Defense Force, My Ass! Lyrics

Do unarmed civilians pose a threat to you?

Are you scared of their children? What do you do?

Do you bomb someone's home and say it's defense?

Your targets are children Make it make sense

Our taxes fund your war even though we don't want it

We fund your free health care too Take care not to flaunt it

Take care to keep your little guns clean

Because we live in a worldwide war machine!

There's a million other things that I could do about it

I can bite my tongue or shout out about it

I could break down feel helpless or cry

But I'm angry as hell and I'm gonna tell you why!

Civilians displaced Civilians shot

Premature babies left out to rot

Don't forgive me if I sound rather crass

But Israel Defense Force my ass!

Famine Thirst Particles in the air

A girl knows her mother's body by her hair

Hospitals shattered just like glass

Israel Defense Force my ass!

OIL! Oil off the Gaza shore

(OIL!) Every day the oil companies want more

(OIL!) And it's a legal responsibility to ease the shareholders

(OIL!) Revenue is in the eye of the beholder

There's a million other things that I could do about it

I could bite my tongue or shout out about it

And the media goes live each day to report your lies

Of course I'm angry and I'm screaming out why!

You claim the safety of your people is why you slaughter

Yet you flood the land you claim with sea water

For a thousand years your damage will last

Israel Defense Force my ass!

What are you defending?

US oil interests? (OIL)

What are you defending? (OIL)

Shareholder interests?

You desecrate a home for short-term profits

But no one in the end is gonna live off it

Nothing can grow there not even the grass

Israel Defense Force my ass!

To the land you say that you are attached

But your cartoon villainy is unmatched

Because you massacred students who just wanted class

Israel Defense Force my ass!

What are you defending? (OIL)

US oil interests? (OIL)

What are you defending? (OIL)

Shareholder interests? (OIL)

(OIL) AAH

(OIL) AAH

(OIL) AAH

(OIL) AAH

When your government demands military service it is your prerogative to break the law