On Empire Songtext
von Frog Legs

(Kwame Ture speaking)
"Said I′m with you
The man said this is most irrational I said lemme tell you something
If I'm the Imam of Mecca and American imperialism is fighting with the devil
I′m on the side of the devil!"

When those planes hit New York
It unlocked something we haven't seen
In three hundred years, no maybe thirty
It's hard to keep track of the atrocities
That make up my ancestry
Colonies and slavery
Bloodlust burned into the hearts of so called gentle people


That′s why my tax dollars go to hospital bombings
I′ll wake up to nightmares in just three years
Of American flags flying over the Gaza Strip mall
Buy what you want with someone else's tears
Who says I should pay for that?
Cuz I don′t want it anyway
Who says you should pay for that?
You don't want it anyway

When settlers landed on American shores
It unveiled greed never before seen
And it worked so well for God and country
They forced it on every other human being
They thought they′d get the rewards
By opening those brutal doors
All they left with was ennui
What's so different now tell me?


Cuz my tax dollars go to hospital bombings
I wake up to nightmares of centuries
Of native peoples slaughtered for my comfort
And I still live like shit!
My tax dollars go to hospital bombings
I′ll wake up to nightmares in just three years
Of American flags flying over the Gaza Strip mall
Buy what you want in the new Trail of Tears
And who says I should pay for that?
Cuz I don't want it anyway
Who says you should pay for that?
No you don't want it anyway

And who tells me that it′s not absurd
That my taxes go to slaughter in the name of fucking real estate?
The empire makes us pay for that
The empire makes us pay for that