American hyperbole Far greater Than the Super Bowl A insidious mole Within our secret societal skull No the American hyerbole Is the global selling of democracy Well, at least our form of democracy And irreverent tendency To twist and subvert justice While exalting our way and us The propaganda machine Which speaks forth untruthfully Masquerades arrogantly Maximizing the media cleverly Professing principles and morality While covertly preferring hypocrisy Cover-ups politically and militarily Governmental coups dastardly Blantant misuses of intelligence Deceptively and discretely Mischaracterizing the facts blatantly To paint a picture falsely In order to sway the populace wholeheartedly Peddling fear and homeland security As a pretext to enter war Without provacation to even the score To overthrow non-existent al Qaeda operatives With whiskey Pete and chemical derivatives The Fallujah massacre peremptory imperatives As for the Coalition of the Willing Whoever goes along lives The dissident international community With whom our objectives disagree Our reasons for being in Iraq Are undoubtedly oil and energy Yet to the UN and our allies We must carefully realize To tell them another story Lest we reveal the intent of Dick Cheney He and his big oil cronies Maneuvering governmental policies Swaying legislative bodies Reforming intel bureaucracies To perform the will of the Saudis Powerfully pushing and profiting An agenda of defense with Bandar To mobilize and further the Iraq war From Iraq we move on to Iran Progressively implementing the plan A new Saudi war machine in the land Implementing what they learned from the USA 72 Eurofighter Typhoon Saudi aircraft Ready to go for which they've already paid Now when the time is right they'll invade BBC covered it, but not in the USA Where American media are told what to say As for America, abroad few will stand For their lies and exaggeration Which at home fill and flourish throughout the land The few skeptics are deemed eccenctic Not fit for the body politic Hence they must be demonized And moved aside While Bush Co. prepares to chide Those weary of war Those who question his intent Those disgruntled by funds ill spent Those of another ideological bent Hence Cheney huddles With Saudi royals beneath the tent Of turmoil and uncertainty While proclaiming all is well publicly Be encouraged everyone After all "mission is accomplished" "Enormous successes" have been achieved The American people have been deluded While brave soldiers die and bleed The Butcher of Baghdad has been overthrown Now a new breed of terror has filled his home A civil war termed "sectarian violence" The American soldiers are losing resilience Nevertheless don't admit it Tell the world we're "winning" And call it brilliance Such denial is utter defiance Meanwhile we try to change a regime Yet we don't know who's on our team Neither do we know What Shiites and Sunnis mean Hence they are numerable atrocities Daily bombings and fatalities I suppose however we'll fight for eternity Until the USA can rule and reign economically Over Middle East oil for which it lusts insatiably Therefore let us stay the course And the Saudi royals not divorce After all sleeping with the devil And denying evil could be worse At least we've got fuel for the golf course Meanwhile we claim to be in a fight for freedom Juxtapose the two, you know what to do Side with the American military might Big brother will teach you alright How to dominate the globe by defense Spare no taxpayer expense Render rhetoric with elegance Twist truth with mesmerizing confidence Deny accusations of lying By the Patriot Act permit domestic spying Spare no extravagance In pontificating propaganda nation Just feed us more lies and exaggeration.
