If you could see the women and children,
the people we've all laid to rest.
If you could bomb a city the size of Chicago here,
tell me where is your conscience now?

Destroy and rebuild; a campaign of contracts,
the shifting of power, deciet and lies.
You call it the idea of promoting democracy.
I call it a franchise.

Are you the person they sent to save me?
Cause I don't want to be saved.
Killing is easy when you don't see faces,
and you don't have to dig graves.

Culture as given, the American ideal
that there's only one way to live your lives.
There's no one there to help you when they start the bidding.
You're packaged and sold to the allies.

You broke down when you believed a single word
that self-motivated politician said.
You broke down, and when it's all over
we're left with the mess.

Are you the person they sent to save me?
Cause I don't want to be saved.
Killing is easy when you don't see faces,
and you don't have to dig graves.

You broke down and believed in this war.


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    I will take the honors and pop Smoke or Fire's comment virginity. What a beautiful piece of work here. I believe it's a warning against what is packaged to the public as to what to put your faith in. It's a warning against being seduced by the culture that surrounds us; the siren song that lures us into believing a war's alright or that certain agreements are justified.

    "Killing is easy when you don't see faces, and you don't have to dig graves."

    mmm....delicious.

    strikesomewhereon December 06, 2005   Link

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