This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
This is breaking news
It appears that Air Force One was shot down
Somewhere over the Middle East this morning
By a sleeper cell of rogue terrorists, firing a Stinger Missile
The Pilot and all passengers are unaccounted for
The President's whereabouts are presently unknown
And he is presumed missing
The Vice President, Secretary of State,
And principals of the military are assembling
Our nation stands at Defcon 3
The greatest crisis, will someone come for me?
I "red, white and blew it"
Unleashed revenge, my body is detained
How could anybody do this?
Betrayal, I peel away the days
Medals are useless, Uncle Sam's forgotten me
I'm not important, no one will ever come
I'll never be found, God get me out of this hell
Nuclear battlefields energized
Cold wars are heating up again
The tensions mounting
People lift up your fists in revenge
The stage is set
Who will be the first to blink?
We can't go to war
Remember that "Vietnam thing"
Peace at any price
With a gun to your head, bang, bang
Weakness runs in your family
What runs in mine is death
This is your 5 minute warning
Burn all your classified documents
And if cooler heads don't prevail
First strike from a political dead man
Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive
He understands only one language, action!
And he respects only one word, force!
No sign of them stopping,
No time for back channel communiques
We need all the help we can get, air strikes and invasions!
Retaliate, I say!
The will of good men can not counter the terrible strain of war
Blackmail the Universe with the greatest of calamities
Awaken those sleeping giants in the dust of the ground
With their skin destroyed, unjust to innocence
Lawful possessor of the world's last 24 hours
Terror and ugliness reveal what death really means
And in hatred you see men as they really are
If chosen over heaven, Earth will have been for them
All along, only another region of hell
It appears that Air Force One was shot down
Somewhere over the Middle East this morning
By a sleeper cell of rogue terrorists, firing a Stinger Missile
The Pilot and all passengers are unaccounted for
The President's whereabouts are presently unknown
And he is presumed missing
The Vice President, Secretary of State,
And principals of the military are assembling
Our nation stands at Defcon 3
The greatest crisis, will someone come for me?
I "red, white and blew it"
Unleashed revenge, my body is detained
How could anybody do this?
Betrayal, I peel away the days
Medals are useless, Uncle Sam's forgotten me
I'm not important, no one will ever come
I'll never be found, God get me out of this hell
Nuclear battlefields energized
Cold wars are heating up again
The tensions mounting
People lift up your fists in revenge
The stage is set
Who will be the first to blink?
We can't go to war
Remember that "Vietnam thing"
Peace at any price
With a gun to your head, bang, bang
Weakness runs in your family
What runs in mine is death
This is your 5 minute warning
Burn all your classified documents
And if cooler heads don't prevail
First strike from a political dead man
Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive
He understands only one language, action!
And he respects only one word, force!
No sign of them stopping,
No time for back channel communiques
We need all the help we can get, air strikes and invasions!
Retaliate, I say!
The will of good men can not counter the terrible strain of war
Blackmail the Universe with the greatest of calamities
Awaken those sleeping giants in the dust of the ground
With their skin destroyed, unjust to innocence
Lawful possessor of the world's last 24 hours
Terror and ugliness reveal what death really means
And in hatred you see men as they really are
If chosen over heaven, Earth will have been for them
All along, only another region of hell
Lyrics submitted by Dr_Colossus
Blackmail the Universe Lyrics as written by Dave Mustaine
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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heh, i repeat everything in that first paragraph to a tee, maybe been in to them for longer tho.
where it comes in with the lyrics 'blackmail the universe' is real powerful. its a great opener to a set.
maybe the first two paragraphs are from the prez's perspective. then the rest on a cold war-like build up.
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where it comes in with the lyrics 'blackmail the universe' is real powerful. its a great opener to a set.
maybe the first two paragraphs are from the prez's perspective. then the rest on a cold war-like build up.
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this song really reminds me of the movie "thirteen days" because i was just watching it in my u.s. history class and the whole thing is just about the cuban missile crisis.
anyways, at one point in the movie 'president kennedy' is sitting around with his advisors and what not and they say :
"Peace at any price" "Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive He understands only one language - action And he respects only one word - force"
and the whole thing just reminded me of this song because of that and in the song it's saying cold war and nuclear battlefields and everything going on during that time
to me, this just seems like a different cause to nuclear war but with the same actions/ effects taking place with the cuban missile crisis/ cold war.
"Who will be the first to blink?" -one quote from a cuban missile crisis period was something like "they just blinked first"
"weakness runs in the family" the kennedy family was always told they were weak. mostly jfk because he didnt go straight to war with cuba or call in air strikes on the missiles that werent active yet. it goes along with the movie "thirteen days" about how his brother robert is weak too and same with their father.
"air strikes and invasions"
"political dead man"
but the cuban missile crisis was in 1962, "remember that vietnam thing" vietnam war came in the late 60's/ early 70's so that's just the part that doesnt make sense. anyways, yeah.
"This is your 5 minute warning" --the missiles from cuba would take just about 5 minutes to reach washington dc
The 5 minute warning part made me think of US embassies in other countries - hence 'burn all your classified documents'. There wouldn't be much need to burn them in a nuclear war, the warhead would do it for you. :P
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Parts of the lyrics are quotes from the movie "Thirteen Days", that might be why it reminds you of the movie.