"Stick The Fucking Flag Up Your Goddam Ass, You Sonofabitch" lyrics - PROPAGANDHI

PROPAGANDHI
"Stick The Fucking Flag Up Your Goddam Ass, You Sonofabitch"

My father told me "Son, it's futile to resist
You can topple ideologies but not the armies they enlist"
I questioned the intentions of the boy scouts chanting war
"Well, that's the sound of freedom, son," he said, "free to say no more"

But wait a minute, Dad
Did you actually say freedom?
Well, if you're dumb enough to vote
You're fucking dumb enough to believe 'em

'Cause if this country is so goddamn free
Then I can burn your fucking flag wherever I damn well please
And then I'm gonna stick it up your fucking ass!

I carried their anthem, convinced it was mine
Rhyme-less, unreasoned conjecture kept me in line
But then I stood back and wondered, what the fuck had they done to me?
Made accomplice to all that I'd promised I would never fucking be

Never be

You carry their anthem convinced that it's yours
Invitation to honor, invitation to war
Bette Midler now assumes sainthood, romanticize murder for morale
Tie a yellow ribbon round the oak tree my friend and "Gee Wally, that's swell"

Fuck the troops to hell