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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Unison Boots
Unison boots, Unison Boots
With steel in the toes
Better for kicking things out of the way,
Stamping way down whatever there is.
Unison boots, Unison Boots.
We follow our leader wherever he goes.
Unison boots, Unison boots.
Follow our leader, follow our leader
That is our training, wherever he goes.
Suppose, suppose, he does not know
Wherever he goes and if he knows
Or does not know wherever he goes
It does not matter that if he knows
Or does not know, we follow
We follow wherever he goes.
Unison boots, Unison boots.
Stamping out Truth wherever we go,
Stamping out life wherever we go.
People will love us wherever we go
Our government tells us this so.
Unison boots, Unison boots.
Suppose, suppose, it is not so,
We find instead that people hate us
Wherever we go.
Our leader sold us whatever he told us
And we believed whatever he sold us.
Unison boots, Unison boots.
Follower, follower, what now do you do?
You stamped out love in the name of love.
All in the name of God you went
All of your energies there were spent
Stamping out love.
Unison boots, Unison boots.
You stamped out love, you stamped in hate.
Look at the soles of your boots.
Look at the tracks you leave behind.
Turn and look at your tracks of hate.
Unison boots, Unison boots.
Reversing the letters God became dog.
You took out God. You kicked the dog
With the steel in your boot.
The dog went flying out into space
And you were left with dog on your face.
Unison boots, Unison boots.
You kicked at God and did not know it.
You saw dog and kicked it away
With the hate in your boots you kicked it away
Unison boots, Unison boots.
Take off those boots and throw them away.
Find a mirror, hold it in front,
Look at yourself, face your shame.
The dog you kicked becomes God again.
The tracks you leave become love again.
The tracks you leave have hope again.
Boots can be evil.
Boots can be good.
Where do they lead you?
It all depends upon the spelling
Of their soles – SoulsCompany Halt – At ease.