Finally got to Washington in the middle of the night   I couldn't wait   I headed straight for the Capitol Mall    My heart began to pound   Yahoo! It really exists   The American International Pictures logo       I looked up at that Capitol Building   Couldn't help but wonder why   I felt like saying "Hello, old friend"       Walked up the hill to touch it   Then I unzipped my pants   And pissed on it when nobody was looking       Like a great eternal Klansman   With his two flashing red eyes   Turn around he's always watching   The Washington Monument pricks the sky   With flags like pubic hair ringed 'round the bottom       The symbols of our heritage   Lit up proudly in the night   Somehow fits to see the homeless people   Passed out on the lawn       So this is where it happens   The power games and bribes   All lobbying for a piece of ass       Of the stars and stripes of corruption       Makes me feel so ashamed   To be an American   When we're too stuck up to learn from our mistakes   Trying to start another Viet Nam   Whilke fiddling while Rome burns at home   The Boss says, "You're laid off, blame the Japanese"    "America's back," alright   At the game it plays the worst   Strip mining the world like a slave plantation       No wonder others hate us   And the Hitlers we handpick   To bleed their people dry   For our evil empire       The drug we're fed   To make us like it   Is God and country with a band?       People we know who should know better   Howl, "America riles. Let's go to war!"   Business scams are what's worth dying for       Are the Soviets our worst enemy?   We're destroying ourselves instead   Who cares about our civil rights   As long as I get paid?       The blind Me-Generation   Doesn't care if life's a lie       So easily used, so proud to enforce    The stars and stripes of corruption       Let's bring it all down!    Let's bring it all down!    Let's bring it all down!       Tell me who's the real patriots    The Archie Bunker slobs waving flags?    Or the people with the guts to work    For some real change       Rednecks and bombs don't make us strong   We loot the world    Yet we can't even feed ourselves   Our real test of strength is caring   Not the toys of war we sell the world    Just carry on, thankful to be farmed like worms   Old glory for a blanket   As you suck on your thumbs       Real freedom scares you   'Cause it means responsibility       So you chicken out and threaten me       Saying, "Love it or leave it"   I'll get beat up if I criticize it   You say you'll fight to the death   To save your useless flag       If you want a banana republic that bad   Why don't you go move to one      But what can just one of us do?   Against all that money and power   Trying to crush us into roaches?       We won't destroy society in a day   Until we change ourselves first   From the inside out       We can start by not lying so much   And treating other people like dirt   It's easy not to base our lives   On how much we can scam       You know it feels good to lift that monkey off our backs       I'm thankful I live in a place   Where I can say the things I do   Without being taken out and shot   So I'm on guard against the goons   Trying to take my rights away   We've got to rise above the need for cops and laws       Let kids learn communication   Instead of schools pushing competition   How about more art and theaters instead of sports?       People will always do drugs   Let's legalize them   Crime drops when the mob can't price them   Budget's in the red?   Let's tax religion       No one will do it for us   We'll just have to fix ourselves   Honesty ain't all that hard   Just put Rambo back inside your pants   Causing trouble for the system is much more fun       Thanks for the toilet paper   Your flag is meaningless to me   Look around, we're all people   Who needs countries anyway?       Our land, I love it too   I think I love it more than you   I care enough to fight       The stars and stripes of corruption       Let's bring it all down!    If we don't try   If we just lie   If we can't find   A way to do it better than this   Who will?