Testo The Unelected President - Crass
Testo della canzone The Unelected President (Crass), tratta dall'album Penis Envy (Crassical Collection)
We don't have civilization anymore, we have a state of barbarism
A state of barbarism in which we are daily, hourly
Threatening the annihilation of our fellow citizens
We're looking for a better world, but what do we see?
Poverty, hatred and misery, so much money spent on war
When so many on this earth are so helplessly poor
The unelected president sits at his desk, planning another attack
Since the dramatic coup of September 11, he's never had to look back
A war that won't end in our lifetime is the madness he throws at our world
He talks of 'the axis of evil' while threatening evils untold
Attack is the word, yet he calls it defense
But tell me just who is it for?
Will the starving millions in their struggle for life
Benefit through his vicious war?
Is it some part of his brain that is dead that allows him to act as he does
Oh, is it maybe we who are dead in letting him persist in this madness?
There are so many of us, yet he gets his own way with criminal threats of terror
Surely it's time to strip him of power, to stand against war and its horror?
He'd destroy us all with his cancerous mind and his greed for the power of black-gold
He'll willingly order a million dead to ensure that the line can be sold
This man and his cohorts who advocate war should be made to wade in the truth of it
Made to spend sleepless nights quaking in fear, and by daytime to crawl in the death of it
They'll find the truth of what they do there, festering corpses they and their kind bled
The eternal stare of eyeless skulls telling the truth of military trade
The earth is our home, the wind and the air, the blue sky, the grass and the trees
These masters of war, what do they care? They're only sentiments these
It's our world, our dignity, happiness, pride, but they seek to wrench it away
With constant reminders of the horrors of war, they turn every color to gray
They undermine values with their lies and deceit, make life a trial of fear
They mock and deride our inner beliefs, make us feel that we're mad if we care
Well, we do care, it's our home, they've been at it too long
If it's a fight they want, here's a beginning
Throughout time, we've been expected to sing war's tired songs
Now it's our turn to lead the singing
Now, looking at you, I know one thing
We can win, we can win
I want you to, I want you
I want you, I want you to
I want you to, I want you
I want you, I want you to sense your own strength
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Writer(s): Gee Vaucher, Andrew John Palmer, Bronwyn Lloyd Jones
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