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Ashcroft

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If what it boils down to / Is that "you're either for us or against us" / I guess I've got a tough, tough choice to make / Cause hollow patriotic actions and reenactments / Don't move me / and mostly / this 21st century / Brand of propaganda and rhetoric / Co produced by Disney / and sanitised by CGI / just makes me sick / and when I peer through the red the white, / and through the blue / I can see people like you / Using tragedy to advance your own narrow moral crusade

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inretrospect On Jul 01, 2002

Rum, Romanism And Tammany

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by aaron19

21y ago

this is one of the catchiest songs i've ever heard.

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by NickE

20y ago

right it's fairly obvious what this song means, a big 'fuck you' to corporate america.

"Using tragedy to advance your own narrow moral crusade"

a nice little 9/11 reference their.

it's a pretty good song, lyrically, and musically it kicks more arse than ANYTHING.

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by joekop

16y ago

Not really a "fuck you" to corporate america as much as it is to the Bush administration. "Using a tragedy to advance your own narrow moral crusade." They just throw in the part about Disney and CGI for extra shots.

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