9/11 Overview
Back in the day the states gave them the weapons
Before media reality, before we were threatened
So we send off our men to avenge for 9-11
The event was tragic, but so is getting even
A change of heart from a country that doesn’t care
If the man down the street is down to his underwear
His kids can be starving, but those kids aren’t yours
Pop the money for defence, pop the money for the towers
Why don’t you think for yourself when the telly screams peril
Bombings used to be more, the IRA bombed several
London wasn’t screaming, didn’t panic like fools
They honoured their dead but didn’t brainwash their schools
There wasn’t this terror when K.K.K. were lynching the black
But it’s a right to bear arms, the NRA’s got your back
Shooting each other, you think you’re ruling the world
If it’s lead by example then this story had to be told
Without those planes there’d be no invasion
No racists using power in mass people persuasion
Good people afraid, because of Islamic descent
Stupid people hating as perspectives are bent
If you want to generalise then I’ve got more respect
For black America, than what white-trash have wrecked
Whole countries are dieing and it takes two towers
Before you look up and acknowledge your power
You’re killing the people you’re trying to save
Good intentions are lost,when your soldiers aren’t trained
They rape and they pillage, even if it’s only a few
Can you imagine what would happen if they did it to you
Nearly forty million live below the poverty line
Just in your country, more than the population of mine
His kids can be starving but those kids aren’t yours
Pop the money for defence, pop the money for the towers
You could be feeding yourselves but politics rules
A stable economy fooling the fools
America would fall the moment it cared for the poor
Your capitalist Jesus damning them all
The have-nots are nothing, and it was no coincidence
That Katrina was ignored and wasn’t an incident
Until your government realised other countries were watching
Chanel seven lifting people out before a single soldier was marching
U.S. of A. – super power or not
Your people are suffering of an internal rot
There’s no safety or welfare, it’s not strong it’s slack
And the whole world’s laughing behind you’re back
You're ruled by fear, the majority can't think for itself
Free speech was lost the morning the news hit the twelth
//Pop money for defence, pop the money for the towers...//
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