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small tin gods
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"America The Beautiful" Plays on piano, as the song comes into it's chorus Randy Weaver says "You know what freedom means to me? It means not being a'scared of nothing. When you're scared, you're in your own fence, and that's where they want you. We have no freedoms. We're free to do what they tell us, and if you don't..... because you're not scared of them, then you're truly free. They've got us so scared that we'll believe their lies. We're afraid of small tin gods"...... "America The Beautiful ends with a big upward arpeggio, then a huge crash as I smash both hands into my bass register, from the crash arises the music for "s.t.g."......
1. Used to be you could live your life Mind your business, get along… Now everyone’s a criminal But their so called “laws” are vile and wrong Most of those who are born to wealth Your lawyers, feds and cops And all the crooked politicians Who’ve been paid for, sold and bought Watch the rest of us outside their castle walls With nervous eyes As they suck the blood from freedom And they waste our children’s lives In murder, misdirection and distraction They all hide Hoping that our abattoir Gets built in time…
2. The working man sits numbly In the glow of his t.v. He listens to the talking heads Deluding him to think he’s free And like the servant that he is He spends more than he earns Dancing to the fiddlers tune That plays on as our country burns By the time he figures something’s wrong It’s gonna be too late And when they come to take him in He’ll probably just cooperate Can’t speak for you but I’m real tired Of their jackboots on our necks I know about the damage done, I’ve seen the lives they’ve wrecked…
3. A slave is told what he believes, A free man learns to think And every empire throughout time Has teetered on the brink And as they feel control slip It’s police states and war But a Patriot will not submit To these Dirty Bastards anymore Please watch the news with a jaded view And try to exercise The mind that you were born with As you listen to their lies Prepare yourselves and those you love For the storm we’ll have to face ‘Cause everything is on the line And we can’t let ‘em win this race Oh no………
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4. I hope by now you’re tired Of their jackboots on our necks And if your lucky your life Isn’t one they’ve ruined yet If you even had a little clue Of the things that they’ve got planned for you You’d help us put these small tin gods in check Yeah, if your even had a little clue Of the shit they wanna rain on you You’d throw the switch And their hellbound train……………………… Would wreck.
As the final notes of "s.t.g." play, Randy speaks again. "I like to be on the winning side. I've been on the losing side before, lost the most precious thing you can lose...family members... When they start murdering your family members it takes the wind out of your sails for a while, just from the pure sorrow of it all. If it scares you, pretend like you're not afraid, and your enemy will see this and say "Better not fuck with him, he might bite back".......You know what overcomes fear?......... That's.....that's hatred...and when they fuck with you so bad that you Hate them.....with a real passion, they can't scare you anymore. You say "Bring it on sonofabitch, winner take all"....
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