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Prologue
01:25
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So close shaven, misbehavin’
This attorney needs some learnin’
All those hours spent in the gym
Didn’t do much good for him
Can he trace his ancestors to this country?
Wonder how long ‘til they felt at home in NYC...
Hook: Should have erred on the side of caution
But now Aaron’s gone and lost some
That kind of ignorance isn’t bliss
Now his life has gone amiss
So, Mr. Schlossberg, I have just a few words for you...
Verse 1: You’re absurd / du bist blöd
You’re a dingus / no Charles Mingus
Went to school, came out a fool
Take time to educate yourself
Invited people to berate yourself
Seem awfully irrate, yourself
Your actions might prostrate your self
You have some privilege / to live in the village
But since your outburst / which was not the first
You’ve lost your office / because you’re awful
Tried to say you’re not racist
Take an ICE cold shower
Rain on your May flower
Coal in your stocking
Until you stop talking
Hook
All right, Aaron...
Just one more message for you, okay?
I’ll make this one a little less personal
Verse 2: Anger toward the workers
Speaking their own tongues
He’ll regret the air
That came out of his lungs
Now it’s way too late to try
And disguise his hate
This disgraced attorney
Might even need a gurney
Practiced some in law
His words sharp like a claw
He’s so prejudiced
You might even guffaw
His whole racist rant
Captured on a phone
So now the people
Won’t leave him alone
Hook
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3. |
Perpetual State Of War
04:02
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Verse 1:
Markets said to be free
Go and breathe the air
If it isn’t poisoned
By companies, prepare
You will have to fight
Just to stay alive
If your vested interests
Aren’t nine to five
Hook:
They will say it’s stable
It is just a fable
But you break your back
To bring food to your table
This farce they call free
To spend time and explore
Is bought for you and me
By perpetual war
Verse 2:
We have allies, friends, all
Over the deep seas
But what is omitted in school
Is how they were treated
When we first met them
Forced open their ports
With our bigger guns, ships
Silenced their retorts
Hook
Verse 3:
Sometimes working classes
Rise up from their labor
Take some precious time out
Risking their lives on the line
Due to pallid squalor
Conditions abhorrent
Unfortunately government
Responds with a torrent (of)
Laws concocted to protect
Business interests connect
Both the parties long bought out
By wealthy families, no doubt
Use divisions of race and sex
To make sure we don’t connect
With the others feeling the same
So we cannot learn their names
Hook
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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
I’ve said it, I haven’t bled it
I’d love to respect the symbol
For all the good that it represents
But through the years of my learning
Memorizing isolated dates of battles and names of white army leaders
Nothing resonates, nothing inspires, and something is missing
I refuse to pledge an oath to something idle, as an idol
When its visage is abused by all the wealthy classes
Made to bring us all together for a common vision
One that surely benefits the military industry
Boost our economy, sell more arms
Pump more oil, cause more harm
Use and abuse the lives of the poor
So the already privileged can have much more
When was the last time aristocrats
Were in a battle, near gunfire and gats?
This common symbol is being used
To create artificial unity
Between the citizens of this country
Most of whom are being abused
Wealthy classes own our parties
Two sides of the very same coin
Pick their battles to divide us
So we cannot see their faces
I will not pledge my allegiance to a symbol
I will not give the benefit of the doubt to a government that throws away the lives of the poor and disenfranchised for the sake of capitalistic robbers and thieves
I will not gather around
I will not gather around
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The Espionage Act
04:20
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Congress passed and Woodrow Wilson
Signed the Espionage Act
Giving up to twenty years
Jail time to “whoever, when
The United States is at war,
Shall wilfully cause or attempt
To cause insubordination,
Disloyalty, mutiny, or
Refusal of duty in the
Military or naval
Forces of the United States,
Or shall wilfully obstruct
The recruiting or enlistment
Service of the United States.”
It was used to imprison
Americans who spoke or wrote
Against World War I
In 1963
Kennedy tried to apply it
To statements by Americans
Abroad to quiet critics
Of the Vietnam War.
It is constantly in force
Since the US has legally
Been in “state of emergency”
Since the 1950 Korean War
So-called freedom of speech
Lost when speaking for peace
It’s okay to share your voice
When your message means death
Living life on this Earth
Apparently can’t be healthy
Speak for yourself and the land
Help your friends and lend a hand
It’s okay to do that softly
Just make sure to keep quiet
Capitalist interests win
Over selfless caring when
Both our parties controlled by
Corporate interests dating back
Centuries when settlers attacked
Native peoples’ lives stolen
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6. |
Xeno(Phobia)
02:04
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Hook: Wars need an antagonist
Why else would you go enlist?
Make you angry, full of lust
Crave the danger, call it just
Verse 1: Demonize, dehumanize
Until you can realize
Your prejudice fueled by fervor
Nationalist in their eyes
You’re just doing what’s right
Signing up to join this fight
Got to stop the virus spreading
Fight for your fancy new bedding
Hook
Verse 2: Over time the media blitz
Makes you yearn to make some hits
Those foul people over there
Uncivilized, best prepare
They’re a threat to your just being
In this country, blind believing
Maybe you had no job option
Your frustration redirected
Towards the others far worse off
Wealthy leaders not suspected
Pledge your life to-ward this cause
Violence now gives you no pause
In the law’s written a clause
Bow your head to your new boss
Hook
HATE THE OTHERS / KILL YOUR BROTHERS
GET SOME BLISTERS / SLAYING SISTERS
SHOOT WITH EASE, DESTROY FAMILIES
YOU’RE DEPLOYED AND THEY’RE DESTROYED x3
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7. |
For Which It Stands
01:26
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Verse 1: Raise your first but don’t resist
Here’s something you can understand
You are free to live and exist
As long as you choose to stand
Hook: “For which it stands” – genocide of millions
“For which it stands” – massive slave trade
“For which it stands” – patriarchy
“For which it stands” – exploitation
Verse 2: How can people say “defense” and keep a straight face?
How can we pretend this joker is straight-laced?
Don’t worry, you can be sexually free
As long as it’s straight-based
Hook
Verse 3: Act as if our economic and politic system
Treats everyone fairly everywhere across the globe
They’re both gifts from God that we decide to share
It’s not our fault if others don’t love us
Hook
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8. |
Artificial Sweeteners
01:33
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Verse 1: Palettes cleansed by additives so toxic
All the taste washed from your tongue
Just like air pollutants so cheap
You’re forced to breathe them in
Faces drenched in chemicals made to
Make them attractive to mates,
Mates whose expectations are based on
Plastic, fabricated myths
Hook: Cook me a meal, so real, so raw
Bake me a cognitive cake of my dreams
I can’t believe it’s allowed by the law
To favor companies who will cause screams
Verse 2: Shards of glass and chunks of plastic
Float up to the ocean’s lip
Wishing this crisis weren’t drastic
But we’ve only seen the tip
Our senses numbed by TV
Artificial sweeteners
Demagogues who promise glory
Expectations ever higher
Hook
Verse 3: Life devoid of harsh reality
I want my skin toned like hers
Make our babies entertained
Be a man like Cadet Bone Spurs
Filling life with pointless garbage
Check my abs; they’re not tight enough
My library full of Playboy
Need my girlfriend to be a “10”
Buy the biggest, fastest car
Drive its engine to the dust
Consumerism goes so far
It’s the only thing I trust
Who needs caring? Who needs culture?
I’ll be daring; I will puncture
All the previous limits of
Exploitation blown to bits
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9. |
I'll Look Away
03:30
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Verse 1: How dare you be a mess?
Why don’t you say, “God bless?”
You don’t look good in that dress
It’s your job to impress
What a failure you are
Driving that rusty car
I don’t want you in my house
I have high standards / you’re not up to par
Hook: I’ll look away if you’re hurt
I’ll look away when you fail
I’ll look away if suffering’s real
I’ll look away when things aren’t ideal
Verse 2: Why can’t you just walk straight?
Pull yourself up like a man
Fix up that leg that bends weird
Think you can’t help it? Surgery can
Just make more money and fix your sad life
That ugly hairdo? Fix it with a knife
Making excuses for your situation
You’ll regret it for the rest of your life
Hook
You should be smiling like on TV
Make the world brighter for you and me
If I took over you’d worship my feet
The best government is democracy
Fueled by the money and hatred and greed
Capitalistic is my only creed
Read from the scripture and I don’t see you
Oh, that’s so sad, now I bid you “adieu”
Hook x2
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10. |
False Promises
02:57
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Verse 1: Dreams of rags to riches
Filling us with hope
Anyone can make it
As long as they can cope
With some overtime work
Back-breaking, without pay
You will surely make it
If you only stay
Hook: Ideals unrealistic
Idols nonexistent
All our hopes and dreams
Built on false promises
Verse 2: Chroniclers of our history
Stuff the books with lies
Only focus on successes
They don’t realize
That everyday people
Need something to grasp
Not those wealthy, white men
With fortunes in their laps
Hook x2
I have stopped listening to broadcasts so toxic
Flicked off the switch of the TV so pointless
I’ve closed the covers of histories so biased
Now is the time to make futures x2
Hook x2
I have stopped listening to broadcasts so toxic
Flicked off the switch of the TV so pointless
I’ve closed the covers of histories so biased
Now is the time to make futures x2
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11. |
No Place For Hate
03:40
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Verse 1: Granted, “founders” caused genocide
That part of our history can’t hide
And with our perspective comes a
Need to rectify our errors
Promise our kids we’ll do better
Make them proud by our good actions
Now we know the truth can’t hide, we’ll
Fill their little hearts with pride
Verse 2: Native peoples killed for their land
Despite how they lent us a hand
Exploited down to the yard, it
Mattered not that they worked hard, we
Lied and cheated, stole and slaughtered
Made up rules and then we bartered
All with no shred of decency
I feel shame for all who’re to blame
Hook: Light this fire / Stop the hate
We’ll inspire / Not too late
Cause no ire / Don’t frustrate
No empire / We’ll do great x2
Hook
Our dark history we’ll defy
(Through) exploitation rectified
I hope you appreciate that
This is now no place for hate x4
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12. |
Epilogue
01:45
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