TRIPWIRE-Elvis Costello/The Roots

[00:09.00]Just because you don’t speak the language [00:13.17]Doesn’t mean that you can’t understand [00:17.57]Just because you don’t speak the language [00:22.32]Doesn’t mean that you can’t understand [00:26.64]The twist in the script of the insult [00:31.27]Scrawled on the back of your hand [00:35.73]Torn from the pages of scripture [00:40.38]Sprayed on the wall in the frays of a flag [00:45.03]Kisses forbidden on lips [00:49.23]And all of your fine clothes worn into rags [00:54.16]Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire, tripwire [01:02.86]There’s a tripwire [01:05.38]Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire [01:11.88]Don’t open the door ‘cos they’re coming [01:16.56]Don’t open the door ‘cos they’re here [01:20.88]Above there’s an ominous humming [01:25.42]Below there’s a murmur of prayer [01:30.28]Torn from the pages of scandal [01:34.40]Sprayed on a wall in the frays of the flag [01:39.03]Kisses forbidden on lips [01:43.45]And all of your fine clothes blown into rags [01:48.09]Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire, tripwire [01:56.87]There’s a tripwire [01:59.66]Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire [02:06.06]There’s a cross in the line there’s a circus [02:10.43]There’s a voice that you might overhear [02:14.87]There’s a lens making the picture perfect [02:19.34]They say you have nothing to fear [02:23.91]Torn from the pages of pamphlets [02:28.39]Thrown in the air like confetti in church [02:33.12]Far, far away there’s a target [02:37.79]And the sound of an army just starting to march [02:41.98]Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire, tripwire [02:50.50]There’s a tripwire [02:53.36]Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire [02:59.91]Just because I don’t read the language [03:04.49]Doesn’t mean that I'm blind to the threat [03:09.01]Though I thought there was more to forgiveness [03:13.30]Than all we conveniently forget [03:17.91]Torn from the pages of history [03:22.23]Repeated again and again and again [03:26.81]You’re either for or against us [03:31.31]And that is how the hatred begins [03:36.01]Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire, tripwire [03:44.75]There’s a tripwire [03:47.10]Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire...