Put Our Hearts Together

Bruce Cockburn

Don't need the everlasting trade expansion 
Don't need the cold white heroin breath 
Don't need Pizzarro 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 

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 

Who needs supremacy of pink people 
There's no such thing as a pure racial strain 
It takes all colours to make a rainbow 
Takes every part to make a working brain 
The whole of history is a growing together 
If 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 

We need to... 

Woman-in-kitchen, man-in-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 
God 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 

We need to...