Mother Superior

How ready are you
 To die for an ideal?
 What's the connection
 Between a lie and what is real?
 Mother Superior
 I've got an angel on my back
 I'm one of the righteous
 And I'm never going back
 No, no, no
 I'm never going back
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 Who's that shining forth-right man
 About to die behind me?
 He's waiting for the portress to
 Send me head over heels
 Who's that black-heart four-star
 General walking up the hill?
 To ask the liberals nicely
 To help, finance his private war
 And if I didn't trust that man
 When he puts the rifle in your hand
 Sings you songs of pageantry and grace
 And how much you want to bet
 On the other side
 There's a man with twice your pride
 And they put you feet first in an
 Unmarked grave
 There was a time in our history
 When we justified by saying
 Our destinies manifest
 Now imperialism is the mantra
 Of the west
 See that trigger happy
 College boys, love a chance
 To try out their new toys
 Then they wash the city streets
 Clean, with the blood of infidels
 And if I didn't trust that man
 When he puts the rifle in your hand
 Sings you songs of pageantry and grace
 And how much you want to bet
 On the other side
 There's a man with twice your pride
 And they put you feet first in an
 Unmarked grave
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 As the fabric of democracy
 Lay tattered in the dust
 We could put, another greedy man
 Into the dictatorial
 Puppet-show, now
 Tell me, who do you trust
 Who do you trust?
 In a volatile hemisphere
 We'll perpetuate a hostile
 Atmosphere
 Call it a threat
 To national security
 Call it just a poor-sick face
 One more place
 To export cheap labor
 Hail the monarchy
 Hail the oligarchy
 A potential for anarchy
 And we pat ourselves
 Firmly on the back