With confidence in our armed forces With the unbounding determination of our people We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God More wars on foreign shores More names for us to mourn To misguide the misinformed To ignore the sick and poor Thus we praise the lords of war On our knees and beg for more A fresh poison for the weak Filthy little beasts Bred to conform It’s the dwarfed souls of greedy men Feculent, arrogant That shackles our young to the cold concrete And empty their guns in their bodies They scream I’m not guilty They scream I’m not guilty But cowards hear only what they fear Shoot until the threat stops I’d rather be in battle than at peace I’d rather be a wolf than a sheep I’d rather be in battle than slaughtered like cattle The weak can sleep while I scream I’d rather be in battle than at peace I’d rather be a wolf than a sheep I’d rather be in battle than slaughtered like cattle The weak can sleep while I scream You were born to be led That’s what religion says With a bifurcated tongue America eats its young Bullet-toothed empty gods Paralyze the minds and congest the thoughts With devils everywhere Bombs bursting in the air Drones flown over thrones Of bone and brimstone Sabers rattle in the homes Of the cowards and the crones As they shackle our young Blood stains the streets Pigs empty their guns in their bodies They scream I’m not guilty They scream I’m not guilty But cowards hear only what they fear Shoot until the threat stops I’d rather be in battle than at peace I’d rather be a wolf than a sheep I’d rather be in battle than slaughtered like cattle The weak can sleep while I scream I’d rather be in battle than at peace I’d rather be a wolf than a sheep I’d rather be in battle than slaughtered like cattle The weak can sleep while I scream Bow down to the lords of war On your knees for the lords of war Bow down to the lords of war On your knees for the lords of war We rise in defiance We won’t remain silent To triumph over tyrants And police violence Shoot until the threat stops We rise in defiance We won’t remain silent To triumph over tyrants And police violence Shoot until the threat stops We’re not guilty We’re not We’re not guilty We’re not Help us God The weak can scream while we scream I’d rather be in battle than at peace I’d rather be a wolf than a sheep I’d rather be in battle than slaughtered like cattle The weak can sleep while I scream I’d rather be in battle than at peace I’d rather be a wolf than a sheep I’d rather be in battle than slaughtered like cattle The weak can sleep while I scream The lords of war On your knees for the lords of war Bow down to the lords of war