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Empire Building

by Bill White

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no need to choose a side just open your eyes open your eyes and you'll see there a war goin on theres a war goin on theres a war goin on nobody loses nobody wins its just the state of the world we are living in it started with a rumor then became a fact somenoe was pulling something out behind somebodys back their bayonets were fixed never intermixed would their blood be with the bloody wasves rolling in from the sorrowful sea repeat chorus its no wonder why the baby cries when we pitch one set of lies against another set of lies its not a question of points of view my side isnt me your side isnt you its the books we have read that our fighting each other lets put our books down and love one another theres no bottom to get to i aint no sleuth aint no way i can get to the truth its a mistake of the hands in this no mans land where every thing has gone wrong now theres a war goin on repeat chorus everythings comng up threes we dont have to agree but theres a war goin on in our hearts and minds we have cut the ties that bind theres a war goin on you may not see it yet but when you do you wont forget theres a war goin on just as sure as the wind does blow everybody has got to go theres a war goin on repeat chorus
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It doesnt matter what I believe Im not going to interfere with you Be whoever you want to be Do whatever you want to do You might be a homophobic racist and I might be a Puerto Rican queer But that dont mean shit to me We're both alive and we are here In our hearts we are brothers And will stand together with each other Come hell or come high water When the tanks are in the street It doesnt matter to me Whether you are on the right or left Its just your way of saying How you want your taxes spent Some want health education and welfare Others want industry and war The only thing worth fighting for Is the safety of our people When the National Guard tears up our streets. Repeat chorus I woudn't kill a chicken if i were hungry But I wont interfere with your right to own a gun but if you wear a badge and abuse it ill raise my hand against you to protect the ones i love In 1864, General sherman burned Atlanta 26 years later, President Harrison massacred the Lakota tribes A hundred years of atrocities, then 76 men women and children in Waco Texas burned alive Is that what they refer to when they pray to return to simpler times? Repeat Chorus
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I guess that politicians and priests Are immune to the laws of the street Theyre not like you and me We pay the price when we cause misery Chorus But as sure as the sun does shine This is not a sin This is a crime And these criminals have got to do their time So let the trials begin They say Be like Jesus and forgive\ Well that’s fine if youre talking about sin But there is a law for what those priests And the politicians did to those kids Repeat chorus the Pope was as radical as he seems He would reverse the laws on celibacy Take it from Jesus and you will learm Its better to marry than to burn Repeat chorus
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Her idea of unity is everyones support She can change the numbers if the voting comes up short Shes the DA judge and jury in her kangaroo-ey court but she is not my queen. she put a warrant out on Jason then she steals the golden fleece Took the head of John the Baptist then baptized the police She is the goddess of a planet spinning till her orders cease But she is not my queen she deplores the working classes and shoves them up her ass with torture and witchcraft she can revise the past but all the books of blood declare that filth and rot dont last And she is not my queen She is the fifth wheel in the gang of four On the road to perdition she is the door the church made her a saint and she was adored But she is not my queen She seduces her uncle and becomes his spouse Sets the dogs on her children and burns down the house Then sniffs out the traitors with her elongated snout And she is not my queen
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Pooman Rolanski, Im gonna block out your name from the book of life The movies you made will be forgotten We gonna kick you out of the directors guild Shut you up in a rapist prison Huston Duff, gonna freeze your balls then cut em off Forgan Meman, your hands need tyin and your mouth needs cleanin Bend over, Masturbater spread that ass Im talkin to you, Dickhell Moonglass Ven Bereen, pressin with a dick Borge Gus, ass grabber Gonna put you both in the ham slammer Im gonna shove the electric stick up the ass of Raul Sorrowvitch Keep in in your pants, Dickhard Whyfuss As for you Tames Joback, I got 200 women in line, waiting to eat your corpse And theres a special place in hell for you, Seven Kasey Right next to Lames Jevine You rapers of teenage boys And as for you, John Raremeat ,whorefucking porno star Raping women in the street Im taking you to the death house But Im cool with Clinton He's alright I'm cool with Clinton Getting together with him tonight I'm cool with Clinton We're both on the same flight I'm cool with Clinton He's alright
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come round you presidents acknowledge your bastards give them a piece of the pie you all have many children you cannot account for but theres a flawless census taker in the sky and he will becoming round by and by chorus ma ma where'smy pa gone to the white house, ha ha ha jefferson had a child with his slave sally and got re elected for another term the voting public didnt believe it could be true it wasnt the sort of thing a president would do but Jefferson did it and Harrison and Tyler did it too take off your clothes lie on your back and its howdy ya do i wouldnt be surprised if abe lincoln had himself a few those northern slave owners were the pits bunch of god damned hypocrites chorus president harding and a gal named nan used to do in the closet ..can ya dig it man? but when one day she slipped a sucker he put his dick away and nevermore did fuck her one thing youcan say for donald trump and on this i am not kiddin he married the whores who gave him kids and paid off the ones who didnt chorus madeline brown had a kid named steven lyndon johnson was the daddy but no body believed em he had a white house harum bigger than king farouks what would he want with a piece of madeline goop after knocking her up said she was like ice cream in the summer and after 21 years she kinda melted down because this great lover lyndon was tired of having her around he dumped her when her face got wrecked in a car wreck and told his bastard son steven get your goddam arms off my neck chorus i remember this one son of a bitch his given name was grover he raped maria halpin in the clover she had a baby , poor little orphan his mother tucked away in an insane asylum by the president of the united states j ust another fart sucking truth duckin bum a crooked politiican the nation believed in the motherfuckers name was grover cleveland chorus
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What's it all about Alfie? You will never know Your parents pleaded for your life Bloody England answered no Chorus ....Come back Alfie come back to your mothers breast but Alfie willnever come back He was murdered by Theresa May Brexit They made a law in 89 to protect children from their parents Where is the law to protect children from governments The bastard bitch of brexit let poor alfie die But the Eurepean union listened to his parents' cry Papa Francisco begged the fiend Send Alfie to Italy The whole family will become Italian citizens Just leave it up to me Poland stepped in to offer the best in medical care Germany offeredmuch the same Brexit said the baby stays here Three judges dress in robes of fire rejected all appeals and said The baby must die. This is is the kindest course of treatment,we feel Youan shove your judges up the statue of your Protestant whore We'renot even citizens of your damn country anymore In countries with a government the governor has the right To tell a death row convict he can live another night But in the merry state of england the prime minister will not stand Up for the right of a baby boy to grow into a man The doctors they are guilty of the darkest crime The law will comfrom Italy to see they do their time me, is send them to Nuremberg and hang them by the neck these bastard warlock sons of bitches dont deserve to live
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American Boy 04:05
I never learned how to shoot a gun Never in my life have I hit a home run I never learned to drive a car Never fell in love at the end of a bar These are not the things that bring me joy Never wanted to be an American Boy I was born under ancestral sin Spawn of the killers of the Indians All my life Ive heard nothing but lies About the blue and the gray and the red and the white I want to raise my voice in a song of joy And forget about the myth of the American boy I knew a kid whose father Walked on the moon Looked back at the Earth Like a dish at a spoon When that kid grew up He rode with the Klan Set fire to a church And murdered a man Lets forget about the myth of the American Boy And find something better find something joyful Sing something sweeter Sing Something true About what you think of me and what I think of you A handful of dust from a burned out star Fell into the mud and here we are Moving like flashes of light in a picture show And what we really are I don’t think anybody knows Never wanted to be an American Boy Playing with the world like it was my little toy Lets find something to share that we all can enjoy And forget about the myth of the American Boy Forget about the myth of the American boy I never wanted to be an American Boy
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the father of the country Was a dealer in slaves During the whiskey rebellion He dug the moonshiners' graves He believed that the battlefield was a chessboard of the gods And the united states of America was given favorable odds President madison he got so upset at the british ships sailing against americans best he declared war against them tried to take canada too The fire in his backyard burned a hole in his shoe old woodrow wilson kept us out of the war until he decided to expand the empire more unconditional surrender wa supposed o make the world safe for democracy instead it gave birth to the soviets and the nazis Watch out you commies for the truman report he'll shoot you down just for the sport the way he handled korea was nothing short of insane the truman doctrine is still running the game Warren G Harding was elected in 1920 He returned the country to normalcy Out with the immigrants , the catholics and jews Up with corruption we sang the workingmans blues Then came Calvin Coolidge the silent blowhard Busted up the police union with the national guard Sacco and Vanzetti were executed on his watch While organized crime was boosted a notch when the stock market crashed in 1929 hoover assured us everything would be fine but the depression got darker, things kept getting worse hoover just tightened the strings of the government purse everybody says carter was such a nice guy he gave the bloodthirsty shah a safe place to hide which endangered the lives of hostages in iran while he sold rifles to the taliban farmers lost their farms during the reign of reagun from the presidents voodoo, the economy was spun buying guns for the contras with the money from drugs while the aids epidemic was swept under the rug from one creep to another this nations been pushed from johnson to clinton from nixon to bush with each empire builder another piece of it dies and things are not any different with trump on our side

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released September 9, 2018

although i write a lot of social and political protest songs, this is my first thematically unified political album,

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