'Boom'
by System of a Down

I've been walking through your streets,
where all your money's earning,
where all your building's crying
and clueless neckties working.
Revolving fake lawn houses,
housing all your fears.
Desensitized by TV,
overbearing advertising.
God of consumerism,
and all your crooked pictures
looking good, mirrorism,
filtering information
for the public eye.
Designed for profiteering.
Your neighbor, what a guy.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Everytime you drop the bomb, you kill the God your child has born.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Modern globalization,
coupled with condemnation.
Unnecessary death.
Matador corporations,
puppeting your frustrations
with a blinded flag.
Manufacturing consent is the name of the game.
The bottom line is money, nobody gives a fuck!
4000 hungry children leave us per hour from starvation.
While billions are spent on bombs, creating death showers!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Everytime you drop the bomb, you kill the God your child has born.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Why must we kill all of our own kind?

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Everytime you drop the bomb, you kill the God your child has born.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Everytime you drop the BOMB!

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This song is about governments spending money on wars and things to help start and further wars when the money could and should be spent on more useful things.

As the song points out, it is silly to have around 4000 children die daily of starvation as we're spending thousands and even millions of dollars on each of the missiles we're lobbing at school buildings and other soft targets that are mistaken for military targets.

I love this song, though, and the video, too. There is a great little cartoon in it.

But I digress. If you've never heard the song, do so now. Seriously. System of a Down is one of the few true punk bands anywhere near the public eye these days. Punk isn't a look, people. Elvis Costello is punk in my book. And speaking of him, look for something by him ASAP.

**NOTE - This post and all subsequent postings up until the 2/4/2006 post was posted just after midnight on 2/5/2006.**

-=The Prynce