Sad History of the World

[Intro: JFK]
Ladies and Gentlemen
The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society
And we are as a people, inherently and historically, opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings
For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. No secret is revealed

[Verse 1]
We always catch on late
After we hurt the ones who care
And then we cry for ages
Yet we never learn to share
The teachings of our fallen heroes
To those who are different
We just repeat this deadly cycle
We've become abhorrent

[Verse 2]
This is it, this is how we sealed our fate
By our hate, by our choice to discriminate
Every messenger we shall incriminate
We bleed the freak
And then suffer from our mistake

[Chorus]
What we need is some faith and discipline
We need to wash all this
Innocent blood off our skin
Assess the ignorance
He secrets, the lies, and the sin
Reflect on errors of the past
And let a future begin

We are monkeys with ammo
Nothing advanced more
We are a needy fucking species
We are dogs of war

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
Jesus Christ and Pontius Pilate
Martin Luther King and the L.A. riots
This is the sad history of the world
The people that we hate
The we kill, never learn
Hitler, Bush, Napoleon
Adam and Eve and the original sin
Lessons lost in time; hatred reoccurs
The sound of scraping metal
The earth can barely turn
Hiroshima and Vietnam
Albert Einstein's atomic bomb
The suffering still continues and always will
Until the end of time
Why do we expel the ones that could save us?
Maybe it's time that we shut up and listen

[Excerpts from Martin Luther King's "I've been to the Mountaintop speech]
We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now. I just want to do God's will. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man! Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!!
But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!

[Chorus]

Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy
A fatal shot to democracy
This is the sad history of the world
The people that we hate
The we kill, never learn
Area 51, cancer and AIDS
The Holocaust and the Crusades
Lessons lost in time; hatred reoccurs
The sound of scraping metal
The earth can barely turn
The truth is buried
We kill what we don't understand
Maybe it's time to expand our feeble minds