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Love Is. . . (The Only Weapon With Which I Got To Lyrics
If by any chance you would make a mistake
to try to come in and take any one of us
We will not let you, you will die
You will have to take anybody over all of our dead bodies
*crowd cheering*
Love is the only weapon SHIT! BULLSHIT!
Martin Luther King died with love!
Kennedy died talking about something he couldn't even understand
some kind of generalized love
and he never even back it up! He was shot down!
Bullshit! 'Love is the only weapon with which I got to fight'
I got a hell of a lot more weapons to fight!
I got my claws, I got cutlasses, I got guns, I got dynamite!
I got a hell of a lot to fight!
I'll fight! I'll fight! Ahhhh!
I will fight! I will fight! I will fight! I will fight!
*crowd cheering*
Let them hear it in the night!
*crowd cheering*
Ahhhhh! *unintelligible*
Let the night roar! They're out there, they're out there,
they're listening!
Let the night roar with it!
Ahhhhh!
Let the night roar
Because they can hear us!
They know we mean it
We'll kill them if they come!
*crowd cheering*
to try to come in and take any one of us
We will not let you, you will die
You will have to take anybody over all of our dead bodies
*crowd cheering*
Martin Luther King died with love!
Kennedy died talking about something he couldn't even understand
some kind of generalized love
and he never even back it up! He was shot down!
Bullshit! 'Love is the only weapon with which I got to fight'
I got a hell of a lot more weapons to fight!
I got my claws, I got cutlasses, I got guns, I got dynamite!
I got a hell of a lot to fight!
I'll fight! I'll fight! Ahhhh!
I will fight! I will fight! I will fight! I will fight!
*crowd cheering*
*crowd cheering*
Ahhhhh! *unintelligible*
Let the night roar! They're out there, they're out there,
they're listening!
Let the night roar with it!
Ahhhhh!
Let the night roar
Because they can hear us!
They know we mean it
We'll kill them if they come!
*crowd cheering*
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I made this second lyric page for this song because the other one was incorrect.
The lyrics to this song are a speech that was delivered by Jim Jones of the Jonestown Massacre in Guyana in 1978 some time before the mass suicide. They all drank poisoned Kool-Aid (which is the origin of the saying "drinking the Kool-Aid")
The lyric "Let them hear it in the night" refers to those who Jones claimed would surround the Jonestown compound in order to capture Jones due to human right issues and murders, notably of the US Congressman Leo Ryan.
More info about this specific speech can be found here: bit.ly/ixC15P
Also, for what it's worth, the definitive book about the whole Jonestown incident came out in 1982 and is entitled, "Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People". The name of this Odawas album is "Raven and the White Night". In addition, in the documentary about Jonestown (titled "Jonestown" and released by PBS), Jim Jones says, in reference to dying, the phrase "getting to another plane", which is the title of a song on this album. I'm sure there are other connections between this album and Jonestown (I believe Jones' voice is also heard on "The Maddening of Raven" [there's the word "Raven" again]). Truly a wonderfully chilling and haunting album.