The Right To Remain Silent

Climb aboard, please move on back

Your seat is in the rear

Where you can't bother decent folks

Who don't want you too near

Please don't raise a ruckus

Be a credit to your race

Life was so much simpler

When you people knew your place

You have the right to remain silent

And we really wish you would

All this talk of equal rights

Won't do anybody good

Don't speak of love and harmony

Of peace and brotherhood

You have the right to remain silent

And we really think you should

A young man on a battlefield

Six thousand miles away

Is just following orders

And counting down the days

He had a dream of bravery

Defending liberty

But no one really wants him here

The truth is plain to see

He has the right to remain silent

And we really wish he would

Saying blood for oil is wrong

Won't do anybody good

Don't speak of love and harmony

Of peace and brotherhood

You have the right to remain silent

And we really think you should

Some folks called him prophet

Some said he was God

Few could understand

The path of destiny he trod

He said "Love thy neighbor as thyself."

A message that was lost

They made him an example

And hung him from a cross

He had the right to remain silent

And they really wished he would

This talk of "Blessed are the meek."

Won't do anybody good

Don't speak of love and harmony

Of peace and brotherhood

You have the right to remain silent

And we really think you should