Jay Mankita<\/a> 2004
\n“They Lied”<\/p>\nThey lied, they lied; they took us for a ride
\nTried burying the truth, where it very nearly died
\nThey lied, they lied; but no matter what they tried to hide
\nSing and shout, the truth wins out, everybody knows they lied
\nThey Lied. . .<\/p>\n
I ain’t telling you nothing you don’t already know
\nBut the governments been lying to you, Joe
\nThey’re shaking your hand, while they’re showing you the door
\nTo a foreign land so you can fight the poor
\nWhere every Arab is a terrorist
\nHiding weapons that don’t exist
\nYou can join a coalition of willing nations
\nWilling to kill civilians for the corporations<\/p>\n
Tonight is the night that you give up your rights
\nTo the Patriot Act and the perilous fight
\nBut you won’t remember which country you’re in
\nwhen you wake up in the morning by the dawns early light
\nAnd if it reminds you of the Third Reich
\nYou better keep quiet if you don’t like it
\nYou better watch your backs and cover your tracks
\nCause you’re payin for it all with your federal tax
\nThey Lied<\/p>\n
Now come on, did you see that presidential smirk?
\nDon’t look now, its Captain Kirk!
\nHes an arrogant jerk, though likeable, too
\nBut the Federations been lying to you
\nThe Federation, the corporation, the supposed to be public radio
\nstation
\nViolating the neutral zone to promote the imperial corporate nation<\/p>\n
Blow up Afghanistan, nuke Iraq,
\nWe got the biggest phasers on the block.
\nWere worlds policeman around the clock
\nyou’ve got the com, now, Mr. Spock
\nAnd to the victors go the spoils,
\nDilithium crystals, petroleum oil
\nThey hate our freedoms for no good reason
\nArabs, and Klingons, it’s open season
\nThey Lied<\/p>\n
So you know that the governments been lying to you
\nAnd I know that you know that it ain’t nothing new
\nThat’s politicians that’s what they do
\nThey’ve been lying since 1492
\nThey didn’t teach me when I was a kid
\nAbout all of the terrible things that we did
\nWell always honor this sacred treaty
\nWith a smallpox covered blanket, sweetie<\/p>\n
Agent Orange, and napalm, Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam
\nIran\/Contra, Watergate, it’s a history of the criminal state
\nThey’re spoon feeding us right out of the box
\nWere fair and balanced says the fox
\nWhile talk show shills are shouting out
\nIt’s the liberals we’ve got to be worrying about
\nThey Lied<\/p>\n
My mom said, really, if the news was controlled
\nBy corporate money, and held in a stranglehold
\nI would have already heard about it on the TV
\nIf it was really so important, then I would have been told
\nBy the newscasters, and the pundits, and anchors
\nAnd their pals, the politicians, the generals, and bankers
\nYou say they’re doing the old bait and switch
\nBut why would they lie? They’re already rich<\/p>\n
Power corrupts, it’s the ancient trend
\nThe list of lies will never end
\nNew lies are coming around the bend
\nSpeak truth to power if truth is your friend
\nThey lie to me, they lie to you,
\nThey lie to themselves, but that’s nothing new
\nThey lie to the press, the press passes the buck
\nThey lie to the world, now everybody duck!
\nThey Lied<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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