World Burns To Death - Apparatus lyrics

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Saigon, Vietnam 1963<br />

Elderly Buddhist monk sets himself ablaze<br />

Suicide as protest to the Diem regime<br />

Complicit in U.S./French hegemony<br />

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D.C., Pentagon 1965<br />

32 year old pacifist, father of three<br />

Douses himself with gallons of kerosene<br />

Under the window of McNamara<br />

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Detroit, Michigan 1965<br />

82 year old woman burns herself to death<br />

Despondent with the horrors of the war in Indochina<br />

Charred bones thrown into the cogs of Apparatus<br />

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With great guns and reater hate<br />

This beast thought itself equal to the force of life<br />

Some say Apparatus cannot be stopped<br />

Some say Apparatus cannot be stopped<br />

Some say Apparatus cannot be stopped<br />

One swallows dry and takes a chance<br />

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Defeat of the global American Empire<br />

By a revolution of peasants abroad<br />

And astonishing protest at home<br />

'War is the health of the state'<br />

And this Apparatus hungers for flesh<br />

Those who threw themselves into that machine<br />

Slippery with foam and blood<br />

Choking the hangman with noose drawn taut<br />

Made the gallows as holy as the cross<br />

Some say Apparatus cannot be stopped<br />

But one swallows dry and takes a chance.