Anti-flag - Start lyrics

Rats, monkeys, mice Teach 'em little tricks Stay far from creativity and from politics 'Cause the multinationals need A solid work force for their growing profit Margins will be wiped out at the source Conform to the status quo, set rules Hold your mind into their f**ing tool Reciting back their facts and numbers That don't make you smart There's much more to intelligence And thinking for yourself would be a start (Start) Yeah, it would be a start (Start) It would be a start (Start) Yeah, it would be a start (Start) Start Pledge allegiance to a flag Of which you're taught no history Not Mexico, Granada Panama or Middle East But they're just a mere fraction Of this country's shady past Skeletons locked in the closet And I doubt they'll be the last National interest defined for you But who's it really serve? Who's getting screwed? Reciting back their facts and numbers That don't make you smart There's much more to intelligence And thinking for yourself it would be a start (Start) Yeah, it would be a start (Start) It would be a start (Start) Yeah, it would be a start (Start) Start Your prison warden is your school Training you to be a social screw Stage a jailbreak, swim against the flow Show those motherf**ers what you know I feel like I am suffocating I feel my life depreciating I know their teachings are riddled With lies, distortions, sh** It k**s me knowing the ma**es Are so brainwashed by it, brainwashed by it, no