Artist: Rise Robots Rise
Album: Rise Robots Rise
Duration: 4:48
Flowers and Birds Lyrics
When we return
We will be flowers and birds
Ah
Will our children be sacrificial lambs
Offered up to ease the fears
Of the multinational corporations
Like so many brainwashed media zombies?
Petroleum and its byproducts should not be a dependency
In a technology-based society
Nothing lasts forever
And we cannot ask God for our gasoline!
Chronicles of a nation in distress
Throw up your hands, don’t worry I’ve been blessed
Go ahead baby, hide under the mattress
But I am prepared, ’cause this is a true test
My country is my house and I will protect that
But only a man with a gun can respect that
Sat in the city on their asses and get fat
Well I’m in the jungle, but I get the last laugh
Feel of the thy-ron resting in my arm
The harder to do harm with my lucky death charm
The weight of the razzle-dazz, I carry in my back
We send up a flare and make radio contact
A chopper arrives, it’s a gift of a close friend
We parachute in and we tie up some loose ends
There’s only one rule for hand-to-hand combat
Kill to be killed, never forget that
One lonely American soldier
Counts the medals on his shoulder
One million American children
Are marching off to their oblivion
To be convinced that we’re doing the right thing
Protecting the world from the dark and the frightening
We can cash in on a regional conflict
And hold it up, thrill and the glamour to distract
Our numbed out minds from the war on our own street
The garbage we make and the garbage that we eat
We lead the path to the common conception
But who will be chosen in the final election?
Blacklisted, twisted, resisted
Feel the force of the people uplifted
Raise your fist and join in the protest
But half of your paycheck is filling the war chest
Who can we trust to look out for our interest?
Our friends in the military-industrial complex
The powerful ones can exploit the weakness
And pull on the strings of the television reflex
One lonely American soldier
Faces east then gives his orders
How many innocent children
Will burn to death while no-one’s looking?
Go ahead and try to separate the real from the illusion
But who’d be foolin’? (Who you foolin’, baby?)
If you set your mind, then you might find
This whole game depends on your confusion
One lonely American soldier
Stands determined at the border
The last hope for civilization
He’ll pay the price for our salvation
There’s only one way
To guarantee the world goes ’round
(And we’ll love each other, love each other)
So maybe someday
We’ll learn to lay our weapons down
(And we’ll love each other like we would a’ now)
There’s only one way
To guarantee the world goes ’round
(Come on, let’s love each other, love each other)
So maybe someday
We’ll learn to lay our weapons down
There’s only one way
To guarantee the world goes ’round
So maybe someday
We’ll learn to lay our weapons down