Behind Enemy Lines - Retribution lyrics

We've annihilated a nation now the retribution begins Each day claims a life and a half dozen limbs Violent backlash The postwar fallout has turned into a bloodbath Occupation not liberation Nation building has been paved over by desperation Trapped in this quagmire American brutality throwing fuel on the fire A sea of blood floods the occupied land While the village idiot plays war in the sand In the presidential sandbox he's out of harm's way Protected by the privilege that allows him to play That's shielded him from danger and still hides his desertion And demands that those less privileged shoulder his burden He'll sacrifice your life to provide his with privilege Using his little toy soldiers as political leverage he's got his bombs in the air and his pawns in a row And thousands of broken toys buried six feet below Retribution His ignorant arrogance is being paid for with lives Of the thousands of soldiers who fell for his lies He's annihilated a nation now the retribution begins Each day claims a life and a half dozen libs He's sown the seeds for more hate and distrust He's justified their contempt for us "The Christian crusader" taking on the gutter religion In the name of god he's murdered their children He's a warmongering coward who's got blood on his hands He sent his toys thousands of miles to draw a line in the sand Now there's thousands of lines all illustrated in chalk Slaughtered and maimed in what they were told would be a cakewalk Retribution His ignorant arrogance is being paid for with lives Of the thousands of soldiers who fell for his lies He's annihilated a nation now the retribution begins Each day claims a life and a half dozen limbs He claims to be fighting the war against terror and winning But we haven't' seen anything yet this is just the beginning He invaded their land for alleged terrorist involvement Now that land's become a breeding ground for actual Recruitment Where they're kidnapping foreigners and cutting off heads This is the extremism that our brutality's bred This is Bush's idea of making us safer Escalating the violence and inviting more danger Our presence in the middle east will always be resented and hated Those occupied aren't so easily placated They see first hand the brutality and abuse They don't have the situation spoon-fed to them by corporate news They hear the cries of their children after we've severed their limbs They see American soldiers torturing and k**ing civilians How do we apologize to these children that we mutilated in error? If we had to look in their eyes would we be able to look in the mirror? Retribution His ignorant arrogance is being paid for with lives Of the thousands of soldiers who fell for his lies He's annihilated a nation now the retribution begins Each day claims a life and a half dozen limbs