[Lyric] Salt of the Earth (Matthew Grimm)

[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 nobility
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

[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 nobility
That's kept us in our place for twenty centuries
We're the rueful, dutiful, glory-hallelujah-ful
Marching in faschists' thrall
The salt of the Earth is no spice of life
It's the poison that'll end it all
Yeah, the salt of the Earth is no spice of life
It's the poision that'll end it all