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salt of the earth - matthew grimm lyrics

[verse 1]
my dear grandma was the salt of the earth
and the pride of magnolia street
she never missed a sunday at grace lutheran
proud member of the moral majority
couldn’t do enough for you long as you’d accepted jesus
thought mexicans society’s bane
she said martin luther king was a commie troublemaker
and aids was god’s cleansing rain

[verse 2]
we’re the kind of folks who know where you come from
is all really anyone needs
traditional values, fear of god
fear of anyone
who looks, acts, or thinks a little differently
eschewed book*learning but showed up for book*burnings
cause ideas are how apostasy breeds
yet somehow we know everything about everything
and never met a war we couldn’t cheerlead

[chorus]
we’re the salt of the earth
we’re the last and the first
and we stand tall down on our knees
we’re the nose*led footsoldiers of n0bility
that’s kept us in our place for twenty centuries
we’re the rueful, dutiful, glory*hallelujah*ful
marching in fanatics’ thrall
the salt of the earth is no spice of life
it’s the poison that’ll end it all
[verse 3]
we’re the peasants who cheered as heretics burned
put synagogues to the torch
lined up to die for rich men’s right to own people
enforced apartheid a hundred years more
we gathered in the square to watch black men hang
like a friday night football game
we’ll greenlight genocide long as some charlatan
tells us it’s in jesus’ name

- matthew grimm lyrics

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