CAPITALIST CASUALTIES LYRICS

1. Drainage Ditch

We're all smokers here
But not worth with cigarettes
Soot filled gas by-products
Send us to our deaths
Societies riot and burn
Cheaper when it burns
Reaper's scythe returns
Cheaper when it burns
Oils spills, cholera outbreaks
Deltas and wetlands break

2. Suicide Mission

American cop in Iraq
Torn to shit by Sunni rounds
No parade for his shattered frame
No burial for America's shame
Frag the cop
Close down shop
Suicide mission when at home
Locked the bedroom, pistol at his throat
No blood for oil, blood for pain
Misery increased wife and kids pay
Camo fatigue
Head shots bleeds
Homecoming was not to be expected
Now in a prison of mind and soul
Fortunate son, gunned himself down
Pride and prejudice eating dead bodies whole
Surge in effect
Leaders derelict
Surge in effect
Leaders in derelict

3. Irukandji

Silent death that floats
Off the Great Barrier Reef
This man killer is rarely found
They shun the deep water
Ever so clever as they hug the shore
Only the size of a thumbnail
People clamored for a cure
A sting from the tentacle is
A potent cocktail of toxins
Irukandji syndrome is pain, anxiety, paralysis
One square inch of tentacle contains
Five million harpoon-like structures
Billions of stinging capsules called nematocysts
The fastest mechanism in the animal world
Six species of this tiny killer
Have opened up Pandora's Box
There is no cure for the unholy pain
That racks your entire body
Mother Nature's perfect cover for the perfect crime

4. Selfish Parochialism

Laid waste in the dirt
Government and incompetence collide
Greed led to crap, engineering mishap
Crave the incoming blood money crap
Money grab
Country on a slab
No one to collect the lives that lay wrecked
Agency clones lose all control
Governors bicker, cash disappears quicker
Stolen by frauds and political mobs
Disaster replenishes the coffee of liars
Waterboarding the last living desire
American disgrace as our cities flood and fire
Money grab
Country on a slab

5. Golden Handshake

Termination of employment
Days spent in a cubicle
A significant severance package
An executive employment clause
You spent the last 15 years
Thinking your dedication would be
Rewarded with the golden handshake
Supposedly providing for four years
Of corporate enslavement
Carpet pulled from under your feet
All that time & effort
Consumed the best years of your life

6. Deferment

Congressman's spawn
Bathed in wealth
Secure in health
At home safe and sound
Gets a free ride
While poor kids die
For White House lies
Born in squalor
In U.S. ghettos
Recruiter prowls
For new casualties
No free ride
Prepare to die
American pride
Families cry
Money can't hide
Deferments collect
Poor sent to death
No free ride
Prepare to die
American pride

7. Striations

The colors of bloodshed
Splash in colorful hues
Radiant striations
Raise the war generation
I.E.D. blood letter
Sending dead sons home
Super Bowl Sundays, assholes getting fed
Marketplace slaughter home, 120 dead

8. Corporate Retreat

Lobbyists reap blood money
Harvested off of dead Iraqis
Civil war ends generations
Bloodlines carved in policy
If it was 1934
The Third Reich would be taking notes
Corporate retreat
Beggars at your feet
Corporate retreat
Dead on the streets

9. Trenchant Analysis

Power has many whores
Those that beg, those that kill
They screen the nightly bullshit
Starved nation swallows it whole
Until the next distraction
Sold your self absorption
The scrutiny of vultures
Cleared for daily airtime
Spin the White House drivel
You'll see what they want
Until the next distraction
Kills your motivation







CAPITALIST CASUALTIES LYRICS