The Ballad of N.A.T.O.
The Tossers Lyrics

You say you’re telling me right now of how you think that it should be
You're trying to tell me what you think is right

By the hand of Democratic law and the hand of decency
You claim to be promoting democracy and decency

But, your raging, you won’t talk law to me or tell me any stand
But you're not really discussing the law or taking a stance

You’re pointing all the fingers but refuse to shake the hand
Instead, you're blaming others without acknowledging your role

Instead of sitting content in your ideals and your laws
Rather than being satisfied with your own beliefs and laws

You have to tell me what you see, cause I can't see a lot
You insist on sharing your perspective since I don't have the full picture

But I see how Democratic your law is when it’s revised and necessarily changed
You claim your laws are democratic but they can be easily revised or altered

The Irish were arrested without warrants because they were soldiers armed and estranged
You mention how the Irish were arrested without proper warrants for being armed soldiers

All’s fair in love and war then they were tried without jury
They were then subject to trial without a jury, as if it was normal under these conditions

The act said fear of jurors, death threats
The fear of jurors and death threats was cited as the reason for this unfair trial system

Also, no people could object to thee
Moreover, no one was allowed to object to this unjust system of trials

They were arrested under special laws and tried in diplock juries
The Irish were subject to special laws and tried under diplock juries

But, when asked by Amnesty or other countries
However, when asked by Amnesty or other countries

They were criminalized as terrorists
The Irish were labeled as terrorists

So you could ignore political talks and ignore political struggling
This was done to ignore political tensions and struggles

So you can hold onto your colony without political juggling
All to maintain your colony without engaging in diplomacy

So you sat firm and quiet in your country and morals and common law promoting
You remained steadfast in your country's morals and laws

But, Nationalists kept coming, bombs and people kept exploding
Nevertheless, nationalists continued to push back and use violence

The Somazas crushed Nicaragua, The Falklands, Angola and Nambia, South Africa
You reference the Somazas crushing various nations

They fought you tooth and nail, till they were crushed or you gave up
These nations fought back hard, but ultimately were crushed or had to give up

You’re not a Democracy, you're a Capitalist empire that colonizes weaker lands
You're called out for being a capitalist empire that colonizes weaker nations and not a true democracy

And taxes natural resource, oil, diamonds, copper exchanging hands
You're also criticized for exploiting these nations' natural resources for personal gain

You put in Democratic so called governments as heads of the state
You installed so-called democratic governments to legitimize your control over these nations

That are willing to adhere to your bidding and reap measly profits from their state
These puppet governments are willing to do your bidding in exchange for small profits for their nation

And you colonize them with phone companies, hotels, McDonalds and Nike plants
You further colonize these nations with large corporations and businesses

And erect military bases under the pretense of defense
You justify the presence of military bases as being for defense

But the truth is its defense from revolution, in case the poor rise up
The real reason for these military bases is to defend against revolution and uprisings from the poor

Against the governments you’ve helped to empower and make the final stop
These uprisings would be against the puppet governments you've installed and ultimately, you

Then you called them a communist menace and stage and attack from your own bases
To justify your actions, you deemed these uprisings to be part of a communist menace, and even attacked them from your own bases

Then the government death squads, ... , destroy their empty faces
You even resorted to government death squads to suppress uprisings, violently crushing any opposition

You sent embargoes on countries who don’t agree or finally do revolt
You also imposed embargoes on nations that disagreed with you or revolted

A free country can’t sell their natural resource on a global free market vote
You prevented free countries from selling their resources on the global market

The countries that sit in the N.A.T.O. seats are the same domineering five
The dominant nations that make up N.A.T.O. are the same five nations

And the butchers they empower keep the rest of the seats alive
These dominant nations keep the rest of the seats alive with the help of the corrupt puppet regimes they install

And the countries ostracized by embargo that form the rest of the world
The rest of the world includes nations that have been ostracized under embargoes

Were forced to form a non-aligned organization, a union, so they could be heard
These ostracized countries had to form a union to have their voices heard

You call this a free market and your system Democratic
You insist that your system is based on free market principles and is a democracy

But it’s now a taxing empire that sends its shots out dead sporadic
However, it's really an empire that heavily taxes other countries and frequently engages in violence

Well, you can take my contentment, my sense of security
You boldly claim that you can take away your subject's sense of contentment and security

You can beat me from head to toe, till I bleed
You can even beat them until they're bleeding from head to toe

You can starve me or freeze me because it's all the same to me
You can even starve or freeze them, because at least they know they'll be free

Because in my mind I know I want to be free
This desire for freedom is what ultimately separates you from them

You sent your psychologist to evaluate me and give a report to the paper to read
You even sent a psychologist to evaluate them and report back to the media

I’m more stable than he is - I'm beginning to see
Despite this evaluation, they realize they are more stable than the psychologist

In this frustration of war, it’s one purpose I see
The purpose of war becomes clearer in this frustrating situation

I know of your tactics to break people like me
They're aware of your tactics to break people like them

Separate love forever, I’m refused being seen
You've even tried to separate them from their loved ones and refuse to acknowledge them

In the maze of our memories we live there you see
But despite all this, they still have their memories to hold onto

In our minds we are together and forever we’ll be
In their minds, they'll always be together with their loved ones

You can murder my land, make the skylarks scream
You can even destroy their land and cause natural beauty to be disrupted

Just to tell your provincials you’d not turn on them
This is all done to show your subjects that you won't turn against them

Your possessive ego crushes my friends and me
Their friends and they themselves have been crushed by your possessive ego

But I know in my mind that I want to be free
Despite all of this, they know in their mind that they want to be free

You fought Ireland as an organized army, you fought them as a country
Ireland was fought as an organized army and as a nation

But they fought you as a people and you were oblivious as to which serf was defending
However, Ireland fought as a united people and you didn't know who exactly you were fighting against

If you act like rats you get treated like this, but now you are rebutting
This explains how you're treated if you're fighting like rats, and now you're starting to push back

Because we stood like a rock when for tactics and answers, like rats you were scrambling
You were caught off guard when they stood united like a rock, while you were scrambling for tactics and answers like rats

What to report in the media, to tell to those to which you lied
You also had to decide what to report to the media, and what lies to tell your subjects

When Angolans and Serbs and Chinese and Nicaraguans and Zapatistas and Iranians and Cubans and Irish are always the ones who have died
You recognize that these are the people who constantly fight and die in these conflicts