Behind Enemy Lines

Bush backs out of the 1972 ABM treaty, supposedly in the interests of national defense Determined to resurrect Reagan’s nuclear monster Ignoring the world tension that this action presents Jerry Falwell had the nerve to place the blame at the feet of feminists...

Hidden behind a wall of secrecy and right in our own backyard In fort Benning, Georgia lies the pentagons prize Well protected behind gun and guard It’s the training ground for counter insurgency For the Latin American and Caribbean countries Specializing in p...

What we chastise one minute, we justify the next With the elevated morality that our torture reflects Our grand-standing assertions mean absolutely nothing If what we denounce is exactly what we bring Back into the lives of those we claimed to liberate The abu...

Bow down to the demagogues They gain their power when they prey on your fears Bow down to the demagogues They keep their control by feeding your bigotry Bow down to the demagogues They keep you safe by denying you freedom Bow down to the demagogues They intim...

Once again america has chosen to keep its shut tight Content in our national ignorance as long as all danger is kept out of sight We don’t want to hear the reasons why this happened. We only want revenge We only want to feel safe again and we’re all willing to...

Not interested in politics or don’t want to fucking face it But if we don’t stand against oppression we might as well embrace it When we act as if it doesn’t affect us we do nothing but pretend Because there’s not a single place on earth that doesn’t belong to...

Within the sterile environment that carries out American retribution The threatened insist that vengeance is the only acceptable solution Emotions fuel the media frenzy, relentlessly searching for satisfaction The world’s superpower, made to feel vulnerable, i...

It’s the age-old conflict, the territorial dispute Endless accusations flying about who has wronged who Desperate determination to show no sign of weakness The leaders take action while their people pay the consequences Abandoning diplomacy, those in power un...

Blinding, shattering brightness breaks the darkness of dawn Blistering gusts of fire, a nightmare in life forever torn Fear Silence Misery Devastation Left in the shambles, the smoke, innocent victims of war Hiding behind their nakedness, in fear of what’s lef...

Do you know what they’re up to while we sleep? They pass ‘free trade’ legislation that favors the companies Do you know what they’re up to while we sleep? They cut social programs to fund war technology Do you know what they’re up to while we sleep? They injec...

Apocalyptic policies That neglect the environment and diminish the future Because the zealots in power Those ruling are ruled by their faith in the scriptures When the environment takes a backseat to religion Are they serving our interests or just succumbing t...

From the age of the thought police- greetings From the age of big brother- greetings From the age of newspeak- greetings Welcome to the age of continuous warfare We are the free; we are the peaceful They're the aggressors and they are the hateful Who are they?...

The sharks start to circle when they smell blood in the water The viewers tune in to watch the unfortunate suffer Bombarded with a never ending scourge of destruction Seduced my the media’s macabre illustration We have front row seats for the televised slaught...

Pounded by the hurricane but finished off by the government Trapped in Katrina’s aftermath by George’s emergency management Stranded on the rooftops are the people left for dead Waving franticly to their leader, who’s flying safely overhead He’s been too busy...

You claim that you’re trying to cure disease Does destroying life make you pleased? Senseless tests with nothing to prove Destruction of animals is what you choose Taxpayer’s money supplies the fuel For experiments that are torture, irrelevant and cruel Blindi...

We're all feeding the gluttons of privilege As they rewrite the labor laws to subjugate the poor We're all feeding the gluttons of privilege By sering our lords on the factory floor We're all feeding the gluttons of privilege Shouldering the tax breaks for the...

America has been conquered by a fundamentalist crusade That holds god above our heads to keep the masses afraid We’ve surrendered sensibility to a morbid spirituality Shackled by what passes as Christian morality Opening the bible for justification to close mi...

When does a woman’s choice belong to her and not to man or myth? When does a woman’s body belong to her and not to man or myth? George w. Bush vowed to overturn Roe vs. Wade by stacking the Supreme Court full of anti-choice advocates While attorney general Joh...

I’m the newly appointed expert on the treatment of drug addiction here to help the addicts to overcome through faith in religion One man has been blessed with vision, by god in his infinite wisdom so king George the second has generously bankrolled our gloriou...

Immersed in political strategies Government policies create endless catastrophes and we all pay the price when our movement becomes stagnant, anchored by apathy We can’t just give up, we can’t just give in There are no wasted attempts when it comes to action T...

All life is exploited And in death there is no relief The unbearable mourning will never cease When they dangle your loved ones just out of reach Tugging on heart strings Ambition’s embraced and principles shed Opportunism rears it’s ugly head While the partis...

Shots fired by hired thugs Public servants don’t murder and maim Hiding behind their double standards targeting the victim with bullets and blame Providing a wall of defense for dictators and tyrants Shielding them from accountability, concern and complaints S...

With the United States and other first world powers stepping up their efforts at globalization One of their biggest obstacles has proven to be the conscience resistance from the civilian population Governments are closely working together with industry utilizi...

With the cold war now behind us we no longer live in fear Of a world on the brink of annihilation Where in a flash it could all disappear The forgotten nuclear stockpiles of military might Were never designed for use or destruction But to help us sleep at nigh...

We've annihilated a nation now the retribution begins Each day claims a life and a half dozen limbs Violent backlash The postwar fallout has turned into a bloodbath Occupation not liberation Nation building has been paved over by desperation Trapped in this qu...

The human race is committing self-inflicted extinction Our actions are leading us down the path to annihilation Our apathy is sealing our fate We won’t care until it’s too late Once we’re nearing extinction then we’ll finally learn that there’s no turning back...

I am George W. Bush and you best not cross my path Because now I have the backing and you’re going to feel my wrath The Christian right adore me because I swore to carry out god’s will Can you believe that they’re my strongest support considering how I love to...

With the city in ruins it’s plunged into chaos A means of survival or just looting and theft The National Guard have been given the order By any means necessary- protect what’s left Shoot to kill In the wake of the storm they criminalize the survivors Impose m...

Religious zealots, self-proclaimed crusaders God’s bigoted soldiers are nothing more than women-haters Their beliefs and ideals are taken from the pages of the book of lies and can be interpreted to any end, any agenda can be propagandized So Christian soldier...

To all of you sexual deviants that have perversely lost your way To all of you with loved ones that have been immorally led astray Fear no more, have faith in us, gods soldiers are here to appease We’ll save you from immorality by helping to rid you of this ho...

Importing oil exporting blood We’ll take their barrels of oil by the barrel of a gun Importing capital, exporting death We’ll keep dropping our bombs until there’s none of them left We don’t need actual evidence to seal a nation’s fate just the promise of prof...

Despite the wage stagnation the economy still has the illusion of growth Because people are now deeper in debt, spending more than what they’re worth Working more jobs and hours for less pay in an effort to get by Enticed with the buy now, pay later pitfall yo...

We’ve caused millions to starve just to try and achieve special interest objectives Inflicting economic ruin and mass starvation for political leverage We’ll let them chew on our resolutions We’ll force-feed them our biased conditions We’ll watch them choke on...

Here in the first world we live our lives without concern for others and no regrets We keep the third world dependent upon us submissive and docile and in our debt we wear the smile of the humanitarian as we call for their subversion under our breath we pledge...

Use your euphemisms but the reality remains This is still genocide by any other name Too much agony and bloodshed for the perpetrators to hide Too much apathy and bloodlust for us to justify Too much western world indifference to keep this savagery at bay Too...

In university vivisection labs another million of government grants is spent For better money a lawyer sells out the client he’s supposed to represent Insurance companies public relations campaigns are an undisputable lie Blaming ‘insurance fraud’ as the reaso...

For over fifty years this country has submerged the world into shit and now that we’ve been attacked, we’re full of disbelief and rage but how can we possibly be surprised when all of these years we’ve been just fucking asking for it What did we expect when we...

She’s a domestic violence survivor a regular hospital patient He swears that it was an accident, she claims it was blatant Those who think that they know him will of course have their doubts And the ones who believe her will quickly point out That it’s happene...