(Note: Sing the chorus whenever asterisks appear.) Earth's population is getting out of hand, so *We're planning a war in space! We've got to keep 'em in control and under our command, so * Ever since we found the atom could be split and used to kill, We know if we don't build the bombs, some other bastards will, And we know because we spy upon them all from Menwith Hill, * The Air Force and the Pentagon are willing, come on...* Too much damn democracy is chilling, so * The ignorant taxpayers don't know what they have in store, The powerful among us always want a whole lot more, Dominance and capital are what we're fighting for, so * To hell with the Space Peace Treaty, * We'll fight Koreans, Iranians and Iraqis, so * We can spend 6 billion in the blinking of an eye, And never have to see the children as they drop and die, We'll really pulverize 'em from our platform in the sky, * We pledge allegiance to the country we love best And to the ruling corporations. Hail Microsoft, Boeing, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin's Greater GNP than many struggling nations! (Where do you stand? Where do you stand? Tell me who ya' love! x 3) Stop being wussies for the Brotherhood of Man, * Why do we do it? We do it 'cause we can, * We've got the right-wing Congress groveling down upon its knees, We want another billion, Mr. Secretary, please, So what if Russia and if China know they're in a squeeze? * We miss the Gipper so damn much, * Thanks to Clinton, Star Wars threats abound though Gipper's out-of-touch, and * We'll rule the earth from heaven with our lasers aimed below, With Echelon and satellites there's nothing we won't know! They'll do just what we tell 'em or up in flames they'll go, * For Aerojet, Hughes Space and TRW, * For Lockheed Martin, for Boeing and for NASA, * We won't be free of CEOs when ruling from the skies. The money-hungry shareholders have profits in their eyes. They fire the whistleblowers when someone falsifies, * Nobody does it like the country we love best For the ruling corporations... Calling out the SWAT teams and the riot police to guard 'em From protestors at peaceful demonstrations! (Who do ya' love? Who do ya' love? Tell me where you stand ! x3) We're talking irreversible denial, * With Full Spectrum Dominance our style, * NRO demands a Space Force, ISR, EELV, SBIRS, & SPL, & NAVWAR TMP, The GPS is ready, we don't want CTBT! * We're working with 3rd rate science, * For Nuke-Based Laser reliance, * The Demonstrator's on its way though problems may be rife, The Interceptors miss and can't be counted on in strife, But what the hell, just fake the tests and have a job for life! * We abrogate the ABM Treaty, because * Who cares if the world is needy * We need 100 billion for our anti-missile base, And Bush is happy to continue putting it in place. So what if we obliterate the whole human race? We're planning a war! (What're we fighting for?) We're planning a War in Space! © Holly Gwinn Graham 2000
NO Space Wars is a benefit CD produced for the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, 2002.
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