I wish I was elsewhere I wish I was else-when Than after the Patriot Act In a lonely final stand The night was like any other My wife and son were in bed When I awoke from slumber And walked barefoot to the den I didn't turn on any lights Because the house was mine I knew every turn and crevice Could move like a cat in the dark I wish I was elsewhere I wish I was else-when Than remembering the moments After the door was rammed I hear glass break upstairs And then concussion grenades Lit up the bedrooms above me With roar fit to wake the dead My wife and I had assumed That intruders were just a gang For we'd never done anything To merit this pre-dawn raid My wife and son tried to fight The ninjas behind bright lights But they were alone and stunned I heard rattle of MP-fives I wish I was elsewhere I wish I was else-when And not in my ruined home With my family freshly dead I thought to my self: "I am dreaming" This gang just couldn't be Feds But they acted just as one would expect Shooting women and children dead They hadn't found me yet As I wasn't asleep in bed My deer rifle was close by What I wanted to say, it said I retreated and so did they Watching me from the outside From the basement I still could tell That they set my house on fire In the choking smoke, I could just wait Barefoot on cement basement floor I wanted to take just one more of them On my journey to the Beyond I wish I was elsewhere I wish I was else-when Instead of this cold basement At bay like a cornered rat One more coal-scuttle helmet Came up above barricade And though my hands were shaky I connected the one shot I made The heat got beyond enduring But the smoke, it got me first And the house became a pyre For me and two other corpses The newspapers ran the story That a three-person terrorist cell Were taken down in pre-dawn hours And that two brave policemen fell I wish I was elsewhere I wish I was else-when Perhaps in the Sherwood Forest With like-minded armed men