Find it funny that armed forces
Try to recruit kids with pop-up centers
Made to appeal to them, lured
In with façades of glamor

This is what we call recruitment
Make a center in the city
Where the youth are disadvantaged
And foresee no better future

No job options near your home
Public transit non-existent
Trapped by housing much inflated
Smaller flats with higher rates

This is what we call recruitment
Make a center in the city
Where the youth are disadvantaged
And foresee no better future

Get some strapping young lad
To don his garb and regalia
Pins and medals shining brightly
In dark places he looks mighty

This is what we call recruitment
Make a center in the city
Where the youth are disadvantaged
And foresee no better future

I would like to know
What would happen if
At all these centers grabbing lives
We had a better option

This is what we call recruitment
Make a center in the city
Where the youth are disadvantaged
And foresee no better future

Some young people who have
Experience in the workplace
Education and knowledge
Of how to apply for jobs

This is what we call recruitment
Make a center in the city
Where the youth are disadvantaged
And foresee no better future

Give these impressionable youth
A contrary view of their future
Rather than cutting hair
And losing individuality

This is what we call recruitment
Make a center in the city
Where the youth are disadvantaged
And foresee no better future

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Don the military garb
Regulation looks
This is how some spend their time
Rather than reading books

Since our country won its war
Against England overseas
All the rich and wealthy classes
Haven’t been the ones to bleed

Discipline is through the roof
Artificial conformity
Don’t question your superiors
Sounds pretty democratic

Since our country won its war
Against England overseas
All the rich and wealthy classes
Haven’t been the ones to bleed

Follow orders blindly now
No idea why you’re there
Hoping you might make it home
Can’t imagine when or how

Since our country won its war
Against England overseas
All the rich and wealthy classes
Haven’t been the ones to bleed

Take a “tour,” more like crusade
Blasting, ripping, ruining lives
F*** civilians in their homes
This is where the Humvee drives

Since our country won its war
Against England overseas
All the rich and wealthy classes
Haven’t been the ones to bleed

Lure the artists with your pension
Get them to play in your band
Publicly they might look nice
Media plays into your hand

Since our country won its war
Against England overseas
All the rich and wealthy classes
Haven’t been the ones to bleed

Maybe bands come from the army
But now they’ve grown so much more
Mixed in lovely ways all around
Your old marches are a bore

Since our country won its war
Against England overseas
All the rich and wealthy classes
Haven’t been the ones to bleed

If I want to be inspired
I don’t need your drums of hatred
In tradition you’ve been mired
To your call I won’t be baited

Since our country won its war
Against England overseas
All the rich and wealthy classes
Haven’t been the ones to bleed

Since our country won its war
Against England overseas
All the rich and wealthy classes
Haven’t been the ones to bleed