Ani Difranco - TO THE TEETH lyrics

rate me

The sun is settin on the century

And we are armed to the teeth

We are all working together now

To make our lives mercifully brief

Schoolkids keep trying to teach us

What guns are all about

Confuse liberty with weaponry

And watch your kids act it out

Every year now like Christmas

Some boy gets the mildfed surburban blues

Reaches for the avaliable aresenal

And saunters off to make the news

And women in the middle

Are learning what poor women have always known

That the edge is closer than you think

When your men bring the guns home

Look at where the profits are

That's how you'll find the source

Of the big lie that you and i

Both know so well

It the time it takes this cultural

Death wish to run its course

They're gonna make a pretty penny

And then they're all going to hell

He said the chickens all come home to roost

Yeah, malcom forecasted this flood

Are we really gonna sleep through another century

While the rich profir off our blood?

True, it may take some doing

To see this undoing done

But in my humble opinion

Here's what I suggest we do:

Open fire on hollywood

Open fire on MTV

Open fire on NBC

And CBS and ABC

Open fire on the NRA

And all the lies they told us

Along the way

Open fire on each weapons manufacturer

While he's giving head

To some republician senator

And if I hear one more time

About fool's rights

To his tools of rage

I'm gonna take all my friends

And I'm gonna move to canada

And we're gonna die of old age