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Culture as Given Lyrics by Smoke Or Fire

Above the City

2005

If you could see the women and children
The people we've all laid to rest
If you could bomb a city the size of Chicago here
Tell me where is your conscience now?
Destroy and rebuild, a campaign of contracts
The shifting of power, deceit and lies
You call it the ideal of promoting democracy
I call it a franchise
Are you the person they sent to save me?
'Cause I don't want to be saved
Killing is easy when you don't see faces
And you don't have to dig graves
Culture as given, the American ideal
But that's only one way to live your lives
There's no one there to help you when they start the bidding
You're packaged and sold to the allies
You broke down
When you believed a single word that self-motivated politician said
You broke down
And when it's all over we're left with the mess
Are you the person they sent to save me?
'Cause I don't want to be saved
Killing is easy when you don't see faces
And you don't have to dig graves
You broke down
When you believed in this war
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Smoke Or Fire

Smoke Or Fire

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"Culture as Given" appears on "Above the City" in 2005.

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