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