Firecracker - Strung Out

Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues\nFirecracker\nThe other day I swear to God\nI got a letter in the mail that\nsaid register with us\nor you’re gonna go to jail\nyou’ll be put inside a cage,\nthen forced to enlist.\nWell I laughed out loud,\nsaid I won’t comply\nto be labeled as one of those\nwho qualify\nto be shipped off\nto fight some fucking war.\n'Cause war’s not about policy\nreligion, it’s about economy\nand I’m not dying\nto set your country free!\nI’ll never bow to your expectations,\nI never have I never will\nI’m not a puppet, pawn, or figurehead,\nI’m a man of my own free will\nour freedoms are slowly surrendered\nas they take more than their fill\nhow much power is ever enough\nfor the men,\nthe men on Capitol Hill.\nThey’re cuttin’s back on welfare,\nIL legalizing harmlessness,\nam I the only one to see\nthere’s something wrong with this\nI don’t have the answers,\nwon’t pretend to say I will\nbut to put my trust in government,\nI think I’d rather kill!\nOh mighty word democracy\nspells freedom for you and me\nthe books have all been written\nand the prophets denied\nlittle by little watch this state begin to fall\nas we awaken from this dream\nand find ourselves nailed to the wall\nOh firecracker\npatriotic lire,\nyou were burnin' bright\nthe day the country died,\nin all your glory in all your Pride.\nLight the way torch of Liberty,\nlight the sky for the whole world to see,\nin all your glory in all your pride.