Die for Oil, Sucker
by Jello Biafra
you are just about the ripe age to be drafted. does that bother you?
do you even think about that? there was a sign at jonestown behind
jim jones' dead body and it said "those who do not remember the past
are condemned to repeat it." which would you rather sacrifice your hot
car or your life?
die for oil, sucker.
born on the firecracker fourth of
july raised on football and mtv, never felt what its like to have to fight
to stay free. Vietnam just a time life book memory. the mask is off again
this time nobody cares but you can't keep dancing if your legs are blown
away.
die for oil, sucker.
you too can get you face shot off so arms race
tycoons won't have to get a real job. the cold war is over, it was all a
mirage. we could use that money we got problems to solve, but were not
allowed at the peace dividend because our psycho president has got his head
in the sand. saddam hussain so egocentric, he even replaced Mickey mouse on
watches with his own face. last spring he was our tyrant we thought we could
use. we supplied him with all his guns and his nerve gas too. right now its
the world's first tabloid war. there they are on cnn, flinging mud back and
forth. if all wars were treated like game shows, great! the world would be
a much happier place. but it won't last long with these egos involved. one
shot at saddam he's going bomb Israel. after that hiroshima will look
like a picnic and we'll all die for oil, sucker.
you too can get your spinal
cord snapped to save greedy kings from the greed of iraq. give your life
for a country where women can't vote and people still get their hands and
heads chopped off. in saudi arabia they stone you to death for sleeping with
another person's husband or wife. women can't go out alone, or show their
face or even drive. and there's never elections, you can't even ask why. but
they finally did outlaw slavery in 1962, so progress is being made. and
they're sitting on something we can learn to live without but certain
fat cat's bank accounts cannot, oil.
for this you get to be all you can be,
a dead army, navy, air force, marine. come home one of those deranged
unemployed vets, the kind they love to make tv cop shows about. just like
tom cruise in a wheelchair. no film royalties cause nobody cares about you
once you've been used to die for oil, sucker.
kill, kill, kill the poor
even faster that crack, send them off to war make sure they don't come back.
give them tanks that fall apart and helicopters that crash. 2000 died in
panama cause the stealth can't shoot straight. 800 million dollar batman
plane and it doesn't even work. no surprise when their idea of national
security is screwdrivers costing 1800 bucks. a little sand in the engine
can stop a naval destroyer. saddam hussain knows this but our networks don't
report it as we die for oil, sucker.
and is it really worth it in this day
and age to come out the winners of world war 3? think about it. once we take
over that place well never ever beable to leave. bush talks about bombing a
path to Baghdad 75 miles wide. and if the big bad wolf still won't give up
we're going to drop the nuclear bomb and after that we'll just waltz right
in to colonize their hearts and minds. but the arab people will be so damn
mad we'll be lucky to get out of there alive. after that do you think any
arab country will sell us oil?
think of the cost to keep our army there when
the only way left to force oil out of the ground is soldiers guns treating
arabs like slaves or was that all part of the plan. how long do you think
that could possibly last?
they found a scam to replace the cold war it's
called die for oil, sucker.
what's so sick about this is that theres is a
better way. stop selling guns to arabs and to Israel. don't need to keep
ourselves hostage to oil, use our star wars know how to build solar powered
cars. one clerk in the patent office might be all it would take to find
blueprints for a solar car general motors shelved away. but no thats to easy
and theres money to be made, especially if you already have more than you'll
ever need. for those of us who can't buy our way out like rich folks like
dan quale do its burn you draft card, burn the flag, and burn the pentagon
too.
so be all you can be and say no the air force, army, marines. get off
your butt before your butt's blown off. don't die for oil, don't be a sucker.
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