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Cul​-​de​-​Sac Conquistadors

from Can't Turn Back by Ryan Harvey

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There's bombs in your buildings, America the great
And you're terrified of strangers and you foster so much hate
You stormed around this planet tearing at the roots
Now the chicken's are coming home to roost, America
 
Half the world is starving and they're starving cuz of debt
You say "they want an open Market, they just don't know it yet"
As your economic hitmen talk bullshit to the press
The teenage refugees strap explosives to their chests
 
Build a wall along the border, enclose your enemies
Keep food and the water from the hands of those in need
Parade your military, fold flags for the parents
Send them out to occupy and die around the planet
 
America, this your policy
 
There's a war in Northern Pakistan directed from Nevada
By some Summer Soldier playing games on the computer
Is he already dead? Has he been stripped of reason?
Killing from afar while he's comfortably living…
 
This is the country that the rest of the world sees
Ignorant, obnoxious, xenophobic, anti-peace
Cul-de-Sac Conquistadors, with everybody's share
With its hands and soldiers and money everywhere
 
Saying "fuck the world community, we'll go it on our own!"
Dropping bombs on third-world countries to prove how much we've grown
But there's an orphaned generation, just waiting
When it all blows back it's gonna blow up in our faces
 
America, this is our destiny
 
There's bombs in your buildings, America the great
And you're so shocked and awed that people would retaliate
You've run from your past but now the breeze is blowing in
If you wanna heal these wounds then it's a good to time to begin
 
America, because this is real

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from Can't Turn Back, released May 15, 2012

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Ryan Harvey Baltimore, Maryland

Folk singer, writer, activist, and co-owner of Firebrand Records.

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