Show me the File
Lyrics
There's a box in a room with a number on the side Thirty years after Dallas, something disappeared inside They said the questions had been answered, said the case was closed But a man can't read what a man can't find And nobody knows what nobody knows
I don't know who fired that morning I don't know what they concealed But don't hand me half of history Then tell me the case is sealed
You can call me wrong You can prove me blind But if you want my trust Don't hide what I might find
Show me the file Show me the page Don't call me crazy For questioning power on a public stage If there's nothing there Throw the doors open wide You don't build trust with a secret If you've nothing to hide Don't destroy the file
There's a photograph taken underneath a black sky Some say it looks too perfect, some say that proves a lie I believe those boots touched the Moon I believe they crossed that plain But believing they got there Doesn't make every question insane
Some pictures came from training Some priceless tapes are gone So don't tell me important things can never disappear We already know they can
Show me the file Show me the page Don't call me crazy For questioning power on a public stage If there's nothing there Throw the doors open wide You don't build trust with a secret If you've nothing to hide Don't destroy the file
Five-twenty in Manhattan Another tower meets the ground No aeroplane had ever struck it Still it came straight down One room filled up with models Another room said they were wrong One side became "the experts" One was told they didn't belong
Maybe fire brought the building down Maybe every number fits But science dies a little When the argument is who gets to question it
Then a sickness came from Wuhan And the whole world closed its doors We were learning by the hour While certainty filled the floors A question became dangerous Before the evidence was in Years later that same question Was allowed back in again
Maybe nature found the pathway Maybe something slipped outside I don't claim to know the answer I remember how they treated those who tried
There are two easy kinds of people And both are easy to deceive One believes whatever power tells him One believes the opposite of what they believe
If I can tell you what to think By telling you what they think first You're not free because you're angry You've just learned to run in reverse
So I won't kneel to the official story And I won't worship every doubt Give me facts that I can question Give me light and let me work it out
Show us the file Show us the page We are not children And questions are not rage If there is nothing there Throw every door open wide Truth does not fear inspection And science does not need to hide
Show us the file Let every side inside Let the hostile questions test it Let the strongest answer rise You don't build trust with a secret You don't earn it with a lie
If you want us to trust you Then don't destroy the file
Keep the record Open the door Let us see what power saw
If you've nothing to hide Don't destroy the file