Annihilation
From dehumanization to arms production,
For the benefit of the nation or its destruction
Power, power, the law of the land,
Those living for death will die by their own hand,
Life's no ordeal if you come to terms,
Reject the system dictating the norms
From dehumanization to arms production,
To hasten the nation towards its destruction
Power, power, the law of the land,
Those living for death will die by their own hand,
Life's no ordeal if you come to terms,
Reject the system dictating the norms
From dehumanization to arms production,
To hasten the nation towards its destruction
Power, power, the law of the land,
Those living for death will die by their own hand,
Life's no ordeal if you come to terms,
Reject the system dictating the norms
From dehumanization to arms production,
To hasten this nation towards its destruction,
It's your choice, your choice, your choice, your choice,
Peace or annihilation
Imagine
Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people,
Living for today (you)
Imagine there's no countries,
It isn't hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
And no religion too
Imagine all the people,
Living life in peace,
You may say I'm a dreamer,
But I'm not the only one,
I hope someday you'll join us,
And the world will live as one
Imagine all the people,
Sharing all the world,
You may say I'm a dreamer,
But I'm not the only one,
I hope someday you'll join us,
And the world will live as one
Imagine no possessions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people,
Sharing all the world,
You may say I'm a dreamer,
But I'm not the only one,
I hope someday you'll join us,
And the world will live as one (you)
Peace
Love and Understanding
As I walk on through this wicked world,
Searching for light in the darkness of insanity,
I ask myself, Is all hope lost?
Is there only pain, and hatred, and misery?
And each time I feel like this inside,
There's one thing I wanna know,
What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?,
What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?
As I walked on through troubled times,
My spirit gets so downhearted sometimes,
So where are the strong?,
And who are the trusted?,
And where is the harmony?,
Sweet harmony
'Cause each time I feel it slipping away, just makes me
wanna cry,
What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?,
What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?
So where are the strong?,
And who are the trusted?,
And where is the harmony?,
Sweet harmony
'Cause each time I feel it slipping away, just makes me
wanna cry,
What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?,
What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?,
What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?
What's
Going On
Mother, mother, Mother, mother,
There's too many of you crying,
Brother, brother, Brother, brother,
There's far too many of you dying,
You know we've got to find a way,
To bring some loving here today
Father, father, Father, father,
We don't need to escalate,
War is not the answer,
Only love can conquer hate,
You know we've got to find a way,
To bring some loving here today
Picket lines and picket signs,
Don't punish me with brutality,
Talk to me, so you can see,
What's going on, What's going on,
What's going on, What's going on
Father, father, Father, father,
Father, father, Father, father,
Everybody thinks we're wrong,
But who are they to judge us?,
Simply cause our hair is long,
You know we've got to find a way,
To bring understanding here today,
Picket lines and picket signs,
Don't punish me with brutality,
Talk to me,
So you can see,
What's going on, What's going on,
What's going on, What's going on,
Passive
"Dead as dead can be," the doctor
tells me,
But I just can't believe him,
Ever the optimistic one, I'm sure of your ability to become
my perfect enemy
Wake up and face me,
Don't play dead cause maybe someday I will walk away and
say,
"You disappoint me, Maybe you're better off this way"
Leaning over you here cold and catatonic,
I catch a brief reflection of what you could and might have
been,
It's your right and your ability to become my perfect enemy
Wake up and face me,
Don't play dead cause maybe someday I will walk away and
say,
"You disappoint me, Maybe you're better off this way,"
Maybe you're better off this way, Maybe you're
better off this way, Maybe you're better off this way,
You're better off this, You're better off this, Maybe you're
better off!
Wake up and face me,
Don't play dead cause maybe someday I will walk away and
say,
"You fucking disappoint me, Maybe you're better off
this way,"
(Go!) go ahead and play dead, (Go!) I know
that you can hear this,
(Go!) go ahead and play dead, (Go!) why can't you turn and
face me?,
Why can't you turn and face me?, Why can't you turn and
face me?, Why can't you turn and face me?,
You fucking disappoint me,
Passive aggressive bullshit (repeated)
Gimmie
Gimmie Gimmie
Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie,
I need more, I need more,
Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie,
Don't ask what for, don't ask what for
Sitting here I'm a loaded gun,
Waiting to go off,
I've got nothing to do,
But shoot my mouth off
Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie,
I need more, I need more,
Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie,
Don't ask what for, don't ask what for
I know the world's got problems,
I've got problems of my own,
Ain't the kind that can't be solved,
With an atom bomb
Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie,
I need more, I need more,
Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie,
Don't ask what for, don't ask what for
You know I'm gonna go out,
Get something for my head,
If I keep on doing this,
I'm gonna end up dead
Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie,
I need more, I need more,
Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie,
Don't ask what for, don't ask what for
Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie,
I need more, I need more,
Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie,
Don't ask what for, don't ask what for
People
Are People
We're different colors,
And different creeds,
And different people,
Have different needs,
It's obvious you hate me,
Though I've done nothing wrong,
I've never even met you,
What could I have done?
People are people,
So why should it be?,
You and I shouldn't get along,
People are people,
So why should it be?,
You should hate me
People are people,
So why should it be?,
You and I shouldn't get along,
People are people,
So why should it be?,
You should hate me
Punching and kicking,
And you're shouting at me,
I'm relying on your common decency,
So far it hasn't surfaced,
But I'm sure it exists,
It just takes a while to travel,
From your head to your fist
I can't understand what makes a man,
Hate another man?,
Help me understand
People are people,
So why should it be?,
You and I shouldn't get along,
People are people,
So why should it be?,
You should hate me
People are people,
So why should it be?,
You and I shouldn't get along,
People are people,
So why should it be?,
You should hate me
I can't understand what makes a man,
Hate another man?,
Help me understand
I can't understand what makes a man,
Hate another man?,
Help me understand
I can't understand what makes a man,
Hate another man?,
Help me understand
Freedom
of Choice
We're victims of sedition on an open sea,
Nobody ever said life was free,
Sink, swim, go down with the ship,
Just use your freedom of choice
I’ll say it again in the land of the free,
Use your freedom of choice,
Freedom of choice
In ancient Rome there was a pawn,
Who fought along and watched it fall,
He cast a stone,
He felt secure,
He felt that he would never be heard
Freedom of choice,
Is what you got,
Freedom of choice
You're given a voice, you don't want it,
Seems to be the rule of thumb,
Don’t be tricked by what you see,
You got two ways to go
I’ll say it again in the land of the free,
Use your freedom of choice,
Freedom of choice
Freedom of choice,
Is what you got,
Freedom of choice
In ancient Rome there was a pawn,
Who fought along and watched it fall,
He cast a stone,
He felt secure,
He felt that his voice would never be heard
Freedom of choice,
Is what you got,
Freedom from choice,
Is what you want
Freedom of choice,
Is what you got,
Freedom from choice,
Is what you want
Freedom from choice,
Is what you want
Freedom from choice
Let's
Have a War
There's so many opposites, so many opposites,
so many
There's so many opposites, so many opposites,
so many
There's so many opposites, so many opposites,
so many
There's so many opposites, so many opposites,
so many
There's so many opposites, so many opposites,
so many
There's so many opposites, so many opposites,
so many
Let's have a war,
So you can go and die,
Let's have a war,
We could all use the money,
Let's have a war,
We need the space,
Let's have a war,
Clean out this place
It already started in the city,
Suburbia will be just as easy
There's so many opposites, so many opposites,
so many
There's so many opposites, so many opposites,
so many
There's so many opposites, so many opposites,
so many
There's so many opposites, so many opposites,
so many
Let's have a war,
Jack up the Dow Jones,
Let's have a war,
It can start in New Jersey,
Let's have a war,
Blame it on the middle-class,
Let's have a war,
We're like rats in a cage
It already started in the city,
Suburbia will be just as easy
There's so many opposites, so many opposites,
so many
There's so many opposites, so many opposites,
so many
There's so many opposites, so many opposites,
so many
There's so many opposites, so many opposites,
so many
Let's have a war,
Sell the rights to the networks,
Let's have a war,
Let our wallets get fat like last time,
Let's have a war,
Give guns to the queers,
Let's have a war,
The enemy's within
It already started in the city,
Suburbia will be just as easy
It already started in the city,
Suburbia will be just as easy
It already started in the city,
Suburbia will be just as easy
It already started in the city,
Suburbia will be just as easy
It already started in the city,
Suburbia will be just as easy
Counting
Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums
Don't fret precious I'm here,
Step away from the window (step away from the window),
Go back to sleep,
Safe from pain and truth and choice,
And other poison devils,
See, they don't give a fuck about you,
Like I do
Counting bodies like sheep, like sheep (repeated)
Counting bodies like sheep, like sheep (repeated)
Counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm
of the war drums,
Counting bodies like sheep, like sheep (repeated)
Go back to sleep,
Go back to sleep (Counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm
of the war drums),
Go back to sleep,
Go back to sleep (Counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm
of the war drums),
Go back to sleep,
Go back to sleep (Counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm
of the war drums),
Go back to sleep (go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep,
etc.,)
Go back to sleep,
Go back to sleep,
Go back to sleep (Counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm
of the war drums),
Go back to sleep,
Go back to sleep,
Go back to sleep,
Go back to sleep (Counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm
of the war drums),
Go back to sleep,
Go back to sleep (Counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm
of the war drums),
Go back to sleep,
Go back to sleep (Counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm
of the war drums),
Go back to sleep,
Go back to sleep
I'll be the one to protect you from your
enemies and all your demons,
I'll be the one to protect you from a will to survive and
a voice of reason,
I'll be the one to protect you from your enemies and your
choices son,
They're one and the same, I must isolate you,
Isolate and save you from yourself
When
the Levee Breaks
If it keeps on raining (if it keeps on raining),
If it keeps on raining (if it keeps on raining),
The levee's going to break (the levee's going to break),
The levee's going to break (the levee's going to break),
If it keeps on raining (if it keeps on raining),
The levee's going to break (the levee's going to break)
When the levee breaks, When the levee breaks,
When the levee breaks, We'll have no place to stay
Mean old levee (mean old levee),
Mean old levee (mean old levee),
Taught me how to weep and moan (taught me how to weep and
moan),
Taught me how to weep and moan (taught me how to weep and
moan),
Mean old levee (mean old levee),
Taught me how to weep and moan (taught me how to weep and
moan)
When the levee breaks, When the levee breaks,
When the levee breaks, We'll have no place to stay
All last night (all last night),
All last night (all last night),
Sat on the levee alone (sat on the levee alone-oh crying
won't help you),
Sat on the levee alone (sat on the levee alone-praying won't
do no good,),
All last night (oh crying won't help you-all last night),
Sat on the levee alone (no crying won't help you no more-sat
on the levee alone)
When the levee breaks, When the levee breaks,
When the levee breaks, We'll have no place to stay
Fiddle
and the Drum
And so once again,
My dear Johnny, my dear friend,
And so once again you are fighting us all,
And when I ask you why,
You raise your sticks and cry, and I fall,
Oh, my friend,
How did you come,
To trade the fiddle for the drum?
You say I have turned,
Like the enemies you've earned,
But I can remember,
All the good things you are,
And so I ask you please,
Can I help you find the peace and the star?,
Oh, my friend,
What time is this?,
To trade the handshake for the fist
And so once again,
Oh, America my friend,
And so once again,
You are fighting us all,
And when we ask you why,
You raise your sticks and cry and we fall,
Oh, my friend,
How did you come,
To trade the fiddle for the drum?
You say we have turned,
Like the enemies you've earned,
But we can remember,
All the good things you are,
And so we ask you please,
Can we help you find the peace and the star?,
Oh my friend,
We have all come,
To fear the beating of your drum
