A Warning From the Past

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The father land

Pleading for peace

Preparing for war

 

The Fuhrer a hypocrite

Tells the people what they want to hear

While preparing the opposite

The trains run on time

 

Technocratic and lethal

Death and destruction at peak

Paranoid, final solution to deal with imagine dragons

 

The most efficient society

 The rotting flesh still stinks

The death of its victims

The death of its faithful

Very patriotic citizens

 

Policies have been studied

Practices have been copied

This is a warning

That even the land of the free

Can become a slave society

 

Big brother in our pockets

Flickering screens

And you buy your own

They watch and listen

 

In our comfortable complacency

We trade freedoms for security

Building walls against our imagined enemies

Torture, drones, surveillance

As acceptable strategy

 

Our prisons are full

Most citizens serving in the world

We are watched

While drones bomb the innocent

What are we turning into?

 

Memorial Day

Thank you for

Your service

Your undying patriotism

Your generous act of valor

Thank you for

Your heroism

Your selflessness

Your supreme sacrifice

Thank you for

Doing what it takes

To keep democracy alive

To keep freedom free

To keep our families out of harm's way

To cast off tyranny

Shake off oppression

Thank you to

All the men and women

Who have given their lives

To keep this soil

Free and cleansed

Keeping this country

The best in the world