all good soldiers crack like boulders
The sun climbs up to a razon,
violins, new boots, and numbers on a chain
All good soldiers
all good soldiers fall in line
when they march and shout-
are a spectacle
marching and singing-
will go abnywhere the president says-
because the president believes in god-
like wait like warheads-
When the fighting starts who will
be accountable, a cannibal, a cannoball
It's six A.M. I can see my breath
and the clay dirt
is laughing at the weekling boy-
today is the day
that I'll write my friends
its something I've been
trying to remenber-
I had a dream of a wall
that was twenty-one stories tall...
All good soldiers fall in line
when they march and shout-
are a respectable
marching and signing-
will go anywhere the president says-
because the president believes in god-
like should


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    I've always thought that the army is sort of a necessary evil, but there's just so damn much to criticize. I think it's a bit over the top to say that soldiers obey the president because he believes in god (seriously, you think they aren't atheist soldiers? I bet you thousands of them love this band), but, at the same time, nothing is more obnoxious than people thinking that a war is going to go well for them (if war is something capable of going well) because some supernatural blah is on their side. Everyone thinks God is on their side.

    loserdorkon June 17, 2003   Link

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