Whip the ice cream, make a shake
Whip the batter, make a cake
Whip the eggs and serve with steak
Whip the slaves and make them ache

Melt the butter, melt the shake
Burn the Chicken, burn the cake
Kill the people with a stake
From the dead they'll never wake

Aim to kill and kill to aim
For a better life
Will you ever feel shame?
Wipe the blood stains off your knife

Kill the people, kill them all
Kill the ones who've seen you fall
Watch their life make it's withdrawal
When you stop is not our call

See the blood and feel pain
From the people you have slain
Slowly you're going insane
Slowly killing your own brain

Aim to kill and kill to aim
For a better life
Will you ever feel shame?
Another blood stain on your knife
Your knife

When will you
When will you see the light?
And will you
Will you ever stop and see what's goin' on?
Cause I don't know what to do about it
I don't know what to think about it
I don't know what to think at all
Just tell me how to make it stop

Yeah

Tell me how to make it stop
Tell me how to make it stop
Stop, yeah

Cause I don't know what to do about it
I don't know what to think about it
I don't know what to think at all

Aim to kill and kill to aim
For a better life
Will you ever feel shame?
Another blood stain on your knife

Aim to kill and kill to aim
For a better life
Will you ever feel shame?
Please just put away your knife
Put away your knife
Put away your knife
Put away your knife


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    That was <i>not</i> worth posting in three different places

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