[Verse 1] My whole family tree has got nothing to eat The machine guns guard the checkpoint From starving refugees So when I stop to pray for the fifth time today Still see my sister Alma With a hole in her skull As the tanks pulled away
[Chorus] Radicalized! Radicalized! Radical lies! Radical lies! I’m so surprised my mind’s a tug-o-war Radicalized! Radicalized! Radical lies! Radical lies! It’s no surprise my mind’s not mine no more
[Verse 2] Can’t afford no dream with a G.E.D Recruiter shook my brother’s hand Now he’s all he can be So when his team’s Humvee hit the I.E.D Me and my mother we cried In our new double wide Around the Christmas tree