Lyrics

"i pledge allegiance to the dirt"
i did my time when i was just a little kid
reciting the lines every single morning
it began to get monotonous
i wondered, what's the point of all this?
we're being forced to pray to a flag everyday
and this piece of cloth isn't listening
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but if i think this i'm bad
they'll say i hate where i live
and that just isn't true
it's just that the pictures i've seen of the earth out from space
look quite different from the maps
with all the lines and the names
and this feels just like church
cause we keep chanting a phrase
till it gets buried deep deep down
until it becomes one with my brain
i bet it's just like this in each group and each place
just with a different flag and the chant slightly changed
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you've been told to risk your life so i could write this song
still i have to wonder why you've needed to all along
when somewhere that's that's very far and safe
from where they're sending you
in cushy chairs with deals to make
there's monkeys wearing business suits
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they're pointing at maps, cracking quips,
planning moves, plotting greed with a gleam deep in their eyes
they ship your kids over there with a wink and a prayer
while keeping patriotism handy as the readiest guise
then they cut off the lights and go home to their lives
while someone's kids kill someone's kids way across the sea
there's a yawn and a stretch before a leisured breakfast
and then they're driven to the morning meeting
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you were spawned in a hatchery
you were caught as soon as you swam from the womb
and they fed you as full as you could be
you were bred to maintain a machine
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hey kids, everywhere on earth
hey kids, just stay home
instead, you could go on a lot of vacations
instead, you could make lots of love
instead, you could someday meet your own baby
the lie's been, "it's them versus us"