Well I often walk down to the pub in springtime
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To take the summer breeze and drink with friends
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But on the 12th day of September I went down there
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To the derision of all muslims and Afghans
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Being assaulted here in neighborhoods around me
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Personally and in their jobs and schools and homes
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And the barfly's said we should send 'em all back overseas
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Well will you be the one to pay for their plane fare home
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Well their women must come over here for sanctuary's sake
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Being the victims of honor killings still permissable in numerous states
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By fanatical law a shamed husband can gun 'em down you see
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When it's affirmed by family and state then they have no where to flee
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Well we should wipe 'em off the fuckin' map they tell me
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Cause we don't know when or where they will strike next
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But I say we don't know their custom or what's happened there
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Being American we've been veiled from that text
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Well it's easier to manipulate a leader who needs food and guns
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So we've promoted chaos over there all along
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To not have to deal with an independent stable oil power
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Who don't need us or could tell us so long
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And every time there's a faction with potential to out sell
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We profiteer 'em full of guns and missiles and so go out and kill
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We supported Iran and Iraq and Afghanistan oh dread
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Kids with guns starving to death if they get near you you're dead
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Oh take me away o'er the country side
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With no natural resource or bombs or peering eyes
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Away from the double standards practiced on both sides
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Oh please my noble statesmen make this over
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We've empowered leaders who've industrialized and overpopulated the towns
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Who steal their tax money as most jobs are taken now run by machines
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Our sale of food and aid get sanctioned if they don't sell oil cheap
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We starve 'em for their resource yeah we have 'em on their knees
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Well Israel's a source that does keep Arabs fighting
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So we've consistently vetoed their division in U.N. plans
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And we never sanction or exclude Israel outright
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Despite atrocities performed by their own hands
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And S.U.V.'s keep C.E.O.'s happy 'cause they're a status symbol and every one buys
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And they burn a lot more fuel so the oil industry's happy as flies
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On a shit that pollutes the air much worse then regular auto's will
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And they'll keep this industry funded no matter who must be killed
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We sent soldiers and weapons to the Afghanis to fight the occupying Russians
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To insure an alliance and insure their trade for oil
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And the communists fell anyway and we split breaking promises
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Of aid and rebuilding and governance and left them fighting off warlords in turmoil
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And they watched as we incinerated their brothers and sisters
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In Iraq now they think our policies unfair
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And that we condescend and meddle in their governments and destroy them
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They think oil's the only reason why we're there
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Instead of having a foreign policy for policing others and in defence
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We should define it by what we're for rather than what we're against
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What the perpetrators did is punishable and clearly shows to us
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That you can't subjugate others to your will by violence and mistrust
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The Squall
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