Surveillance - I Was There lyrics

I was there when it all began When roots took hold in fertile soil A rumbling tension slowly built And I never said a thing I was there when the truncheons swung The choking burn of pepper spray The television said I'm safe So I never did a thing I was there when the bullets flew Golden wasps that seared the air Bodies fell in graceless arcs And I turned my gaze away I was there when cells slammed shut Gathered up and caged like beasts But freedom isn't lucrative And there's money to be made I was there when the fuse was lit A thunderclap of Heaven's wrath A million voices crying out But I never heard a thing I was there for the awful end The bodies strewn in ashen piles They told us this would keep us safe And we never learned a thing