This was running through my head the whole time I watched the speech, especially the bolded section: Here's to the Bush administration Within its dirty corridors, the devil draws no lines If you search his flunkies' closets, nameless bodies you will find And the men who do his bidding have hid a thousand crimes The calendar is lying when it reads the present time Oh, here's to the land you've torn out the heart of Mister Bush, find yourself another country to be a part of. And here's to the people who support him. Who say his million critics, they just don't understand And they tremble and burn beneath the government's cruel brand They smile and shrug their shoulders at the torture of a man The sweating of their souls can't wash the blood from off their hands Oh here's to the land you've torn out the heart of Mister Bush, find yourself another country to be a part of. And here's to the schools that Mister Bush built Where they're teaching all the children that they don't have to care All the rudiments of ignorance are present everywhere And every single classroom is a factory of despair And none of them will learn to thinkāin darkness do we share Oh, here's to the land you've torn out the heart of Mister Bush, find yourself another country to be a part of. And here's to the president's enforcers Who imprison private citizens while saying we're at war Making us secure by kicking freedom to the floor They undermine our country, they are poisoned to the core Behind their broken badges there are murderers and more Oh here's to the land you've torn out the heart of Mister Bush, find yourself another country to be a part of. And here's to the judges of his tribunals Who wear their robes of honor as they crawl into the court They're guarding all the bastions of his phony legal fort Oh, justice is a stranger when the prisoners report When a foreigner's accused, the trial is always short Oh, here's to the land you've torn out the heart of Mister Bush, find yourself another country to be a part of. And here's to the shadow of 9/11 Where congress passed an act in the panic of the day And the constitution's gang-raped while its principles decay Free speech makes me a terrorist, I've even heard them say Yes, spreading fear to stay in power is our noble leader's way Oh, here's to the land you've torn out the heart of Mister Bush, find yourself another country to be a part of. And here's to the government that's under him In the swamp of its bureaucracy it's always bogging down And criminals are posing as advisors to the crown And they hope that no one sees the sights and no one hears the sounds And the speeches of our leader are the ravings of a clown Oh, here's to the land you've torn out the heart of Mister Bush, find yourself another country to be a part of. And here's to the temple of his ego Where the cross once made of silver now is caked with rust And the Sunday morning sermons pander to his lust The fallen face of Jesus is choking in the dust Heaven only knows in which god he can trust Oh, here's to the land you've torn out the heart of Mister Bush, find yourself another country to be a part of.
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