What exactly do we teach ?

Teachers aren’t just those that stand in classrooms sharing views
But everyone whose outlook in a child’s mind accrues
Small cerebral sponges soaking up all that they see
Do we pass down our own cells or teach them to be free ?

Square eyed flesh production lines that learn from TV’s glow
And gold is all it takes to spread the legs of what they show
Its hypnotising view may occupy but at what cost ?
A nation of the spoon fed and a generation lost

Celebrating killers because they wave familiar flags
While we radiate others countries, condemn their sons to body bags
Thieves that come in heroes guise with lies of liberation
Wave your flag, and never question the motives of your nation

Pinning human emotions to a dictator in the sky
A god of love to whom forgiveness seems to pass most often by
Carrying his message through the barrel of a gun
They claim to be his followers but it was those who killed his son

Our nations are run by demagogues concerned with their own wealth
They’re loud about another’s faults, and cover theirs with stealth
Whores who sell us out for gold from the major corporations
Silver tongued and suited despots who will kill to hold their stations

A system built on racism, a history coloured white
Deeming those as terrorists who choose to stand and fight
A sympathy that reaches only as far as our skin tone
People crying out for help and only backs are shown

A world where Martin Luther King and Lennon are assassinated
And false prophets like Obama are all lauded, praised and feted
Where indigenous communities still feel apartheids touch
And we show them that their lives compared to our are not worth much

Where Palestine is still ignored and her children left to die
Where we swallow blue starred excuses and we never question why
Where countless countries are torn apart for that black bubbling gold
We rape to keep our lifestyles and the cars on lots stay sold

We teach that acts of aggression by the strong are natures way
And that those with less will lose their wares, along with any say
That money, looks and fame are all that matter any more
Just follow what the others do, and come check out the store

Environmental degradation, the planets dying throes
What will you explain to them when the last wildlife goes ?
Do you think they’ll understand that we did it for ourselves ?
To keep ourselves in comfort and our products on the shelves

Brand names mean way more than simply love within a heart
We have lost our way completely, now unsure of where to start
Our lives no more than 9 to 5, and what numbs us in between
The bottle, bong or needle, and dont forget the glowing screen

So think a little further about the things we teach the young
Do we want them to know love or will they on fears gallows be hung ?
For that fear will lead us further down into this deep abyss
Whilst love will shine a light to cure this dark paralysis