With God On Our Side Lyrics - K'naan

It's a movie and the whole world is viewing it 

And the popcorn is dreams torn, but we're always chewing it. 

(They said) Dishonest by God but the costumes by the devil 

And the screenplay is adapted from a book that's embezzled. 

This is where I grew up. 

This is where I grew proud. 

This is where neighbors never say music is too loud. 

This is where the streets have no name, but they have history. 

This is loss is victory. 

Oh my name it ain't nothing; my age it means less. 

The country I come from could be like the rest. 

I was taught and brought up there, laws to abide 

And the land that I live in has God on its side. 

I was young; I grew. I could tie my shoe. 

I was blind, but I knew that I would always see blue. 

Blue seas I see through on the bottom I'll meet you 

And when we come up for a breath would you mind if I kiss you? 

Childhood came up for the kiss, but it slips its pain in with mist 

And the sunny skies came and I missed it, 

Vanished and when swept. 

Landed we slept in the arms of convenience, blanket obedience. 

Now to some of the Americans, 

War had its day 

And the Civil War too was soon laid away 

And the names of our warlords 

I was made to memorize. 

With guns in their hands, they said, 

God's on their side. 

I had an undying wish to keep from dying. 

I had an untimely hitch keep me from climbing 

But I climbed a hitch itself and I tried flying. 

I had an uprising in my soul. 

The left was fight in the right 

And the right was fight in the light 

And the light was blind in the night 

And the night woke up in tears 

When my fingers went to wipe them 

They became a poem but to write then 

They would have to speak tears in another language 

That would take years. 

So now as I'm leavin' 

I'm weary as Hell 

The confusion I'm feelin' 

Ain't no tongue can tell 

The words fill my head 

And fall to the floor 

If God's on our side then would you ever need war? 

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