Bad Religion
Let Them Eat War
The Empire Strikes First (2004)

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There's a prophet on a mountain and he's making up dinner
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With long division and writing crop
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Anybody can feel like a winner
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When it's served up piping hot

But the people aren't looking for a handout
They're America's working corps
Can this be what they voted for?                            (G5 sur for)

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  Let them eat war      let them eat war
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  That's how to ration the poor
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  Let them eat war      let them eat war
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  There's an urgent need to feed - declining pride

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From the force to the union shops
The war economy is making new jobs
But the people who benefit most
Are breaking bread with their benevolent hosts

Who never stole from the rich to give to the poor
All they ever gave to them was a war
And a foreign enemy to deplore

  Refrain

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We've got to kill 'em and eat 'em before they reach for their checks
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Squeeze some blue collars let them bleed from their necks
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Seize a few dollars from the people who sweat
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Cause it's freedom or death and they won't question it
At a job site the boss is god-like
Conditioned workhorses park at a stoplight
Seasoned vets with their feet in nets                                  (feedback)
A stones throw away from a rock fight but not tonight (feed 'em death)

Here comes another ration (feed them death)
Cause they're the finest in the nation (feed them death)
When there's nothing left to feed them
When it's freedom or it's death

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