Look how the ruts cling to my footsteps

the fatal invisible tool

by which we define (we fight!) for our approval

and fear our removal from the safety of fools

From the tidal forces of our positions

not won (not one!) to take for granted

are our rebel hymns in canted

to sing in the mines of the fortunate sons?

Brothers in spirit, sisters in rage,

will we live out our lives in this concrete cage?

another heartbeat lost, another police murder

buried in the public eyes on the back page.

heartbeat lost in a new world order

hobbled and bound but still walking away

I pledge allegiance to the world

nothing more, nothing less than my humanity

I pledge allegiance to the world

searching for vision not invisibility

I pledge allegiance to the world

searching for vision not invisibility

I pledge allegiance to the world

until the last lock breaks none of us are free

none of us are free...

We fight to balance our minds

petty powers pushing profits over our lifetimes

world leaders mortgaging our lives with words

I don't need to be reminded of whom you really serve.

Brothers in spirit, sisters in rage,

will we live out our lives in this concrete cage?

another heartbeat lost, another police murder

buried in the public eyes on the back page.

{Too many} heartbeats lost in the new world order

{while we're} standing alone with our backs to the maze

I pledge allegiance to the world

nothing more, nothing less than my humanity

I pledge allegiance to the world

until the last lock breaks none of us are free

I pledge allegiance to the world

until the last lock breaks none of us are free

I pledge allegiance to the world

for nothing more, nothing less

In justice, in hunger united

searching for vision united

in justice, in hunger united

law and order {but} for whose order?

I pledge allegiance to the world

nothing more, nothing less than my humanity

I pledge allegiance to the world

until the last lock breaks none of us are free

I pledge allegiance to the world

under no nation will we ever be

I pledge allegiance to the world

for nothing more, nothing less

than my humanity, than my humanity, than my humanity (pledge allegiance!)

to our humanity, to our humanity, to our humanity (to the world!)