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The Happiest Place On Earth

from Read Music​/​Speak Spanish by Desaparecidos

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from Read Music​/​Speak Spanish, released February 11, 2002
I want to pledge allegiance to the country where I live
I don't want to be ashamed to be American
But opportunity, no it don't exist
It's the opiate of the populace
We need some harder shit now,
the truth is getting around,
and each public school is a halfway house
Where the huddled masses sober up and up

Enough?
There's not enough to fatten the cows and feed all of us
It's just a rationing of luck

What can't be bought gets raffled off
Oh God, good God shed greed on thee,
your shining sea turned a dirty green
from the industry off the shores of New Jersey

I got a letter from the Army so I think that I'll enlist
I'm not brave or proud of nothing, I just want to kill something
Too bad that nowadays you just point and click
Swing Lo satellite, hot white chariot!
In the computer's blue glare, the bombs burst in the air
There was a city once, now nothing is there

Our freedom comes at their expense
It makes sense, does it?
Dollars and cents
They're stretching barbed wire across the picket fence
that is surrounding your housing development
Just in case you lack the confidence

Oh God, my God, give strength to thee,
these amber waves, purple majesty,
are nothing but backdrops for Disney

Well look up close
It is superimposed, on a blank blue screen
It is fantasy, fucking magical

The dream floats
like a chemical
through each snapped synapse. Our television past
that is beautiful no more
No more.

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