THE DISPOSABLE HEROES OF HIPHOPRISY - Satanic Reverses lyrics

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In the 1970's

The OPEC nations began to dominate

The world's oil economy

In the 1980's Japan became the world's

Number ONE ecomonic power

In 1989 the nations of Eastern Europe

Attempted to restructure

While in the United States civil rights have

Collapsed at the hands of fundamentalists

And national insecurity's at an all time high

Exxon and on and on and on

The ministers of double speak

New meaning of clean they

Tried to teach us

They staged the phoney shampoo of the

Valdez greases

Completely jheri curled the beaches

Pipe bomb for the NAACP

And a hit on Salman Rushdie

The Berlin Wall comes down and the U.S. cracks down

On illegal aliens

Ban the freedom of choice for those

Wanting abortion

And enforce capitol punishment

Twenty four hour radio ban

For indecency determined by the F.U.C.C.

Why are we so anesthetized to the lies

Because we do it in our own lives

We believe all the things that we want to hear

But then we also love to criticize

Bail-out the banks loan art to the churches

Satanic Reverses

In 1992 the European economic community will reform

In 1997 the city of Hong Kong will become a part

Of the People's Republic of China

In 1999, and this is no coincidence,

The nation of Panama will control it's own canal

While in the United States civil rights have

Collapsed at the hands of fundamentalists

And national insecurity's at an all time high

Helms said ban the photograph

Of the piss Christ

It's sacreligious not an art peice

While we all try to discern between

Our cup of tea and what we call obscenity

The house's legislation

Ripped the phoney foundation

Off what we thought inherent

Sent Joey to the Supreme Court

'Cause he made a statement

They called it desecration

Of the symbol that was meant to represent

The freedom of so called choice and dissent

They almost had me believing it

They were bleeding him

He said, "Burn baby, burn"

'Til the street samurai

Said to my face that

Any flag that's worth a shit

Was woven from fire in the first place.

Bail-out the banks loan art to the churches

Satanic Reverses