Body of War Songs That Inspired an Iraq War Veteran movie - Let Them Eat War lyrics

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Song by Bad Religion<br /><br>

There's a prophet on a mountain and he's making up dinner <br>

With long division and writing crop <br>

Anybody can feel like a winner <br>

When it's served up piping hot <br>

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But the people aren't looking for a handout <br>

They're America's working corps <br>

Can this be what they voted for? <br>

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Let them eat war [x2] <br>

That's how to ration the poor <br>

Let them eat war [x2] <br>

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There's an urgent need to feed <br>

Declining pride <br>

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From the force to the union shops <br>

The war economy is making new jobs <br>

But the people who benefit most <br>

Are breaking bread with their benevolent hosts <br>

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Who never stole from the rich to give to the poor <br>

All they ever gave to them was a war <br>

And a foreign enemy to deplore <br>

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Let them eat war [x2] <br>

That's how to ration the poor <br>

Let them eat war [x2] <br>

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There's an urgent need to feed <br>

Declining pride <br>

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We've got to kill 'em and eat 'em <br>

Before they reach for their checks <br>

Squeeze some blue collars <br>

Let them bleed from their necks <br>

Seize a few dollars from the people who sweat <br>

Cause it's freedom or death and they won't question it <br>

At a job site the boss is god like <br>

Conditioned workhorses park at a stoplight <br>

Seasoned vets with their feet in nets <br>

A stones throw away from a rock fight <br>

But not tonight, feed ‘em death <br>

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Here comes another ration (feed them death) <br>

Cause they're the finest in the nation (feed them death) <br>

When there's nothing left to feed them <br>

When it's freedom or it's death <br>

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Let them eat war [x2] <br>

That's how to ration the poor <br>

Let them eat war [x2] <br>

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There's an urgent need to feed<br>

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