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what do you wanna be?
would you fight for your country?
why don't you pick up a gun
and shoot at somebody
but they're only gonna protect you
if that dollar sign is right
there's a war in every nation
but we turn our heads tonight
human rights went on vacation
money took over a long time ago
cry for this racial war
in all rwanda's glory
there ain't glory in a war
a black man or a white man
or an asian or a mexican
or an african or a south african
or a serbian or a libyian
you're all one race, the human race
a different smile for a different face
would you fight for your country?
why don't you pick up a gun
and shoot at somebody
but they're only gonna protect you
if that dollar sign is right
there's a war in every nation
but we turn our heads tonight
human rights went on vacation
money took over a long time ago
cry for this racial war
in all rwanda's glory
there ain't glory in a war
a black man or a white man
or an asian or a mexican
or an african or a south african
or a serbian or a libyian
you're all one race, the human race
a different smile for a different face
Lyrics submitted by oofus
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i really like this song and i think the message is pretty straightforward, which is good, because when it comes to these kinds of subjects, you can't mince words. he is so dead on with the line 'human rights went on vacation, money took over a long time ago'.
the united states has a long history of ignoring the suffering of people in other countries, while "regime change" is somehow warranted in oil rich nations. we perpetuate a sickening cycle of propping up murderous dictators with weapons of mass destuction and then turn our backs when they slaughter thousands of innocent people. only when they disobey their "masters"(i.e. the c.i.a.) do we do anything about it, and usually it results in us propping up another monster who will do the same things. helping people is no longer a virtue, it's a service that can be provided upon payment or indefinite servitude. so fucking sad, who will rescue us when it happens here in the U.S.?...
"or an asian or a mexican
or an african or a south african "
These lines....there were possible asian genocides...maybe he's talking about the cambodian genocide?, and as you can assume, a possible Mexican genocide and a South African Genocide? I think he's not just talking about Rwanda...he's jsut using Rwanda as the main example because its the most commonly thought of genocide to happen only a decade ago. I think he's talking about the U.S.'s hands off to foreign countries in trouble unless it has something that America will gain by helping them, hence the "human rights went on vacation
money took over a long time ago " lines.
In refrence to the line:
"or a serbian or a libyian"
some people consider there to have been a serbian genocide in Kosovo, and the libyan genocide refers to the genocide of the Armenians. Just a little side note.