......... to the teeth.........
the sun is setting on the century
and we are armed to the teeth

we're all working together now
to make our lives mercifully brief

schoolkids keep trying to teach us
what guns are all about

confuse liberty with weaponry
and watch your kids act it out

every year now like christmas
some boy gets the milkfed suburban blues

reaches for the available arsenal
and saunters off to make the news

and the women in the middle
are learning what poor women have always known

that the edge is closer than you think
when your men bring the guns home

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look at where the profits are
that's how you'll find the source

of the big lie that you and i
both know so well

in the time it takes this cultural
death wish to run its course

they're gonna make a pretty penny
and then they're all going to hell

he said the chickens all come home to roost
yeah malcolm forecasted this flood

are we really gonna sleep through another century
while the rich profit off our blood?

true it may take some doing
to see this undoing through

but in my humble opinion
here's what i suggest we do

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open fire on hollywood
open fire on MTV
open fire on NBC
and CBS and ABC
open fire on the NRA
and all the lies they told us
along the way
open fire on each weapons manufacturer
while he's giving head
to some republican senator

and if i hear one more time
about a fool's right
to his tool of rage

i'm gonna take all my friends
and i'm gonna move to canada

and we're gonna die of old age -ani difranco, 1999