Back when Eisenhower was the President,
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Golf courses was where most of his time was spent.
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So I never really listened to what the President said,
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Because in general I believed that the General was politically dead.
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But he always seemed to know when the muscles were about to be flexed,
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Because I remember him saying something, mumbling something about a Military Industrial Complex.
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Americans no longer fight to keep their shores safe,
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Just to keep the jobs going in the arms making workplace.
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Then they pretend to be gripped by some sort of political reflex,
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But all they're doing is paying dues to the Military Industrial Complex.
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The Military and the Monetary,
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The Military and the Monetary,
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The Military and the Monetary.
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The Military and the Monetary,
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get together whenever they think its necessary,
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They turn our brothers and sisters into mercenaries, they are turning the planet into a cemetery.
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The Military and the Monetary, use the media as intermediaries,
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they are determined to keep the citizens secondary, they make so many decisions that are arbitrary.
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We're marching behind a commander in chief,
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who is standing under a spotlight shaking like a leaf.
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but the ship of state had landed on an economic reef,
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so we knew he was going to bring us messages of grief.
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The Military and the Monetary,
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were shielded by January and went storming into February,
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Brought us pot bellied generals as luminaries,
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two weeks ago I hadn't heard of the son of a bitch,
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now all of a sudden he's legendary.
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They took the honour from the honourary,
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they took the dignity from the dignitaries,
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they took the secrets from the secretary,
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but they left the bitch in obituary.
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The Military and the Monetary,
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from thousands of miles away in a Saudi Arabian sanctuary,
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had us all scrambling for our dictionaries,
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cause we couldn't understand the fuckin vocabulary.
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Yeah, there was some smart bombs,
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but there was some dumb ones as well,
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scared the hell out of CNN in that Baghdad hotel.
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The Military and the Monetary,
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they get together whenever they think its necessary,
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War in the desert sometimes sure is scary,
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but they beamed out the war to all their subsidiaries.
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Tried to make So Damn Insane a worthy adversary,
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keeping the citizens secondary,
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scaring old folks into coronaries.
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The Military and the Monetary,
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from thousands of miles in a Saudi Arabian sanctuary,
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kept us all wondering if all of this was really truely, necessary.
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We've got to work for Peace,
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Peace ain't coming this way.
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If we only work for Peace,
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If everyone believed in Peace the way they say they do,
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we'd have Peace.
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The only thing wrong with Peace,
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is that you can't make no money from it.
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The Military and the Monetary,
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they get together whenever they think its necessary,
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they've turned our brothers and sisters into mercenaries,
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they are turning the planet, into a cemetery.
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Got to work for Peace,
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Peace ain't coming this way.
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We should not allow ourselves to be mislead,
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by talk of entering a time of Peace,
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Peace is not the absence of war,
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it is the absence of the rules of war and the threats of war and the preparation for war.
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Peace is not the absence of war,
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it is the time when we will all bring ourselves closer to each other,
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closer to building a structure that is unique within ourselves
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because we have finally come to Peace within ourselves.
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The Military and the Monetary,
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The Military and the Monetary,
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The Military and the Monetary.
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Get together whenever they think its necessary,
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they've turned our brothers and sisters into mercenaries,
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they are turning parts of the planet, into a cemetery.
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The Military and the Monetary,
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The Military and the Monetary,
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We hounded the Ayatollah religiously,
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Bombed Libya and killed Quadafi's son hideously.
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We turned our back on our allies the Panamanians,
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and saw Ollie North selling guns to the Iranians.
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Watched Gorbachev slaughtering Lithuanians,
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We better warn the Amish,
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they may bomb the Pennsylvanians.
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The Military and the Monetary,
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get together whenever they think its necessary,
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