Know your history

You want to take a stand You haven't made a plan You knew crusades bring misery Better know your history You spout your war disease Bring this nation to its knees The largest debts we've ever seen Better know your history Under the burning sun Another dead hero This road we're walking on To reap what we have sown A lockdown, here we go again Foreign aid with strings attached Cut down the working class The World Bank creeps In sheep's clothing Better know your history The masses, so deaf and blind We're back to the Roman times The truth is now the enemy Better know your history My family lived through both regimes The rising tide of lies and mass deceit They'll tell you what to think and what to say know your history You send the poor to fight Then praise the religious right A sacrilegous blasphemy Better know your history An empire of greedy thieves Bring the nation to its knees The new world corporatocracy Better know your kistory History For the past to repeat Is your destiny History I know we're going to pay To history