Pirates Songtext
von Alix Olson

A people as pirates, a people as pirates, a people as pirates, a people as pirates

What's the matter with the brains
Of the big boys with the big money
Are they bruised, are they sore
Are they battered, are they bloody
With the wounds and the scars
Of the people they've mistreated

The scabs and the [?] of the movements they've defeated
(Are they bloody, are they bloody)

See I was taught to believe in the scale of justice
[?] the people with the power in their pockets
They outweigh us and now the executive class
Buys executive branch status by purchasing Supreme Court time
And white collar crime, in this country, becomes a comedy
While the drug war drama gets a bigger, better view
Now it's all lit up in big lights
And coming to a town near you, a town near you


Meanwhile [?] gives millions to the Taliban
To build a pipeline through Afghanistan
And the corporate scam of evil
Is buried deep beneath the sand
Transporting the blood of children
From Palestine, Iraq, and Iran

And somehow the rage flows
From the pipelines to the pipe bombs
Of little white boys in Wisconsin
Somehow the rage flows
To the suicides in Jerusalem cafes
The rage flows to the terror
In the New York City subways
The rage flows to the stones flung in Al Jazerra
Flows with nuclear waste
Down the path of [?]
(The rage flows, the rage flows)

And the TV news anchors say
"Hey, rage flows for no reason
Now stick these antennas in your forehead
Freedom of thought may channel treason
Freedom of thought may channel treason
Freedom of thought just may channel treason"
Well give me one reason, give me one reason
Gimme one good reason to defy my global papal


Cuz we got ninety years if we're lucky on this planet
And I refuse to eat my sandwich between
Commercials for fake butter and cheese
Caffeine and saccharine food us up
And our heightened direct media shoots us up
Until our brains are entombed
Petrified, lying side by side next to our 401ks
And our SUVs encased in caskets, plastered with compliance
Chains stored in the chamber of a Wal-Mart [?] freeze

And outside the sarcophagus of American flags and "God Bless"'s
Our collective conscious is brought right down to it's knees
Brought right down to it's knees
Down to it's knees
(Down to it's knees, down to it's knees)

Praying forgiveness to the station exporting numbness
We're [?] the oil, the ozone, the airwaves and the grain
These are our true colors running
These are our true colors running
These are our true colors running
And they are running away with everything
Running away with everything

Cuz the big boys have smelled our protests
As potent as the poison in our water
Thats why they've squashed them
And are squawking like the chickens in their trucks
I guess they just taste better all cagey and blindfolded
And all freaked out and huddled up
So yeah I say, no atlas is scary
Yes, I confess resistance is chilling
The roadblocks are killing us
And the dead ends keep building
This is a battle of birds, it's a collision of moral proof

This is a people as pirates and we're stealing back the truth
We gotta steal back the truth
(We gotta steal back the truth, we gotta steal back the truth)
This is the people as pirates and we we're stealing back the truth
(We gotta steal back the truth, we gotta steal back the truth)
Cuz they ain't gonna give it back to you
They ain't gonna give it back to you
(You gotta steal back the truth, you gotta steal back the truth)

You gotta steal back the truth from ABC, CBS, NBC
You gotta steal back the truth from CEO to shining CEO
You gotta steal back the truth from Disney, HBO
You gotta steal back the truth from NPR even these days
You gotta steal back the truth
We gotta steal back the truth
We gotta steal back the truth
We gotta steal back the truth

This is a people as pirates, a people as pirates, a people as pirates, a people as pirates, a people as pirates, a people as pirates, a people as pirates
This is a people