{"id":274,"date":"2004-12-24T11:30:54","date_gmt":"2004-12-24T19:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/?p=274"},"modified":"2008-12-29T11:32:03","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T19:32:03","slug":"at-least-it-wasnt-dick-cheney-singing-the-little-driller-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/2004\/12\/24\/at-least-it-wasnt-dick-cheney-singing-the-little-driller-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"At least it wasn&#8217;t Dick Cheney singing The Little Driller Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after my editor mentioned on her blog how much she hated certain Christmas music, and a commenter reaching for a word mentioned the Infant Jesus \u201cin his crib,\u201d lightning hit my stereo again. I recognized the tune at least, this time: Public Enemy\u2019s\u00a0<em>Fight the Power.<\/em>\u00a0But I don\u2019t know\u00a0<em>what<\/em>\u00a0to make of the lyrics\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Neg three BCE the number another winter (get down)<br \/>\nSound of the Virgin M, her<br \/>\nScreaming hittin\u2019 your ears \u2018cause I know you sin, soul<br \/>\n(Brethren and sistren, hey)<br \/>\nBut today, we\u2019re not too sure<br \/>\nAre our motives all pure<br \/>\nAskin\u2019 what Bush knows<br \/>\nWhile the Guardsmen sweatin\u2019<br \/>\nAnd the mortar rounds fallin\u2019<br \/>\nGot to tell us why we\u2019re there<br \/>\nGotta give us an excuse<br \/>\nWell, freedom of faith is freedom for death<br \/>\nWe got to bomb the heathens that be<br \/>\nLemme hear you say<br \/>\nBomb the heathens<\/p>\n<p>(Chorus)<\/p>\n<p>As the rubble designed to bounce<br \/>\nWhat counts is that the spin\u2019s<br \/>\nDesigned to cloud your mind<br \/>\nNow that you\u2019re convinced our pride\u2019s on line<br \/>\nWe\u2019ve got to rule Baghdad to make us glad<br \/>\nClose your heart<br \/>\nRape a tart, set flames to art<br \/>\nTo devolutionize roll back change fear the strange<br \/>\nPeople. Muslims, are they the same?<br \/>\nNo, they\u2019re not the same<br \/>\nHit them with all the blame<br \/>\nWhat we need is gasoline, small cars are obscene<br \/>\nRah, rah, SUV<br \/>\nMy President, saddle up the horses<br \/>\nPreempt invasion ground forces<br \/>\n(Yo) Smart bomb the show<br \/>\nAnd maybe nuke them till they glow<br \/>\nMake everybody see, it\u2019s our job to bomb the heathens that be<br \/>\nLemme hear you say\u2026<br \/>\nBomb the heathens<\/p>\n<p>(Chorus)<\/p>\n<p>Jesus was a hero to most<br \/>\nBut he never meant shit to me, you meat;<br \/>\nStraight pacifist that preacher was<br \/>\nSimple and neat<br \/>\nMother fuck him and Saint Pete<br \/>\nCause I\u2019m White and I\u2019m proud<br \/>\nI\u2019m ready and hyped, son of Huns<br \/>\nMost Christian heros don\u2019t appear without guns<br \/>\nSample a look back you look and find<br \/>\nNothing but killers for 1000 years, they\u2019re chillers<br \/>\n\u201cDo unto others\u201d<br \/>\nWas a number one thought<br \/>\nDamn if I say it you can shoot me right here<br \/>\n(Get it) let\u2019s get this purging started right<br \/>\nRight on, c\u2019mon<br \/>\nWhat we got to say<br \/>\nPower for warriors no delay<br \/>\nTo make everybody see<br \/>\nIn order to bomb the heathens that be<\/p>\n<p>(Bomb the heathens.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after my editor mentioned on her blog how much she hated certain Christmas music, and a commenter reaching for a word mentioned the Infant Jesus \u201cin his crib,\u201d lightning hit my stereo again. I recognized the tune at least, this time: Public Enemy\u2019s\u00a0Fight the Power.\u00a0But I don\u2019t know\u00a0what\u00a0to make of the lyrics\u2026 Neg three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}