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Pilot Program

Tune: Leaving on a Jet Plane
Songwriter: Nora Freeman
Gaggle: New York City Metro
Human & Civil Rights War & Peace

This song was written with the assistance of Sunny Armer.

I’ve been arrested, don’t know what for

Arab or Muslim, that’s enough for

A one-way ticket to the black sites of hell

No contact with my family

No attorney can I see

I’m tormented, rotting in a cell

They put me on a jet plane

Don’t know if I’ll get home again

It don’t look like they’ll ever set me free

Put me on a jet plane

Don’t even know-o where I am

Kidnapped by the USA

Arabs ‘n’ Muslims are the pilot program

But don’t be fooled, your turn will come

Divide and conquer works: it’s tried and true

Beware incitement of your fears

For safety of your kids so dear

The powers that be are not concerned for you

Save them from that jet plane

We must break all the chains

Defend the human rights of all

To keep them off that jet plane

Stand up right now and proclaim

The Bill of Rights is meant for all

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