《The Ballad of N.A.T.O.》歌词

[00:00:00] The Ballad of N.A.T.O. - The Tossers

[00:00:17] You say you're telling me right now

[00:00:19] Of how you think that it should be

[00:00:21] By the hand of Democratic law

[00:00:23] And the hand of decency

[00:00:25] But your raging you won't talk law

[00:00:26] To me or tell me any stand

[00:00:28] You're pointing all the fingers

[00:00:30] But refuse to shake the hand

[00:00:32] Instead of sitting content in your ideals and your laws

[00:00:35] You have to tell me what you see

[00:00:38] Cause I can't see a lot

[00:00:39] But I see how Democratic your law is

[00:00:41] When it's revised and necessarily changed

[00:00:42] The Irish were arrested without warrants

[00:00:44] Because they were soldiers armed and estranged

[00:00:46] All's fair in love and war

[00:00:48] Then they were tried without jury

[00:00:49] The act said fear of jurors death threats

[00:00:52] Also no people could object to thee

[00:00:53] They were arrested under special laws

[00:00:55] And tried in diplock juries

[00:00:57] But when asked by Amnesty or other countries

[00:00:59] They were criminalized as terrorists

[00:01:00] So you could ignore political talks

[00:01:02] And ignore political struggling

[00:01:03] So you can hold onto your colony without political juggling

[00:01:07] So you sat firm and quiet in your country

[00:01:09] And morals and common law promoting

[00:01:11] But Nationalists kept coming

[00:01:12] Bombs and people kept exploding

[00:01:29] The Somazas crushed Nicaragua

[00:01:30] The Falklands Angola and Nambia South Africa

[00:01:32] They fought you tooth and nail

[00:01:34] Till they were crushed or you gave up

[00:01:36] You're not a Democracy

[00:01:37] You're a Capitalist empire that colonizes weaker lands

[00:01:40] And taxes natural resource

[00:01:41] Oil diamonds copper exchanging hands

[00:01:42] You put in Democratic so called governments

[00:01:46] As heads of the state

[00:01:47] That are willing to adhere to your bidding

[00:01:49] And reap measly profits from their state

[00:01:50] And you colonize them with phone companies

[00:01:52] Hotels McDonalds and Nike plants

[00:01:54] And erect military bases under the pretense of defense

[00:01:57] But the truth is its defense from revolution

[00:01:59] In case the poor rise up

[00:02:01] Against the governments you've helped to empower

[00:02:03] And make the final stop

[00:02:05] Then you called them a communist menace

[00:02:06] And stage and attack from your own bases

[00:02:08] Then the government death squads destroy their empty faces

[00:02:12] You sent embargos on countries

[00:02:13] Who don't agree or finally do revolt

[00:02:15] A free country can't sell their natural resource

[00:02:17] On a global free market vote

[00:02:19] The countries that sit in the N A T O seats

[00:02:21] Are the same domineering five

[00:02:22] And the butchers they empower

[00:02:23] Keep the rest of the seats alive

[00:02:26] And the countries ostracized by embargo

[00:02:28] That form the rest of the world

[00:02:30] Were forced to form a non-aligned organization

[00:02:31] A union

[00:02:32] So they could be heard

[00:02:33] You call this a free market and your system Democratic

[00:02:36] But it's now a taxing empire that

[00:02:38] Sends its shots out dead sporatic

[00:03:23] Well you can take my contentment my sense of security

[00:03:25] You can beat me from head to toe

[00:03:27] Till I bleed

[00:03:28] You can starve me or freeze me

[00:03:29] Because it's all the same to me

[00:03:30] Because in my mind I know I want to be free

[00:03:32] You sent your psychologist to evaluate me

[00:03:33] And give a report to the paper to read

[00:03:35] I'm more stable than he is I'm beginning to see

[00:03:37] In this frustration of war it's one purpose I see

[00:03:39] I know of your tactics to break people like me

[00:03:41] Separate love forever I'm refused being seen

[00:03:42] In the maze of our memories we live there you see

[00:03:44] In our minds we are together and forever we'll be

[00:03:46] You can murder my land make the skylarks scream

[00:03:48] Just to tell your provincials you'd not turn on them

[00:03:50] Your possessive ego crushes my friends and me

[00:03:51] But I know in my mind that I want to be free

[00:03:53] You fought Ireland as an organized army

[00:03:55] You fought them as a country

[00:03:56] But they fought you as a people

[00:03:58] And you were oblivious as to which serf was defending

[00:04:01] If you act like rats you get treated like this

[00:04:03] But now you are rebutting

[00:04:04] Because we stood like a rock when for tactics

[00:04:06] And answers like rats you were scrambling

[00:04:07] What to report in the media to tell to those to which you lied

[00:04:11] When Angolans and Serbs and Chinese and Nicaraguans

[00:04:14] And Zapatistas and Iranians and Cubans and Irish are

[00:04:16] Always the ones who have died