Key: B minor
Intro 1
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This is breaking
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news
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It appears that Air Force One
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was shot down
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Somewhere over the Middle
East this morning
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By a sleeper cell of rogue terrorists,
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firing a Stinger Missile
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The Pilot and all passengers
are unaccounted for
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The President's whereabouts
are presently unknown
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And he is presumed missing
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The Vice President, Secret
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ary of State,
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And principals of the military
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are assembling
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Our nation stands at
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Defcon 3
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The greatest crisis,
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will someone come for me?
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I "red, white and blew it"
Unleashed revenge,
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my body is detained
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How could anybody do this?
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Betrayal,
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I peel away the days
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Medals are useless,
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Uncle Sam's forgotten me
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I'm not important,
no one will ever come
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I'll never be found,
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God get me out of this hell
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Nuclear battlefield
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s energized
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Cold wars are heating up again
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The tensions mounting
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People
Verse 4
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lift up your fists in revenge
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The stage is set
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Who will be the first to blink?
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We can't go to war
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Remember that "Vietnam
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thing"
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Peace at any price
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With a gun to your head, bang, bang
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Weak
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ness runs in your fam ily
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What runs in mine is death
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This is your 5 minute warn ing
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Burn all your classified documents
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And if cooler head
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s don't prevail
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First strike from a political dead man
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Appeasement only makes the ag
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gressor more aggressive
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He understands only one language,
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action!
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And he re spects only one word,
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force!
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No sign of them stopping,
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No time for back channel
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communiques
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We need all the help we can get,
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air strikes and invasions!
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Retaliate, I say!
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The will
Verse 6
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of good men can not counter the terrible strain
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of war
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Blackmail the Universe with the
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greatest of calamities
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Awaken those sleeping giants
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in the dust of the ground
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With their skin destroyed,
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unjust to innocence
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Lawful possessor of the world's
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last 24 hours
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Terror and ugliness reveal
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what death really means
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And in hatred you see men as
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they really are
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If chosen over heaven,
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Earth will have been for them
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All along, only
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another region of hell
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