Well I often walk down to the pub in springtime   To take the summer breeze and drink with friends   But on the 12th day of September, I went down there   To the derision of all muslims and Afghans      Being assaulted here in neighborhoods around me   Personally and in their jobs and schools and homes   And the barfly's said we should send 'em all back overseas   Well, will you be the one to pay for their plane fare home?      Well their women must come over here for sanctuary's sake   Being the victims of honor killings still permissable in numerous states   By fanatical law a shamed husband can gun 'em down you see   When it's affirmed by family and state then they have no where to flee       Well we should wipe 'em off the fuckin' map, they tell me   Cause we don't know when or where they will strike next   But I say we don't know their custom or what's happened there   Being Americans we've been veiled from that text      Well, it's easier to manipulate a leader who needs food and guns   So we've promoted chaos over there all along   To not have to deal with an independent stable oil power   Who don't need us or could tell us so long       And every time there's a faction with potential to outsell   We profiteer 'em full of guns and missiles and so go out and kill   We supported Iran and Iraq and Afghanistan, oh dread   Kids with guns starving to death if they get near you, you're dead       Oh take me away o'er the country side   With no natural resource or bombs or peering eyes   Away from the double standards practiced on both sides   Oh please, my noble statesmen make this over       We've empowered leaders who've industrialized and overpopulated the towns   Who steal their tax money as most jobs are taken now run by machines   Our sale of food and aid get   sanctioned if they don't sell oil cheap   We starve 'em for their resource yeah we have 'em on their knees       Well Israel's a source that does keep Arabs fighting   So we've consistently vetoed their division in UN plans   And we never sanction or exclude Israel outright   Despite atrocities performed by their own hands       And SUVs keep CEOs happy 'cause they're a status symbol and everyone buys   And they burn a lot more fuel so the oil industry's happy as flies   On a shit that pollutes the air much worse then regular autos will   And they'll keep this industry funded no matter who must be killed       Oh take me away o'er the country side   With no natural resource or bombs or peering eyes   Away from the double standards practiced on both sides   Oh please, my noble statesmen make this over       We sent soldiers and weapons to the Afghanis to fight the occupying Russians   To ensure an alliance and insure their trade for oil   And the communists fell anyway and we split breaking promises   Of aid and rebuilding and governance and left them fighting off warlords in turmoil       And they watched as we incinerated their brothers and sisters   In Iraq now they think our policies unfair   And that we condescend and meddle in their governments and destroy them   They think oil's the only reason why we're there       Instead of having a foreign policy for policing others and in defense   We should define it by what we're for rather than what we're against   What the perpetrators did is punishable and clearly shows to us   That you can't subjugate others to your will by violence and mistrust      Oh take me away o'er the country side   With no natural resource or bombs or peering eyes   Away from the double standards practiced on both sides   Oh please, my noble statesmen make this over