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AMERICAN NIGHTMARE

Contributed by Steeleyes on Sunday, 4th January 2004 @ 07:01:47 PM in AEST
Topic: political

Come on y‘all get into line
Everythin‘s gonna be just fine
For Mom, Apple Pie and Holy God
I swear it‘s not a firin' squad...

You can leave your brain right at the door
I swear you won‘t need that any more
Forget your conscience you don‘t need it
Why worry? Consume it and greed it!

Don‘t concern yourself 'bout all that killin‘
Just stuff your face when you‘re willin‘
Don‘t think! Just eat!
Forget the real and your mind's defeat

Get back to the trough
And off the streets
Hang real happy off
MacDonald‘s teats

Forget the gap between
What IS and what MIGHT be
Just lose yourself
In this U.S. fantasy

Livin‘ fat off the land
Drinkin‘ beer and livin' religious
But don‘t ask me to love my neighbour
What‘s mine won‘t be his!

We want it all
We are arrogant enough
To eat up the world
Anyways... what‘s it worth?

I‘ll tell you a hundred times
How we are the best
We‘re certainly fatter
than the rest!

Whatever you have
We have it much bigger
Yeah, we can SAY that
Though never BEEN there

We tell each other
Day on day
There is nothing better
than the American way

We don‘t even consider...
We know nothing else...
We just know what we know
… more or less

And if you call that ignorance
Then I guess that‘s so
I‘m sorry I can‘t help that
It‘s just something I „know“

I‘m in this belief bubble
Don‘t see through my eyes
I believe what I like
And like to fantasise

You know they talk of
this „Land of the Free“
But so many lies just confirm
The brainwash of me

It‘s more comfortable to believe
I‘m top, I‘m strong, I‘m best
It‘s so reassuring to believe
We‘re superior to the rest

It‘s not that I refuse to care
It‘s just I‘ve nothing to compare
All my friends think same as me
And if they don‘t it's anarchy

I can‘t see the alternative to all this
It‘s just our way of living
I‘m truly sorry if it comes to you
Don‘t start eating or stop giving

Don‘t grow arrogant and stupid like us
Don‘t hate thought or grow fat
Don‘t honour brainless braggarts
Your life needn‘t BE like that

Don‘t watch our moronic TV
Don‘t believe the latest shock hype
Don‘t reinforce your ignorance
Wonder has MORE than one type

Although we see ourselves as
Lord God‘s supreme
Please forgive us our ignorance
Your nightmare. Our dream .

Copyright Â© Steeleyes ... [ 2004-01-04 19:01:47]
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