Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Albright Monument, Baghdad , by - Propagandhi. Release date: 11.11.2021
Song language: English
Albright Monument, Baghdad |
| Wadia’s best friend’s youngest sister was denied a decent burial |
| Because for two days they couldn’t douse the flames |
| The allied planes had showered on her tiny body. |
| And all the paper trails that lead to all the roads |
| That lead to all these Basras make it seem like we’re all just «collateral damage» |
| Waiting to be happened in some unforeseen fucking Pentagon budget-drill. |
| Today’s Ba’ath regime is just the Red Scare of yesteryear. |
| And I drink myself to sleep because I’m losing faith |
| That any of us will ever amount to anything more |
| Than reluctant human subsidies, |
| The moving parts in a death-machine, |
| Protesting their complicity, |
| But waiting for somebody else to throw their body on the churning gears. |
| I drink myself to sleep because |
| I’m losing faith that we, |
| Here in the Cradle of Affluence can cease this sickening drive |
| For individual strength through state-powers' swinging fists |
| Or that we’ll ever look back and laugh at the irony that is: |
| An atomic murderer is enshrined in Independence, |
| USA while 8000 miles from here (back in the Cradle of Democracy) |
| It’s another banner year for a cottage industry |
| A ritual at the corner of George and Constantine |
| As foundries scramble to recast his decapitated monument. |