81 billion beats the soldier's drum Price of living too high to overcome Politician preaching that war's the only way While another bum dies in the streets of L.A It's all a lie unjustified It's all for black gold k**ing Christian, k**ing Hebrew k**ing m**m, Buddhist and Hindu You can't take life So sayth the holy books that you read Manipulated minds Serving prophets of greed It's all a lie unjustified It's all for black gold
And another one dies unjustified We're selling our souls Woe to the beggars catching pity in their hands While the rich feast on the blood media Broadcast across the land And somewhere there's a child in a distant house Feeling only what children know Fed from a cauldron of hate Grows to deliver a badly blow It's all a lie unjustified And another one dies unjustified We're all terrorized and horrified All for black gold