When They Come for You and Yours (Ver. 2) Lyrics

It's always been so easy to go and buy

Whatever you need

Your pseudo friends chase the dogs away

Every time you get treed

Plugged into a network of intellectual

Self-styled brains

That do for you, as you do for them

So everybody gains

You avoid your neighbors when you see them

In the grocery stores

But you won't have time to scoff any more

Running for your life

When they come for you and yours

You watched as some of them were rounded up

And taken away

And you even had a hand, pointing fingers

And giving out names.

You did nothing when there was that shakeup

Happening down the street

To those families that were struggling

To make their ends meet

Now the authorities are in your neighbor's closet

Emptying out his drawers.

Can you be ready for tomorrow's wars

Being caught off guard

When they come for you and yours

You bought up all the front men

Avoided bureaucratic red tape

You've been given specific instructions

Should you find the need to escape

And if the powers you're leaning towards

Are then suddenly denied

There's that shirttail friend who's postured on the other side

Still, in spite of being insulated you'd like to be on some distant shores

Yeah, with an empty house and no possessions on the floors

It's too late to be in Argentina

When they come for you and yours

You've bought yourself a comfort zone

And padded yourself real well

But your money'll be no good

When no one's buying what you sell

Scapegoats and informants that

In the past, took your fall

Will be pointing in your direction

To keep their families from the wall

No one'll be coming to your aid

When they're breaking down your doors

Oh, no one giving answers to the whys and what-fors

What can you say; what will you do

When they come for you and yours