Some Original Songs print problems (<1K)
Perform at your own risk.
Alternate antiwar lyrics to popular karaoke tunes be found here.
General Rap
You who spy through lethal crosshairs
Did you read the dodgy dossiers?
Cut and paste to launch a war
That breaches International Law
If you read Iraqui history
Hatred of you aint no mystery
Bombings, sanctions, toxic dust
Make your moral claims a bust
Who spare the time to check the facts
Know the motives for your acts
Chomsky, Pilger, Fisk and more
Check em out, you'll learn the score
Seems your sacred moral duty
Is to guard wargotten booty
Oils the fundamental why,
You've been sent out there to die
Bush Defiant, Bring 'em On
Safe to say once home he's gone
Iraqui's armed and you are too.
Self Defence. But just for you.
Ethics muddy but rules are clear.
No tribuneral for you to fear.
Polystyrene, Kerosene
Brand new napalm nice and green
Terror weapons in your war
Just what are you fighting for?
Britains army the world best
But best get mum to buy your vest
Set out proud to liberate
But you'll not be back till late
Cos the tyrant you o'erthrew
Kinda looks a lot like you
Arrests,detention without charge
Curfews, Beatings, Wire and Bars

Osama he Bin Relagated
Iraq connection intimated
Iraquis blew Dubya T C
Iraquis got Dubya M D
And Dubya wants Iraquis free
Any one is good but take all three
Evidence? can't let you see.
We're bringing them dem-o-cracy
But no elections, no siree
Can't have Iraq run by Shi'ites
Who don't respect our oil rights

Bush said the time for peace has gone
He blamed the French, a wicked non
And Took some time to slam the hun
Where's their martial spirit gone?
Bomb maim kill with blood a plenty
Thats the war to start the century
No U-N, they can't be trustecd
Send US in, its done and dusted
Check that flight suit, him the man
With B five twos who needs a plan?
Here's the only plan they made.
Protect the oil and fuck the aid.

Threat assessment kinda lame
Faulty intell. What a shame.
No Dubya MD. But who knew?
Ritter, Ekeus and VIPS too.
Intel always wants for facts
But they stripped all the caveats
Sexed up spun and over egged
Whistleblowers wound up dead
Today on Questions One Two Three
The mystery source identity
Guess again you're nearly there
You must just catch him unaware
Oops he's dead. And its not good.
Died just how he said he would.
Hutton kissed Blairs's Bushwacked arse
White washed Whitehall, What a farce
The veneer flaked in just one day
Public saw through right away
Word search Hutton there's a game
Bahai and Pederson germaine
To further show judicial scam
No Mass Appeal or Rockingham
No Porton Down No MASON too
Don't ask what leaking boffins know
Just what do they shovell you?
Now its Butler for round two
What they're told not what they do

Contempt for such chicanery
Is known as voter apathy
But is it lazy to despise
Spin and sleaze and blatant lies?

Was it Battlefield?
Ten don't know.
He didn't ask. They didn't show.
Cyprus at risk?
Shit, don't ask Tone.
He's got Dubya on the phone
Yes sir, no sir
Woof woof woof
Seems Mandela speaks the truff
Put a flight-suit on a chimp
He's the Boss and Blair his gimp
US voters must be dumb
Branded cattle, herded scum
Taken through the next election
With another war erection
Private Lynch exceeds by far
The best of Soviet Cinema.
Toppled statue. But best to crop.
Make the crowd with photoshop.
You still beleive it. Who the chump?
They say terror, you all jump.
Lies get bigger by the day
TV news the American way
Iraqui death toll daily grown
Officially kept a known unknown
Heres the truth now don't you doubt it.
Buy McNews and read about it.
The worse the truth, the less they hear it
The less the risk, the more they fear it
Liberty and Justice Too
For all, not some
The chant kids do
Its kinda one thing or the other
When one human jails another
But they aint trained to ask or think
Just chant, consume, and eat and drink
Changed the name to Freedom Fries
Spelling potatoe fors the wise
And French a word unfit for food
Opposing wars is just plain rude
Liberty a french word true
That comes with another two
Took the one which suited you
And stripped the meaning, right by right
Replaced them all
With right of might
No evolution taught in schools
History all by the rules
An experiment to see
Just how dumb can humans be?

Agfghanistan was so last year
Nothing left therde for Us to fear
Growing opium, but why not?
Cash crop. Free market. All that rot.
It kills kids, but hey thats OK.
You gotta fund the CIA
It just goes on. The facts relentless.
Knocks spots off that intern temptress
Nine eleven. White House knew.
Follow the money, wealth accrued.
Partriot Acts. Ain't it great.
Living in the new police state?
All those rights you thought you had
Guess again. Read their Jihad
Constitution? Fucks the lot.
Look at all the powers they got.
No due process. Off you go
Down Gulag Guantanemo
Unlikely they will come for you
So why speak out for those they do?
Its racist to defend such scum
Just look at what they say they've done
Round em up and gas the lot
They don't respect the laws we've got
When have we heard that before?
When they want to start a war

The media I take to task
For the questions that they don't ask.
No journalists , just embeddeds
With their pencils well deleaded
They now embedd for protests too
Free Speach Zone's the place for you
Shout Hiel Bush and thats Okay
Free Speach the American way
Say no to war and you're a traitor
Filthy pinko agitator
Subpoened records
Flights black list
You spoke your mind
And now they're pissed
Other nations look askance
At the replayed facist dance
Hire some PR, run some adds
Make it look like US ain't bad
Though its easy to see through
Lesser men just don't want to
Self image served by truth denial
Distractions served up by the pile
Sycophantic media whores
Prancing while we start new wars
Plastic singers plastic songs
Tits and teeth seldom go wrong
Manufactured synthpop trash
Versificator. Sounds for cash.
Just don't copy. Or they'll sue.
Celeb gossip just for you
Botoxed faces, sil'con boobs
Plato's shadows on the tube
Wake up morons, you've been had
What's it take to make you mad?
You've been lied to
But you don't get it
Buying trash on plastic credit
Patrotism, is all you got
Mindless spineless emotive rot
It's Really Scum

There is something to beware
And its settlin' everywhere
Yet nobody seems to care
It's really scum.

They all say to be polite
As its happening out of sight
But i say thats thats not right
It's really scum

[ Chorus:
It's really scum,
I won't stay dumb
It's really scum, scum, scum, scum scum.

It's really scum,
I won't stay dumb
It's really scum, scum, scum, scum scum. ]

It's spreading far and wide
And some people they have died
But we seldom hear implied
It's really scum.

Some tell me its divine
Say that God fortold its time
But I just don't buy that line
It's really scum

[Chorus]

Its time to understand
That this scum it has a plan
It encroaches all the land
It's really scum

And there is something you should know
We are helping it to grow
Yet remorse we do not show
It's really scum

[Chorus]

You might ask what can i do
If the thing you say is true
I say you should say it too
It's really scum

The more there are who cry it
All the harder to deny it
Lets all sing it now to try - it's
Really Scum!

[ Chorus repeated with max audience participation]
( If challenged, claim to be singing about the
threat of "grey goo" nanotech )
----------------------------------
(c) Ian Bell 3/5/2003
----------------------------------

Please State America
When asked for the land where the people are free
Please state America
Where the Patriot Acts protect liberty
Please state America
When asked where protest harms security
Please state America
Where we care what you read in the library
Please state America

When asked who needs touch screen democracy
Please state America
Where growing a plant leads to forfeicy
Please state America
When asked whats the cusisine thats best for me
Please state America
Where the health of the kids is a joy to see
Please state America



Copyright (c) Ian Bell 2003
Adopt. Adapt. Duplicate. Perform.



Some classic lyrics from the "Bremner,Bird and Fortune" UK satire show can be found at http://members.lycos.co.uk/cgecommand .
Back to the Vortex
Counter
Back to Ian Bell's home page