Текст песни Die For Oil, Sucker (T.W.O.T. Addition) - Jello Biafra

Hey you! You look like you're just the ripe age
To be drafted
Does that bother you?
Can't fight Iraq and Iran and North Korea
All at the same time, there ain't enough troops
There was a sign at Jonestown behind Jim Jones's dead body and it
Said: Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it!
Which would you rather sacrifice, your roadhawk or your life?
Die for oil, sucker

Born on the firecracker fourth of July
Raised on football and MTV
Never felt what it's like to have to fight to stay free
Vietnam, just a time life book memory
The mask is of again, this time nobody cares
But you can't keep dancing with your legs blown away
Die for oil, sucker
Sucker
Sucker

You too can get your face shot of,
So Exxon and Halliburton keep their profits going up
The cold war's over it was all a mirage,
We could use that money, we've got problems to solve
But we're not allowed a chance to live in prosper and peace,
'Cause our president's sick with mad cowboy disease

King George never cared 'bout 911 familie's pain
'How can we exploit this for financial gain?'
Cheney already had a handy map of Iraq's oil wells pipes and terminals
They were scheming to snatch
Hijack all that crude, from the Chinese and French,
So we then have all their economies by the nuts
Then bring in the cronies to feed at the
Halliburton and Becktell ripping everyone of
Never wants to fight terror or liberate anyone
'Cept record oil profits, doubling two year in a row
This is what our soldiers are really fighting for?
Die for oil, sucker
Sucker
Sucker

It'll kill the poor even faster than crack,
Ship 'em out to war, make sure they don't come back,
Give 'em tanks that fall apart and helicopters that crash,
Humvee armor they forgot to attach,
Just like Tom Cruise in a wheelchair
Does our government support our troops?
They don't care
Cut their pay, yank their benefits, go beg in the streets,
Won't even admit Gulf war syndrome exists
Some are coming home brain damaged, post traumatic stress
Which one will be the next Timothy McVeigh
Die for oil, sucker
Sucker
Sucker

Saddam's so egocentric,
He even replaced
Mickey Mouse on Watchers
With his own face,
For years he was our tyrant,
We thought we could use,
We sold him his guns and his nerve gas too.
Now he and Bin Laden and Iran's Ayatollahs
Are laughing like mad 'cause we're right were they want us
Sole superpower can't conquer Iraq
And it's costing so much
Our economy's tanked
Washington generals are losing again
Now let's see how bad we can lose in Iran
Still think we can waltz right in, colonize their hearts and minds?
The Islamic world's now so damn mad we may never get out of this
Alive
'Mission accomplished, we've got the job done'
Find a country that ain't a terror threat, turn it into one
Bush is wrong, they don't hate us because of our freedom
They hate us 'cause we won't let them have any freedom
We promise democracy
Give 'em Abu Ghraib,? and?
What are they supposed to think
Three dozen terror attacks in 2003
Three thousand in O-four
Does anyone still think
The war on terror inc.
Has made us any safer at all?

W draws his pompons and cheers, bring 'em on,
Leaves troops like sitting ducks for insurgence to bomb
See how he smirks and turns up his nose,
As he sends away more who will never come home
Landmines, suicides, kill more troops every day
A hint from the locals that the longer we stay
We're the ones in harm's way wherever we lay
And we'll pay and we'll pay and we'll pay and we'll pay

Die for oil sucker
Sucker
Sucker

What's so sick about this is there's a better way,
Stop selling guns to dictators AND Israel
No need to keep ourselves hostage to oil,
When cars and trucks and who knows what
Can run on biofuel
Road range swines won't give up SUV's,
By law let's make you the first draftees,
Go get your own goddamn oil,
It ain't up to us to protect your lifestyle

Running the world
Like our sweatshops can't last
Climate change and terror's biting us all in the ass
Think they like their kings who sell us oil?
Think of the cost to keep our army there
When the only way left to bleed oil out of the ground
Is soldier's guns treating Arabs like slaves
And like Hitler or Stalin we put people in camps
Torture them in secret, like our pal Pinochet
What are we letting ourselves become
Abu Ghraib reserves back home where prison guards

If this is what they say is funny over there
What are they planning for us over here
Like Milosevic or the Nazis
With their gas and gaze and Jews
To many who know what's up
Give up
There's nothing we can do
Like hell there ain't and if we don't who will,
We know our rights so more then ever use them know
There's two superpowers, only one's the USA
The other's resistance all over the world that will not go away
We stopped Vietnam
We won our civil rights true(?)
So burn your draft card, burn the flag and burn the Pentagon too

On TV it's a feelgood tabloid war,
No bodies, no wounded, no funerals, no gore
Fake reality show where we always win
So much yellow-ribbon that we're hanging ourselves
Pentagon? pundits won't admit we exist
What that says to me is their owners are scared
That we are as strong as we've been in the past
And we will stop this war and their globalization scams
Yellow-ribbon McCarthyism won't hold us too long
We support are troops most
When we say bring them home!

So be all you can be
Say no to the army, air force, marines
Get of your butt before Bush blows it off
Don't die for oil
Don't be a sucker
Hey you! You look like you're just the ripe age
To be drafted
Does that bother you?
Can't fight Iraq and Iran and North Korea
All at the same time, there ain't enough troops
There was a sign at Jonestown behind Jim Jones's dead body and it
Said: Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it!
Which would you rather sacrifice, your roadhawk or your life?
Die for oil, sucker

Born on the firecracker fourth of July
Raised on football and MTV
Never felt what it's like to have to fight to stay free
Vietnam, just a time life book memory
The mask is of again, this time nobody cares
But you can't keep dancing with your legs blown away
Die for oil, sucker
Sucker
Sucker

You too can get your face shot of,
So Exxon and Halliburton keep their profits going up
The cold war's over it was all a mirage,
We could use that money, we've got problems to solve
But we're not allowed a chance to live in prosper and peace,
'Cause our president's sick with mad cowboy disease

King George never cared 'bout 911 familie's pain
'How can we exploit this for financial gain?'
Cheney already had a handy map of Iraq's oil wells pipes and terminals
They were scheming to snatch
Hijack all that crude, from the Chinese and French,
So we then have all their economies by the nuts
Then bring in the cronies to feed at the
Halliburton and Becktell ripping everyone of
Never wants to fight terror or liberate anyone
'Cept record oil profits, doubling two year in a row
This is what our soldiers are really fighting for?
Die for oil, sucker
Sucker
Sucker

It'll kill the poor even faster than crack,
Ship 'em out to war, make sure they don't come back,
Give 'em tanks that fall apart and helicopters that crash,
Humvee armor they forgot to attach,
Just like Tom Cruise in a wheelchair
Does our government support our troops?
They don't care
Cut their pay, yank their benefits, go beg in the streets,
Won't even admit Gulf war syndrome exists
Some are coming home brain damaged, post traumatic stress
Which one will be the next Timothy McVeigh
Die for oil, sucker
Sucker
Sucker

Saddam's so egocentric,
He even replaced
Mickey Mouse on Watchers
With his own face,
For years he was our tyrant,
We thought we could use,
We sold him his guns and his nerve gas too.
Now he and Bin Laden and Iran's Ayatollahs
Are laughing like mad 'cause we're right were they want us
Sole superpower can't conquer Iraq
And it's costing so much
Our economy's tanked
Washington generals are losing again
Now let's see how bad we can lose in Iran
Still think we can waltz right in, colonize their hearts and minds?
The Islamic world's now so damn mad we may never get out of this
Alive
'Mission accomplished, we've got the job done'
Find a country that ain't a terror threat, turn it into one
Bush is wrong, they don't hate us because of our freedom
They hate us 'cause we won't let them have any freedom
We promise democracy
Give 'em Abu Ghraib,? and?
What are they supposed to think
Three dozen terror attacks in 2003
Three thousand in O-four
Does anyone still think
The war on terror inc.
Has made us any safer at all?

W draws his pompons and cheers, bring 'em on,
Leaves troops like sitting ducks for insurgence to bomb
See how he smirks and turns up his nose,
As he sends away more who will never come home
Landmines, suicides, kill more troops every day
A hint from the locals that the longer we stay
We're the ones in harm's way wherever we lay
And we'll pay and we'll pay and we'll pay and we'll pay

Die for oil sucker
Sucker
Sucker

What's so sick about this is there's a better way,
Stop selling guns to dictators AND Israel
No need to keep ourselves hostage to oil,
When cars and trucks and who knows what
Can run on biofuel
Road range swines won't give up SUV's,
By law let's make you the first draftees,
Go get your own goddamn oil,
It ain't up to us to protect your lifestyle

Running the world
Like our sweatshops can't last
Climate change and terror's biting us all in the ass
Think they like their kings who sell us oil?
Think of the cost to keep our army there
When the only way left to bleed oil out of the ground
Is soldier's guns treating Arabs like slaves
And like Hitler or Stalin we put people in camps
Torture them in secret, like our pal Pinochet
What are we letting ourselves become
Abu Ghraib reserves back home where prison guards

If this is what they say is funny over there
What are they planning for us over here
Like Milosevic or the Nazis
With their gas and gaze and Jews
To many who know what's up
Give up
There's nothing we can do
Like hell there ain't and if we don't who will,
We know our rights so more then ever use them know
There's two superpowers, only one's the USA
The other's resistance all over the world that will not go away
We stopped Vietnam
We won our civil rights true(?)
So burn your draft card, burn the flag and burn the Pentagon too

On TV it's a feelgood tabloid war,
No bodies, no wounded, no funerals, no gore
Fake reality show where we always win
So much yellow-ribbon that we're hanging ourselves
Pentagon? pundits won't admit we exist
What that says to me is their owners are scared
That we are as strong as we've been in the past
And we will stop this war and their globalization scams
Yellow-ribbon McCarthyism won't hold us too long
We support are troops most
When we say bring them home!

So be all you can be
Say no to the army, air force, marines
Get of your butt before Bush blows it off
Don't die for oil
Don't be a sucker

*Please note that I am not a native speaker and that there are some
Words I'm not fimiliar with,
If you know what they are, please tell me, it would be appriciated*