Is This America?

Is this America we see when we walk down the street

Families in tent cities because of bankers playing for keeps

4 million unemployed leads to hard life and hard times

In desperation the best person will resort to crime

Is this America we see when we open our eyes

With people screaming at the government

'Stop all these lies'

With crisis after crisis, they use fear to heard us like sheep

If you recognize the truth they say, 'go back to sleep'

We get attacked, they respond with the 'Patriot Act'

But the fact they tracks us takes the world and paints it black

What kind of world do we live in if we can't live free

Addicted to their handouts just like it was smack on the streets

With every resolution called a solution Progressive evolution

rapes the Constitution, this institution breeds dissolution

Sold our freedom for security

Now watch them abuse it

Gave them power in our darkest hour

How can we do this?

Is this America we see when we walk down the street

Families in tent cities because of bankers playing for keeps

4 million unemployed leads to hard life and hard times

In desperation the best person will resort to crime

Is this America we see when we open our eyes

With people screaming at the government

'Stop all these lies'

With crisis after crisis, they use fear to heard us like sheep

If you recognize the truth they say, 'go back to sleep'

Investing in Smith and Wesson in case this recession

turns into a hyper inflated Greater Depression

Their intentions lead one direction

A Brave New World (Order)

Entitlements for every boy and girl (sort of)

Self reliant persons need no longer apply

Even when George Orwell warned us of the eyes in the sky

We didn't catch it, pay attention or even try to save it

A future for our children we forced into enslavement

Is this America we see when we walk down the street

Families in tent cities because of bankers playing for keeps

4 million unemployed leads to hard life and hard times

In desperation the best person will resort to crime

Is this America we see when we open our eyes

With people screaming at the government

'Stop all these lies'

With crisis after crisis, they use fear to heard us like sheep

If you recognize the truth they say, 'go back to sleep'

Is this America?

When 1 in 4 has an STD?

Is this America?
When we get so over taxed we can't succeed?

Is this America?

When they don't need a warrant to break into our homes?
Is this America?
When they try to shut down opposing radio shows?

Is this America?
When they choose for doctors who lives and dies?
Is this America?
When we let the Fed take control of our lives?
Is this America?
Is this America?

Redistribtuion (of Guilt)

'A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong

gives it the superficial appearance of being right'

So I stop to ask the question of 'why?'

Why we send our young to fight.

Is it for our freedom that we aggressively

Pursue our enemies overseas?

Nations that we've equipped and trained to one day

Stand on their own two feet

Building an empire while we

Try to take control

Making everything our business we

Try to police the world

And for every solution

Problems multiply two-fold

What happen to letting business

Make our impact on the world?

Or is it something more elusive?

That we cannot properly define?

Spreading democracy by force

Despite the outcry from behind

How can we force democracy on others?

When we're no longer a Republic ourselves?

We've forgotten what it means to be capitalist

And replaced it with this outcry of 'Spread the Wealth'

Building an empire while we

Try to take control

Making everything our business we

Try to police the world

And for every solution

Problems multiply two-fold

What happen to letting business

Make our impact on the world?

Building an empire while we

Try to take control

Making everything our business we

Try to police the world

And for every solution

Problems multiply two-fold

What happen to letting business

Make our impact on the world?

Repeal

Once they sign it, we will never get out again

Sit forever on the shoulders of our children

Cast our health care in a pit of ruin

And once they've signed it, we will never get out again

They say it's in our interest and it will fix everything

Behind closed doors, they bribed it's passage while their lobbyists sing

Because they're winner today, but our day will come

When we cast them out and leave them all def, blind and dumb

Once they sign it, we will never get out again

Sit forever on the shoulders of our children

Cast our health care in a pit of ruin

And once they've signed it, we will never get out again

Here you have a bill that 70% of tax paying citizens hate

We want it repealed but they try to convince that it's too late

The fact that it's unconstitutional doesn't mean a fucking thing

To them, but to us it means suffocating our dreams

Once they sign it, we will never get out again

Sit forever on the shoulders of our children

Cast our health care in a pit of ruin

And once they've signed it, we will never get out again

**Recording Notes - I programmed the drums with my Zoom 234 drum machine and direct input recorded them.  For the distorted parts, I mic'd a Hughes & Kettner Warp 7 head and a generic cab with a Heil PR20 in Magix at my buddy Jeremy's.  I used a Schecter Diamond Series Damian 7-String.  I used the native distortion on the Warp 7 for one side, and Boss Metal Zone MT-2 for the other side.  Recorded vocals with a Heil PR20 in Pro Tools.  For bass, I direct input an Epiphone EB-0 into Pro-Tools. 

Be Progressive!

Bourgeois inequality

Owners of all the property

Progressives of the proletariat

Marxism is just a lariat

The narrative they try to tell us

Preaches only Social Justice

But history tells us the truth

Despite it, they want us to

Be Progressive

For the Collective

But be subjective

What's their objective

They got tax obsessive

Makes them aggressive

They make our laws excessive

Makes them oppressive 

Yeah!

It's become a youth pandemic

Excited by academics

on naive students with polemic

arguments about systemic

failures of capitalism

but it's a faux aproism

Class war's a fake aphrodism

Promoting Communism 

don't

Be Progressive

For the Collective

But be subjective

What's their objective

They got tax obsessive

Makes them aggressive

They make our laws excessive

Makes them oppressive 

Yeah!

**Recording Notes - I programmed the drums with my Zoom 234 drum machine and direct input recorded them.  For the distorted parts, I mic'd a Hughes & Kettner Warp 7 head and a generic cab with a Heil PR20 in Magix at my buddy Jeremy's.  I used a Schecter Diamond Series Damian 7-String.  I used the native distortion on the Warp 7 for one side, and Boss Metal Zone MT-2 for the other side.  Recorded vocals with a Heil PR20 in Pro Tools.  For bass, I direct input an Epiphone EB-0 into Pro-Tools.

March of the Intellectuals

This nation is breaking, apologies for the taking

The outrage that they're faking, a civil war in the making

They fight the economy instead of letting us fix

Then scream hypocrisy if we manage to lift it

It's like they're trying to break us while telling us that they'll save us

Anti-colonial actions dividing people in factions

Persecuting responsible citizens like they're horrible

While holding up all criminals as those that are honorable

Celebrities standing on the graves of children

Authorities treating us like the villian

Politicians trying to disarm the citizens

Then tell another lie, tell another lie

Don't tell me Marx was right

He failed everything he tried in life

He's nothing but a failure

Don't tell me Marx was right

He failed everything he tried in life

He's nothing but a failure

 Look at the bigger picture, it's easy once your figure

that tearing down the free market enslaves their intended target

They think they know better than us cause Marx and Engels earned their trust

with a manifesto based on hate that divided people on a single trait

They promoted class warfare instead of celebrating success

The promoted collectivism instead of praising the best among us

While preaching unity and practicing segregation

Their bi-polar philosophy is destroying our nation

Think of the hypocrisy of creating a classless society 

with a single ruling class assigning each and every single task

They try to pretend it's freedom they sell in our schools

But it's just propaganda with elites making the rules

Celebrities standing on the graves of children

Authorities treating us like the villian

Politicians trying to disarm the citizens

Then tell another lie, tell another lie

Don't tell me Marx was right

He failed everything he tried in life

He's nothing but a failure

Don't tell me Marx was right

He failed everything he tried in life

He's nothing but a failure

**Recording Notes - I programmed the drums with my Zoom 234 drum machine and direct input recorded them.  For the distorted parts, I mic'd a Hughes & Kettner Warp 7 head and a generic cab with a Heil PR20 in Magix at my buddy Jeremy's.  I used a Schecter Diamond Series Damian 7-String.  I used the native distortion on the Warp 7 for one side, and Boss Metal Zone MT-2 for the other side.  For clean tone, I just direct line recorded in Pro Tools.  Recorded vocals with a Heil PR20 in Pro Tools.  For bass, I direct input an Epiphone EB-0 into Pro-Tools.

Understand

And I can't understand as a man how this plan we've been handed

Is supposed to fix the place that we've landed

The hand we've been dealt, and the lives that we've played

Responsibilities forgotten, opportunities wasted away

And I can't understand as a man how this plan we've been handed

Is supposed to fix the place that we've landed

The hand we've been dealt, and the lives that we've played

Responsibilities forgotten, opportunities wasted away

What has America become except unloyal?

And yes, we can blame the cost of oil.

And yes, we can blame Iraq for our troubles.

And we can blame the Wall Street bubble.

And yes, we can blame Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and W;

and all the Republicans, for fighting a war instead of helping you.

We can blame everyone who stripped market regulation

and allowed corporations, speculators and banks

to rape America and run amok.

Never thought about stranded families, lost jobs,
workers sacrificed in their plight

cause they're too busy not giving a fuck.

We can blame everyone we want.

But it doesn't change the path we're on.

Instead of looking back, you could try moving on.

Looking ahead, using your head
finding solutions to the problems

instead whining about the lies you've been fed.

And I can't understand as a man how this plan we've been handed

Is supposed to fix the place that we've landed

The hand we've been dealt, and the lives that we've played

Responsibilities forgotten, opportunities wasted away

And I can't understand as a man how this plan we've been handed

Is supposed to fix the place that we've landed

The hand we've been dealt, and the lives that we've played

Responsibilities forgotten, opportunities wasted away

And yes, you can blame Pelosi, Carter, Clinton,

Rangle, Obama, Dodd and Frank;

and everyone who pushed for 'affordable' housing

for low-income families in the Democrat rank.

Knowing that, when approved, they couldn't pay the bills.

Leaving children starving in the streets in the name of goodwill.

Breaking marriages.  Destroying homes. 

And creating generations of welfare bums.

And then expecting everybody else to pick up the slack

for incompetent decisions, and bring them back on track

when 'Graceland' began to fall.

And we can blame for the programs that have shackled us all.

And yes, we can blame everyone else.

But when it comes down to it, we can only blame ourselves.

We let it happen.  Let it build, let it boom, let it bust.

But at the end of it, it was us.

And I can't understand as a man how this plan we've been handed

Is supposed to fix the place that we've landed

The hand we've been dealt, and the lives that we've played

Responsibilities forgotten, opportunities wasted away

And I can't understand as a man how this plan we've been handed

Is supposed to fix the place that we've landed

The hand we've been dealt, and the lives that we've played

Responsibilities forgotten, opportunities wasted away

*recording notes - cellos created in East West Colossus for a Zero Principle song called There Is A Way.  vocals recorded with Heil PR20.  The remaining music was created in Fruity Loops.