Alexipharmic - Blueprint Of A Terrorist lyrics

rate me

April twenty-eighth, 1945

I've got to steal chicken, eggs, and bread to keep my family alive

In Al Awja I thrive, raised in slums of the slums

While the bourgeoisie were feasting I was feeding off crumbs

There's no sense 8 years old, the world placed on your shoulders

A child nobody noticed, just Atlas holding boulders

Dad left me at birth, step-dad beats me near death

I'll get back at him yet if I've got any life left

1947 - moved in with my uncle

And while living is better, I can already sense trouble

But who really cares when you're spit on your whole life?

Witness to my countrymen cut by the knife

I'm learning to read and write, Kayrallah's taught me politics

How Britain supplied weapons to kill us are now hidin this

I'll have my revenge, it's just a matter of time

Til I speak out on actions and head to the front of the line

Everybody has a cause, but aren't willing to fight for it

I'm working til I'm lost, and I'm willing to die for it

Avenge atrocities of the past, I'm forfeiting rights for it

I'm just a product of all I've seen, and I'm giving my life for it

Successive, successful assassinations placed me in the right army

Where I'm second in command after joining the Ba'ath party

Being shot at and exiled, in control of it all

The forefront of Arab worlds, uniting all or downfall

1980, in command, given weapons from United States

To gas Iranian insurgent rebels I've grown to hate

After 8 years it's peace, but now my country is broken

But the US is attackin - puncture wounds already open

I'm going insane, everybody is my enemy

I've killed off all who abandoned me, murdered my pedigree

I live in hell you see, fear, any day they will slaughter me

And now my destiny's a lie, I've become the hypocrisy

I swore that I'd never be, there's no justification

For my actions that, over time, split my country to factions

Through all I've tried to do, it's remained the same, nothing's changed

I'm making sure history remembers ME, Saddam Hussein

Everybody has a cause, but aren't willing to fight for it

I'm working til I'm lost, and I'm willing to die for it

Avenge atrocities of the past, I'm forfeiting rights for it

I'm just a product of all I've seen, and I'm giving my life for it

The bombs have been falling for seven months, half my friends are now dead

100, 000 women and children eternally resting in bed

Dad and I have fled to a barrack near patrols

Hoping to avoid the bombings by living in fox holes

Why exactly does America want to murder me so fervently

Can't it all go back to the way that it used to be

In the calm before the storm - a shimmer of hope's

Quickly quelled by GI's storming towards that somehow we've provoked

Dad turned to me, grabbed my hand, told me to run

Then to make sure I could, he reached for his gun

But the race was now done, he was mowed in gunshots

Any promise for the future in that instant were lost

I held my dad in my arms, my tears dropped to the ground

It's 2005, the soldiers kick me while I'm down

I'll have my revenge, it's just a matter of time

Til I speak out on atrocities and head to the front lines

Everybody has a cause, but aren't willing to fight for it

I'm working til I'm lost, and I'm willing to die for it

Avenge atrocities of the past, I'm forfeiting rights for it

I'm just a product of all I've seen, and I'm giving my life for it