arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

American Soldier.

Hey Soldier, American Soldier,

Why are you in the Army or the Navy or the Airforce?

Is it to make a career? Your patriotic duty? Or just a job

to make some money?

You believe in the greatness of your Country and its leaders, you say?

Willing to defend freedom and democracy against terror?

And for that you are willing to become a killer, no questions asked.

Or are you blind to the terror you have become for others?

Think Soldier, think!

Hey Soldier, American Soldier,

Aren't you a working man?

Don't you know you are being used

To defend the Rich and Greedy against the Poor and Desolate?

Are you rich? Or just doped with patriotic propaganda

So you'll offer your life for the sake of the Haves,

Instead of for the Have-nots?

Think Soldier, think!

Hey Soldier, American Soldier,

Soon they will turn you into a merciless killer

Of people you have never met: men, women, children.

A destroyer of life, of people who could be your friends

if you cared to take the time before firing your hi-tech weapons.

You will gain your medal of honour by the blood of those you spill,

Perhaps posthumously.

Think Soldier, think!

Hey Soldier, American Soldier,

They'll tell you to do as you're told, not to think for yourself.

But in the end you'll have to live with yourself and with what you did.

And they'll discard you, for they do not care about you.

You will have served your purpose as cannon fodder to save the Rich

And they will rule the land and people you destroyed,

so they too will become servants to your Masters

Is that what you want Soldier?

Think Soldier, think!

Hey Soldier, American Soldier,

Many like you have come and gone.

Remember Vietnam? The Gulf war?

Sickness and death has struck many of you

Warped minds from exposure to your own munitions and drugs.

Killing their own wives and children,

never to be the same again.

Freedom and democracy through the barrel of a gun?

Think Soldier, think

Hey Soldier, American Soldier,

There is another way.

Forget your Army and your Navy and your Airforce,

For Peace and prosperity do not come from war

nor from the charities of the Rich

but from working-class solidarity across our world and

Sharing of the wealth through co-operation

And love for your fellow-humans, even those you do not know.

Join the army of workers to stop the war, soldier.

Think Soldier, think!

Dec 25, 2002.

"There's a war between the rith and poor
a war between the man and the woman"
cohen sang a long time ago
about an even longer time ago
He is a soldier, like every good artist is
a killer of the masters of war

Jeruzalem, and other
The future is murder
the apocalypse, the final judgement
everybody knows
but most of us are to afraid
to face this disasters of an unconcious drive
Eros and thanatasos
trhat's why were all in war,
for peace, I guess

B.R.