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The Great Satan

by HIGHWAY SNIPER

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Introduction 01:14
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Democracy only lives in a book It’s worth as much as the oath that the President took And when you’re cursed with a golden resource We’re gonna take it by force Democracy only sits in the window Of the house where they moderate sin Showtunes culminate into a din And the house always wins The Great Satan, it buys desperation and greed The same sides of the coin that’ll pay for the deed
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“Mission accomplished” Falls on the dead ears of one million corpses As the pinball of war shoots across the Levant Any hope of a liberal society Starved, infected, and bombed back centuries For the oil that fills up the planes of the business and wanderlust class Flying over Iraq Where the hospital floors get cleaned with the rest of the gas They’re reusing syringes Overwhelming the morgue And the same politicians Just repackage the war
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Every game has a pound of your skin Every game you insert yourself in I believe in original sin Do you believe in original sin? Busy signal at the embassy The Peanut Farmer’s a dunce on TV Oh Saddam, how your valley was green Fool me once, shame on you A quarter century after the coup When your diplomacy is coddling tyrants Sometimes your own people soak up the violence
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So analytic, aligned with the center A real hard-on for being pragmatic So when they sign a new Patriot Act I’m sure your thoughts will get lost in the static I know a kid with daddy problems Who turned himself into a national martyr His old man was an Eagle Scout Who came of age under President Carter We’re all born into different prisons Different cycles of pain We’re all owned by the type of people that we don’t know By the people we hate So analytic, aligned with the center A real hard-on for being pragmatic So if a stealth bomber snuffed out your family Kalashnikovs might not seem so dramatic You got a kid with daddy problems Who turned himself into a national martyr I guess politics are always personal You just have to extrapolate farther We’re all born into different prisons Different cycles of pain We’re all owned by the type of people that we don’t know By the people we hate
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Two Gods 01:57
Vengeance or justice The hand forced in the glove A strict observance Of push coming to shove It’s real estate; Apaches fly faster than a dove Another manifest destiny A kind on which our two gods finally agree But you’re the 20th century A time to exploit your own tragedy Eliminate the native through a brand new Trail of Tears To last a hundred years Ground forces circling the mosque Pandora’s thrown away the box
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All dreams of sovereignty are dead Two shots in the chest, two shots in the head All men are born with certain rights The sacred concept that may well eclipse your life A case for war so overplayed It’s Christmas music No one’s phased Another Stop Work Order canned the latest nation-building plan

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released July 27, 2022

Produced and Mixed by Steve Perrino
Mastered by Brad Boatright
Vocals and Bass - Skylar Sarkis
Guitar and Drums - George Lucarelli
Artwork by George Lucarelli

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