Stars And Stripes Of Corruption

<br>Finally got to Washington in the middle of the night<br><br>I couldn`t wait<br><br>I headed straight for the Capitol Mall <br><br>My heart began to pound<br><br>Yahoo! It really exists<br><br>The American International Pictures logo <br><br><br><br>I looked up at that Capitol Building<br><br>Couldn`t help but wonder why<br><br>I felt like saying "Hello, old friend" <br><br><br><br>Walked up the hill to touch it<br><br>Then I unzipped my pants<br><br>And pissed on it when nobody was looking <br><br><br><br>Like a great eternal Klansman<br><br>With his two flashing red eyes<br><br>Turn around he`s always watching<br><br>The Washington monument pricks the sky<br><br>With flags like pubic hair ringed `round the bottom <br><br><br><br>The symbols of our heritage<br><br>Lit up proudly in the night<br><br>Somehow fits to see the homeless people<br><br>Passed out on the lawn <br><br><br><br>So this is where it happens<br><br>The power games and bribes<br><br>All lobbying for a piece of ass <br><br><br><br>Of the stars and stripes of corruption <br><br>Makes me feel so ashamed<br><br>To be an American<br><br>When we`re too stuck up to learn from our mistakes<br><br>Trying to start another Viet Nam<br><br>Whilke fiddling while Rome burns at home<br><br>The Boss says, "You`re laid off. Blame the Japanese" <br><br>"America`s back," alright<br><br>At the game it plays the worst<br><br>Strip mining the world like a slave plantation <br><br><br><br>No wonder others hate us<br><br>And the Hitlers we handpick<br><br>To bleed their people dry<br><br>For our evil empire <br><br><br><br>The drug we`re fed<br><br>To make us like it<br><br>Is God and country with a band <br><br><br><br>People we know who should know better<br><br>Howl, "America riles. Let`s go to war!"<br><br>Business scams are what`s worth dying for <br><br><br><br>Are the Soviets our worst enemy?<br><br>We`re destroying ourselves instead<br><br>Who cares about our civil rights<br><br>As long as I get paid? <br><br><br><br>The blind Me-Generation<br><br>Doesn`t care if life`s a lie <br><br><br><br>so easily used, so proud to enforce <br><br><br><br>The stars and stripes of corruption <br><br>Let`s bring it all down! <br><br>Tell me who`s the real patriots <br><br>The Archie Bunker slobs waving flags? <br><br>Or the people with the guts to work <br><br>For some real change <br><br>Rednecks and bombs don`t make us strong<br><br>We loot the world, yet we can`t even feed ourselves<br><br>Our real test of strength is caring<br><br>Not the toys of war we sell the world <br><br>Just carry on, thankful to be farmed like worms<br><br>Old glory for a blanket<br><br>As you suck on your thumbs <br><br><br><br>Real freedom scares you<br><br>`Cos it means responsibility <br><br><br><br>So you chicken out and threaten me <br><br><br><br>Saying, "Love it or leave it"<br><br>I`ll get beat up if I criticize it<br><br>You say you`ll fight to the death<br><br>To save your worthless flag <br><br><br><br>If you want a banana republic that bad<br><br>Why don`t you go move to one<br><br>But what can just one of us do?<br><br>Against all that money and power<br><br>Trying to crush us into roaches? <br><br><br><br>We don`t destroy society in a day<br><br>Until we change ourselves first<br><br>From the inside out <br><br><br><br>We can start by not lying so much<br><br>And treating other people like dirt<br><br>It`s easy not to base our lives<br><br>On how much we can scam <br><br><br><br>And you know<br><br>It feels good to lift that monkey off our backs <br><br><br><br>I`m thankful I live in a place<br><br>Where I can say the things I do<br><br>Without being taken out and shot<br><br>So I`m on guard against the goons<br><br>Trying to take my rights away<br><br>We`ve got to rise above the need for cops and laws <br><br><br><br>Let kids learn communication<br><br>Instead of schools pushing competition<br><br>How about more art and theater instead of sports? <br><br><br><br>People will always do drugs<br><br>Let`s legalize them<br><br>Crime drops when the mob can`t price them<br><br>Budget`s in the red?<br><br>Let`s tax religion <br><br><br><br>No one will do it for us<br><br>We`ll just have to fix ourselves<br><br>Honesty ain`t all that hard<br><br>Just put Rambo back inside your pants<br><br>Causing trouble for the system is much more fun <br><br><br><br>Thank you for the toilet paper<br><br>But your flag is meaningless to me<br><br>Look around, we`re all people<br><br>Who needs countries anyway? <br><br><br><br>Our land, I love it too<br><br>I think I love it more than you<br><br>I care enough to fight <br><br><br><br>The stars and stripes of corruption <br><br>Let`s bring it all down! <br><br>If we don`t try<br><br>If we just lie<br><br>If we can`t find<br><br>A way to do it better than this<br><br>Who will?