| Back when Eisenhower was the President,
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| Golf courses was where most of his time was spent.
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| So I never really listened to what the President said,
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| Because in general I believed that the General was politically dead.
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| But he always seemed to know when the muscles were about to be flexed,
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| Because I remember him saying something, mumbling something about a Military
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| Industrial Complex.
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| Americans no longer fight to keep their shores safe,
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| Just to keep the jobs going in the arms making workplace.
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| Then they pretend to be gripped by some sort of political reflex,
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| But all they’re doing is paying dues to the Military Industrial Complex.
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| The Military and the Monetary,
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| The Military and the Monetary,
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| The Military and the Monetary.
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| The Military and the Monetary,
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| get together whenever they think its necessary,
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| They turn our brothers and sisters into mercenaries, they are turning the
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| planet into a cemetery.
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| The Military and the Monetary, use the media as intermediaries,
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| they are determined to keep the citizens secondary, they make so many decisions
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| that are arbitrary.
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| We’re marching behind a commander in chief,
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| who is standing under a spotlight shaking like a leaf.
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| but the ship of state had landed on an economic reef,
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| so we knew he was going to bring us messages of grief.
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| The Military and the Monetary,
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| were shielded by January and went storming into February,
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| Brought us pot bellied generals as luminaries,
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| two weeks ago I hadn’t heard of the son of a bitch,
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| now all of a sudden he’s legendary.
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| They took the honour from the honourary,
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| they took the dignity from the dignitaries,
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| they took the secrets from the secretary,
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| but they left the bitch in obituary.
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| The Military and the Monetary,
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| from thousands of miles away in a Saudi Arabian sanctuary,
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| had us all scrambling for our dictionaries,
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| cause we couldn’t understand the fuckin vocabulary.
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| Yeah, there was some smart bombs,
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| but there was some dumb ones as well,
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| scared the hell out of CNN in that Baghdad hotel.
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| The Military and the Monetary,
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| they get together whenever they think its necessary,
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| War in the desert sometimes sure is scary,
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| but they beamed out the war to all their subsidiaries.
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| Tried to make So Damn Insane a worthy adversary,
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| keeping the citizens secondary,
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| scaring old folks into coronaries.
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| The Military and the Monetary,
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| from thousands of miles in a Saudi Arabian sanctuary,
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| kept us all wondering if all of this was really truely, necessary.
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| We’ve got to work for Peace,
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| Peace ain’t coming this way.
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| If we only work for Peace,
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| If everyone believed in Peace the way they say they do,
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| we’d have Peace.
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| The only thing wrong with Peace,
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| is that you can’t make no money from it.
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| The Military and the Monetary,
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| they get together whenever they think its necessary,
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| they’ve turned our brothers and sisters into mercenaries,
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| they are turning the planet, into a cemetery.
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| Got to work for Peace,
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| Peace ain’t coming this way.
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| We should not allow ourselves to be mislead,
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| by talk of entering a time of Peace,
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| Peace is not the absence of war,
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| it is the absence of the rules of war and the threats of war and the
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| preparation for war.
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| Peace is not the absence of war,
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| it is the time when we will all bring ourselves closer to each other,
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| closer to building a structure that is unique within ourselves
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| because we have finally come to Peace within ourselves.
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| The Military and the Monetary,
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| The Military and the Monetary,
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| The Military and the Monetary.
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| Get together whenever they think its necessary,
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| they’ve turned our brothers and sisters into mercenaries,
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| they are turning parts of the planet, into a cemetery.
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| The Military and the Monetary,
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| The Military and the Monetary,
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| We hounded the Ayatollah religiously,
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| Bombed Libya and killed Quadafi’s son hideously.
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| We turned our back on our allies the Panamanians,
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| and saw Ollie North selling guns to the Iranians.
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| Watched Gorbachev slaughtering Lithuanians,
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| We better warn the Amish,
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| they may bomb the Pennsylvanians.
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| The Military and the Monetary,
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| get together whenever they think its necessary,
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| they have turned our brothers and sisters into mercenaries,
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| they are turning the planet, into a cemetery.
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| I don’t want to sound like no late night commercial,
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| but its a matter of fact that there are thousands of children all over the world
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| in Asia and Africa and in South America who need our help.
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| When they start talking about 55 cents a day and 70 cents a day,
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| I know a lot of folks feel as though that,
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| thats not really any kind of contribution to make,
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| but we had to give up a dollar and a half just to get in the subway nowadays.
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| So this is a song about tommorrow and about how tommorrow can be better.
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| if we all,
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| «Each one reach one, Each one try to teach one».
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| Nobody can do everything,
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| but everybody can do something,
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| everyone must play a part,
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| everyone got to go to work, Work for Peace.
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| Spirit Say Work, Work for Peace
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| If you believe the things you say, go to work.
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| If you believe in Peace, time to go to work.
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| Cant be wavin your head no more, go to work. |