I Want to Leave

I don’t want to go to war
and I don’t want Bush anymore,
the businessmen a bunch of thieves,
they stole this land, I want to leave.

It’s still “the air-conditioned nightmare,”
the last election was unfair.
The country’s on the road to ruin,
send in someone from the UN.

I WANT TO LEAVE
I WANT TO LEAVE
I CAN’T BELIEVE
I’M STILL HERE

9/11 was an inside job,
they took us for a ride,
a new Pearl Harbor was the plan.
How come we never saw the plane

that crashed into the Pentagon,
the wings and tail and motor gone,
the black box too.
The secrecy implies a big conspiracy.


I WANT TO LEAVE
I WANT TO LEAVE
I CAN’T BELIEVE
I’M STILL HERE

They say one thing and do another,
selling out your aging mother.
If we’re safer now how come
we have more threats, you think we’re dumb?

Now the Christian soldiers die
for Israel, it’s all a lie.
Put the neo-cons in prison,
their philosophy a sin.

THEY GOTTA LEAVE,
GET OUT OF TOWN,
I CAN’T BELIEVE
WHAT’S COMING DOWN.

Collaborators in D.C.,
the Congressmen are so indecent,
no one stood up for the blacks
in Florida and that’s a fact.

Paris in the meantime sounds
so good to me, I’ll kiss the ground
of liberty, fraternity ­
the real homeland security.

THEY GOTTA LEAVE,
GET OUT OF TOWN,
I CAN’T BELIEVE
WHAT’S COMING DOWN.

I don’t want to go to war
and I don’t want Bush anymore.

2005

False Flag Operation Blues

by Steven Gray
(to the tune of “Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream”)

I woke up in the morning with the buildings falling down,
they seemed to be exploding, there were people leaving town.
It looked like science fiction, I was in a state of shock,
the heat wave went a thousand miles and melted down my clock.
I’m losing track of time, although I know I’m not in heaven,
now I’m stuck with this and every day is 9/11.

I thought that we were supposed to have a pretty good Air Force,
how come they took the day off, it was knocking us off course.
The planes are running into walls and people start to fall,
I’m jumping to conclusions, did our leaders hear the call
of power in the empire as long as they are paid.
A cloud of ash is moving and the truth begins to fade.

We’re living in a Disneyland of middle-class denial,
there’s been a coup d’etat and we are still supposed to smile.
I wrote a letter to the paper, they’re not going near it,
9/11 is taboo, they don’t want to hear it.
See no evil when your head is sticking in the sand,
your bank account is being robbed, it’s hard to understand.

The businessmen are turning chaos into lots of cash,
you see it in New Orleans when Katrina made a splash,
the contracts for construction they are worth a lot of bucks
to Bush’s friends, although he couldn’t come up with some trucks
to help out when they needed it. Is he disaster prone?
It makes you wish the neo-cons were leaving us alone.

A false flag operation, they are using a disguise
and spreading terror on their own, but some are getting wise.
Half of New York City knows a fascist when they see one,
now they’re called Republicans, I wouldn’t want to be one.
Look how often terror is conducted by the State,
you look at Bush and understand how character is fate.

It wasn’t a surprise attack, it wasn’t a surprise
when many had a warning and the rest of us had lies,
and airline stocks were being sold the day before the crash.
It makes you wonder when a thousand people turn to ash
if people are expendable, they’re tiny little pawns.
We’re dominated by the Bomb, here comes a nuclear dawn.

Anomalies of 9/11 are of some concern,
a high-rise never brought down by a fire, it can burn
and yet the steel is holding up. I’m looking with suspicion
at the towers coming down, it’s called a demolition,
a cloud exploding outwards with a lot of broken steel,
and now you know what life is like beneath an iron heel.

There was another building which went down 8 hours later,
they call it number 7, it was like an elevator,
although nothing hit it so I don’t know why it fell.
The government cannot explain, I hope they burn in hell.
When people are in shock they will believe what they are told,
the neo-cons are in control and they are pretty cold.

The military on maneuvers, called an “exercise”,
but it was on the same day when we lost 3000 lives,
with Cheney the coordinator pulling all the strings.
They manufacture an event, the television sings
about a big amorphous concept, calling it the Terror,
bigger than the Soviets, a lot of trial and error.

Nothing in the story fits, some hijackers are alive,
the others couldn’t fly a plane. The government took a dive,
it let us down, the country is becoming so unreal
and all of it in service of the State of Israel.
Onward Christian soldiers, they are dying for a god
of Mussolini and of money, I don’t like the odds.

The media don’t question it in their monopolies,
and now the London bombing with some more anomalies,
the government conducting a security rehearsal
during the explosions, a security reversal.
Selling us protection, it’s a military racket,
telling us to move along, it’s over, don’t look back.

2005

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