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Jim Caroll Barricades Here are the song lyrics for Barricades by Jim Caroll. For more excellent Jim Caroll lyrics, run a search! By jim carroll We should have left at once We should have never stayed Now they have drawn the line Now there is a barricade Now theres a barricade A barricade Who makes promises? Who makes promises through a thick lead door? Through an intercom on the 23rd floor? Who makes promises and then promises more? Who makes promises for el salvador? Bobbys getting called. billys getting called Juans getting called, johns getting called . . . They get a letter in the mail, they get a telephone call It says, "come on, come on . . ." It says, "come on . . ." All the american boys Asleep beneath american shade Awake on foreign soil They awake inside the barricades Inside the barricades The sun curves over the jungle And trees grow from the dead nuns lungs But when the ship is in the harbor Then the cyanide pills on their tongue Inside the barricade, inside the barricade Girls, no more going out dancing And boys, theres no more getting laid Youre gonna parachute to the holy land And you will drop into the barricades Inside the barricades, inside the barricades Who makes promises for the neutron bomb? It will sign your lungs to death And leave the corporate walls unharmed . . . Who makes promises with such insidious charm? But it would have made things cleaner In old vietnam . . . Thats when kevin got called up Ritchie got called . . . And kevin never came back Ritchie never came home Their folks got a letter in the mail They got a letter in the mail . . . I aint gonna die for standard oil I.b.m. . . . I wouldnt die for them! G.e.? not me! "come on," they say, "come on" They say "come on," And you say, "ahh" . . . You just say "later!"
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