Jamie Green: Music
Cold Storage
V1 In a quaint town hall meeting Staged by the President Still AWOL From the Alabama National Guard A middle-aged female patsy Asked with all sincerity Why the press focuses Only on the negativity B-sect 1 Ooh yeah, the press is so negative yeah Telling all the dirty truths, yeah Nothin’ but the corporate truth, yeah Oh yeah. V2 So the President told her She should check the Internets And I thought I’d try that too Find the good despite the bad And I found Iraqi bloggers There on the Internets Asked them what was the good news Cuz the Prez said there was B-sect 2 Ooh yeah, all the bright shiny news, yeah Newly liberated lands, yeah Happy-go-lucky plans To rebuild Whenever Chorus Not their honor Not clean water Not democracy Not their medicine Not their doctors Not their decency So what have Americans brought us? Just cold storage For the corpses And what have Americans taught us? Peace is War and War is Justice V3 Can’t you see that there’s no use Nothing good can come of it All the scandals and abuse Committed daily in our names Extensive lists of the War Crimes Evil men with oil ties Still you believe all their lies Like we should “stay the course” B sect 4 Ooh yeah 7 out of ten Iraqi’s say LEAVE 70 percent of troops wanna LEAVE So why does Hilary say STAY And what do you say to… Repeat Chorus Not their honor Not clean water Not Security Not their medicine Not their doctors Not their decency So what have Americans brought us? Just cold storage For the corpses And what have Americans taught us? Peace is War and War is Justice Outro 1600 soldiers and counting 1900 soldiers and counting 2300 soldiers and counting 2600 soldiers and counting and counting 14,000 wounded and counting 16,000 wounded and counting 18,000 wounded and counting 19,000 wounded and counting and counting 30, 000 civilians NOT counting 100,000 civilians NOT counting 150, 000 civilians and we are not counting, not counting WHY IS IT THAT WE'RE NOT COUNTING?