This song is about how the United States Government is taking control over all the people and abolishes all rights they have. The title comes from the first three words of the United States Constitution, which is supposed to protect US citizens against the government.
[Verse 1]
Secret bureaucracy, it's just a lie
The devil's henchmen, in suit and tie
A sacred brotherhood, an ancient rite
Politicians and the double lives they hide
[Chorus]
Violate your rights, no more equality
Surrender freedom, your Social Security
We the people face unconstitutional lies
In greed we trust, in revolution we die
[Verse 2]
Our founding fathers are rolling in their graves
The land of liberty needs a regime change
Until you no longer know right from wrong
The constitution isn't worth the paper it's written on
[Chorus]
Violate your rights, no more equality
Surrender freedom, your Social Security
We the people face unconstitutional lies
In greed we trust, in revolution we die
[Post-Chorus]
In revolution we die
[Bridge]
Screams from the future, warn of calamity
The coming plagues of the new disease
The Illuminati, one world currency
One world religion, one World everything
[Chorus]
Violate your rights, no more equality
Surrender freedom, your Social Security
We the people face unconstitutional lies
In greed we trust, in revolution we die
[Outro]
We the people face unconstitutional lies
In greed we trust, in revolution we die
We the people face unconstitutional lies
In greed we trust, in revolution we die...
We the People was written by Dave Mustaine & Johnny K.
We the People was produced by Johnny K & Dave Mustaine.
Megadeth released We the People on Tue Nov 01 2011.
David Ellefson:
This song is like riff-mania. Dave has a great ability to write a fantastic array of riffs, and he’s a master at compiling them to create a song. He writes a riff, then he writes another riff, and when you think he can’t come up with another one, he does so – and then he puts them a...