Original Song #22: "Untermenschen"

And it all started somewhere in the bowels of the White House
Back in May two-thousand-and-one
Dick Cheney and the boys in the energy industry
Carving up a map of Iraq
Scheming war and oil and Halliburton contracts

And the voices they came shouting out
From the underground
As Billmon said:

Untermenschen, Untermenschen!
If you read between the lies
They’re always fighting for the big guy
Untermenschen, Untermenschen!
You can see it in their eyes
Either shut up or take their side

Then it got heavy on eleven September
We don’t know if they let it happen or not
But they used it as a scapegoat
Just as the neo-cons had always hoped
For another Pearl Harbor
Enter Patriot Act and the War President

And the voices they came shouting out
From the underground
As Juan Cole said:

Untermenschen, Untermenschen!
You can see it in their eyes
Either shut up or take their side
Untermenschen, Untermenschen!
If you read between the lies
A new group of brownshirts is on the rise

And it all unraveled rather spectacularly
At Abu Ghraib and Fallujah
And Ramadi and New Orleans
All the anger they unbridled
All the bloodshed they provided
All the pandering to xenophobes
To the Fundies and the faithful
Who declared to the whole world
They’re just rag-heads
They’re not people
They’re our enemies
They’ve got no souls

And the voices they keep shouting out
From the underground
And they nail it

Untermenschen, Untermenschen!
Better not speak your mind
They’re listening in on your phone line
Untermenschen, Untermenschen!
Yeah you heard him right
The president said our enemies have no souls
The president said they ain’t got no soul
The president thinks you ain’t got no soul

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