Blowback

Blowback -- zamarripa
Who’s got the biggest bombs dropping across God’s good earth?
Who started all this death, destruction and hurt?
It’s no secret who they are, masters of war
But who’s paying for it?

Who’s got malware worms hacking the whole wide world?
Who’s behind such fearful symmetry, trouble and toil?
The CIA’s been caught red-handed inside everybody’s door
But by whom is the cost borne?

We pay for it twice
That’s how the story goes
Once with our taxes
Two times with our souls
And where this all goes everybody should know
You better believe it boy, we reap what we sow

Who dropped 26,000 bombs in 2016 alone?
Who dropped the only nuke, to ever drop in war?
Who’s the largest arms dealer in the world?
And who’s paying for it?

Who built Saddam’s army, who scorched Holy ground?
Who aided bin Laden, before the towers crashed down?
Our politicians tell us to bow down and mourn
While they trample every single oath they’ve sworn

We pay for it twice
That’s how the story goes
Once with our taxes
Two times with our souls
And where this all goes everybody should know
You better believe it boy, we reap what we sow

Who pays police for profit and civil asset forfeiture?
Who pays for the War on Drugs which burns across borders?
Who paid for Eric Garner to get murdered in the street?
A father of six selling cigarettes just to make ends meet

Who sells debt to the Fed to destroy our money?
Who tests germ warfare on its own citizenry?
Beware the jaws that bite and claws that catch
While we fund your frumious Bandersnatch

We pay for it twice
That’s how the story goes
Once with our taxes
Two times with our souls
And where this all goes everybody should know
You better believe it boy, we reap what we sow

Well double and double, toil and trouble
The fire will burn and the cauldron will bubble
There’s no excuse to not stop the ways and means
By refusing to pay for violence obscene

So whatcha gonna do, whatcha say, what’s the play?
Ya gotta shout from the rooftops of the world in every which way
And grab the tiger by the tail, make a show, don’t let go
Until you starve that brutal beast so the blood don’t flow no more

We pay for it twice
That’s how the story goes
Once with our taxes
Two times with our souls
And where this all goes everybody should know
You better believe it boy, we reap what we sow