Do you control what we enjoy
will my convictions surely die?
Armed and sent in a FedEx box
terrorizer is here at last.

Shoot them all until they're down
how did we come to be so fucked?
Hate crime, justified
our country just cheers us on.

Talk to me about heresy
Uncle Sam left again today.
Run your mouth, immoralize
future lost before our eyes.

Behind the curtain is The Man
who wrapped it up and black it out.
Acid rain felt today
all your hopes got burned and swept away.

Listen to celebrities
pulse of nation is in the third degree.
In the midst of all this gas
the ball went and dropped by all of us.
Capitalist democracy
I know I said that freedom's free.
Lady Liberty runs away
Truth and Justice and the American way.

Don't look past the TV
because that's all they want us to see.
A looking glass into our lives
what we are is what we buy.

Common sense is what we lack
please pull this knife from my back!
Never question, never stop
all your votes have been bought!

Game show scores is what we seek
the next Idol contestant of the week.
Couch-potato workout infomercial sale
arteries are clogged off the Richter scale.

Police brutality flash news report
tweeted and skyped by the ACLU board.
Elect that man in the three-piece suit
don't know his name, but I think he's cute!

Fake all the symmetries
a porn star movie goddess on his knees.
Hooked and plugged viral attack
your privacy has just been hacked.
Capitalist democracy
you really believed freedom's free?
Don't you mind a lie I say
Truth and Justice and the American way.

Does it fill you with disgust
not one politician left to trust?
This is happening, this is real
spoon-fed you through a happy meal.

Are you happy? Are you sad?
another Valium can’t be that bad.
I have no tears, I cannot cry
sitting numb as an election passes me by.

Land of opportunity bought and sold
denied immigration by border patrols.
Give the gift of hypocrisy
Hollywood teaches us everything.

Ticker tape says our hopes are down
another peaceful protest beaten to the ground.
The is doom, herald the end
you can watch it all on CNN.

Statistics poll our sympathies
holy righteous war-crime charities.
Someone went and erased my thoughts
that new flatscreen must be bought.
Capitalist democracy
we just sold out on 'freedom's free'!
Repeat every word I say
Truth and Justice and the American way.

06/21/2012