heart of Dixie up to Oregon

We can can all rest assured there’ll be a slaughter somewhere by the dawn

And in the nightclubs all the dancers in the dark

They can twist the night away with extra fear inside their hearts

From New England to Alaska every child

Will know exactly what to do now when a shooter opens fire

From New York to California

From Detroit down to the border

We all have more in common now than we do not

'Cause everybody knows somebody

(Everybody knows somebody)

Everybody knows somebody

(Everybody knows somebody)

Everybody knows somebody

(Everybody knows somebody)

This land is your land

This land is my land

This land is our land

Until it’s not

'Cause everybody knows somebody

(Everybody knows somebody)

Everybody knows somebody

(Everybody knows somebody)

Everybody knows somebody

Until everybody’s gone