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Date Posted: 23:16:56 08/04/02 Sun
Author: The Serpent
Subject: Reposting this because I think some people might have missed it.

Stars And Stripes Of Corruption

Finally got to Washington
In the middle of the night
I couldn't wait
I headed straight for the Capitol Mall

My heart was pounding fast
Yahoo! It really exists
The American International Pictures logo

I looked up at the Capitol building
Couldn't help but wonder why
I felt like saying, "Hello, old friend"

Walked up the hill to touch it
Then I unzipped my pants
And pissed on it
When nobody was looking

Like a great eternal Klansmen
With his two flashing red eyes
Turn around, he's always watching
The Washington monument pricks the sky
With flags like pubic hair
Ringed around the bottom

The symbols of our heritage
Lit up proudly in the night
Somehow fits to see the homeless people
Passed out on the lawn

So this is where it happens
The power games and the bribes
All lobbing for a piece of ass

Of the stars and stripes of corruption

Makes me feel so ashamed
To be an American
When we're too stuck up
To learn from our mistakes

Trying to start another Vietnam
Just fiddling
While Rome burns at home
The Boss says, "You're laid off,
Blame the Japanese"

"America's back," all right
At the game it plays the worst
Strip mining the world like a slave plantation

No wonder others hate us
And the Hitlers we hand pick
To bleed their people dry
For our evil empire

The drug we're fed
To make us like it
Is God and country with a bang

People we know
Who should know better
Howl, "America rules, Let's go to war!"

Business scams are what we're dying for

Are the Saudies our worst enemy?
We're destroying ourselves instead
Who cares about our civil rights
As long as I get paid?

The blind ME generation
Doesn't care if life's a lie
So easily used, so easily enforced

The stars and stripes of corruption

Let's bring it all down!

Tell me who's the real patriots
The Archie Buncker slobs waving flags
Or the people with the guts to work
For some real change?

Rednecks and bombs don't make us strong
We loot the world
Yet we can't even feed ourselves
Our real test of strength is caring
Not the war toys we sell the world

Just carry on
Thankful to be farmed like worms
Old glory for a blanket
And suck on your thumbs

Real freedom scares you
Cuz it means responsibility

So you chicken out and threaten me?

Saying, "Love it, or leave it"
I'll get beat up if I criticize it

You say you'll fight to the death
To save your useless flag
If you want a banana republic that bad
Why don't you go move to one?

But what can just one of us do
Against all that money and power
Trying to crush us all like roaches?

We won't destroy society in a day
Until we change ourselves first
From the inside out

We can start by not lying so much
And treating other people like dirt
It's so easy not to base our lives
On how much we can scam
And you know,
It feels good to lift that monkey off our back

I'm thankful I live in a place
Where I can say the things I do
Without being taken out and shot
So I'm on guard against the goons
Trying to take my rights away
We've got to rise above the need
For cops and laws

Let the kids learn communication
Instead of the schools pushing competition
How about more art and theater
Instead of sports?

People will always do drugs
Let's legalize them
Crime drops
When the mob can't price them

Budget's in the red?
Let's tax religion

No one will do it for us
We'll just have to fix it ourselves
Honesty ain't all that hard
Just put Triple X back in your pants
Causing trouble for the system
Is much more fun

Thank you for the toilet paper
But your flag is meaningless to me
Look around, we're all people
Who needs countries anyway?

Our land, I love it too
I think I love it more than you
I care enough to fight

The stars and stripes of corruption

Let's bring it all down!

If we don't try
If we just lie
If we can't find
A way to do better than this

Who will?

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Replies:

Question... -- Lona, 20:18:27 08/05/02 Mon
- Re: Not a specific generation. -- The Serpent, 22:25:12 08/05/02 Mon
  - *sigh* -- Lona, 13:03:52 08/06/02 Tue
    - Re: Because it makes too many good points that can't be argued with? -- The Serpent, 22:41:30 08/06/02 Tue
      - Or... -- Lona, 01:09:18 08/07/02 Wed
        Re: Riiiiight -- The Serpent, 04:10:54 08/07/02 Wed
        *sigh* -- Lona, 16:49:13 08/07/02 Wed