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Hang your collar up inside
Hang your dollar on me
Listen to the water still
Listen to the causeway
You are mad and educated
Primitive and wild
Welcome to the occupation
Here we stand and here we fight
All your fallen heroes
Held and dyed and skinned alive
Listen to the Congress fire
Offering the educated
Primitive and loyal
Welcome to the occupation
Hang your collar up inside
Hang your freedom higher
Listen to the buyer still
Listen to the Congress
Where we propagate confusion
Primitive and wild
Fire on the hemisphere below
Sugar cane and coffee cup
Copper, steel and cattle
An annotated history
The forest for the fire
Where we open up the floodgates
Freedom reigns supreme
Fire on the hemisphere below
Listen to me
Listen to me
Listen to me
Listen to me
Listen to me
Listen to me
Listen to me
Hang your dollar on me
Listen to the water still
Listen to the causeway
You are mad and educated
Primitive and wild
Welcome to the occupation
Here we stand and here we fight
All your fallen heroes
Held and dyed and skinned alive
Listen to the Congress fire
Offering the educated
Primitive and loyal
Welcome to the occupation
Hang your collar up inside
Hang your freedom higher
Listen to the buyer still
Listen to the Congress
Where we propagate confusion
Primitive and wild
Fire on the hemisphere below
Sugar cane and coffee cup
Copper, steel and cattle
An annotated history
The forest for the fire
Where we open up the floodgates
Freedom reigns supreme
Fire on the hemisphere below
Listen to me
Listen to me
Listen to me
Listen to me
Listen to me
Listen to me
Listen to me
Lyrics submitted by xpankfrisst
Welcome to the Occupation Lyrics as written by Peter Buck Bill Berry
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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At the time the song was written, the "occupation" of most of Latin America was economic rather than military.
While I don't claim to know the exact date when this song was written, Document came out in 1987. I'm not sure where you're considering the line between "economic" and "military" to be drawn (seems to me it's kind of like talking about the "Russian mafia"), particularly when referring to such activities as providing not only funds but arms and personnel for training to the Contras and various authoritarian regimes (mainly military dictatorships, like that in Guatemala). In several cases the U.S.'s actions were condemned internationally, and in at least one that I know of the International Court of Justice decided against the U.S., but Reagan (and later George H.W. Bush) refused to pay reparations, and the U.S. used its veto power to prevent the U.N. from passing a resolution asking it to do so (this seemed to me particularly petty since it was a non-binding resolution). Frankly, a lot of people worldwide consider that the Reagan administration was guilty of human rights violations for providing a variety of aid to governments and terrorist groups that were notorious for engaging in torture, murder of noncombatant civilians, "disappearing" people, etc.; it certainly was a violation of international law. (Reagan also, ah, sidestepped several U.S. laws. Remember something called the Iran-Contra affair?)