Standard (EADGBE)

 Look how the ruts cling to my footsteps

 the fatal invisible tool

 by which we define we fight! for our approval

 and fear our removal from the safety of fools

 from the tidal forces of our positions

 not won not one! to take for granted

are our rebel hymns in canted

 to sing in the mines for the fortunate sons?

Brothers in spirit sisters in rage,

 will we live out our lives in this concrete cage?

 another heartbeat lost another police murder

buried in the public eyes on the back page.

 Heartbeats lost in a new world order

 hobbled and bound but still walking away

I pledge allegiance to the world

nothing more, nothing less than my humanity

I pledge allegiance to the world

searching for vision not invisibility

I pledge allegiance to the world

searching for vision not invisibility

I pledge allegiance to the world

 until the last lock breaks none of us are free

guitar 1)

-------- *same as intro*

guitar 2 plays the solo riff 2x)

we fight! to balance our minds

 petty powers pushing profits over our lifetimes

 world leaders mortaging our lives with words

 I don't need to be reminded of whom you really serve.

Brothers in spirit sisters in rage,

 will we live out our lives in this concrete cage?

 another heartbeat lost another police murder

buried in the public eyes on the back page.

Heartbeats lost in a new world order

standing alone with our backs to the maze

I pledge allegiance to the world

nothing more, nothing less than my humanity

I pledge allegiance to the world

until the last lock breaks none of us are free

I pledge allegiance to the world

until the last lock breaks none of us are free

I pledge allegiance to the world

 for nothing more, nothing less

 in justice in hunger united

searching for vision united

 in justice in hunger united

law and order but for whose order?

I pledge allegiance to the world

nothing more, nothing less than my humanity

I pledge allegiance to the world

until the last lock breaks none of us are free

I pledge allegiance to the world

under no nation will we ever be

I pledge allegiance to the world

 for nothing more, nothing less

To my humanity!

to my humanity!

to my humanity!

pledge allegiance!

to our humanity!

to our humanity!

to our humanity!

to the world!