lyrics:

Verse #1 (thought crimes, oppression by rotation)

The NSA breaks the law every day

it doesn't matter who you are or what you say

they monitor your phone calls and emails anyway

Corrupt Congress and courts paving the way

 

There's a lesson you’ll learn someday…

…watch what you say.

They spy on your mind, record your calls for posterity

Commit daily executive crimes with impunity.

 

They’re the authorities, here to keep us safe…

Until the boot ends up on your face.

 

NSA CHORUS

It's the NSA versus the Constitution

We the people are the ones our government is abusing

We can force any agency to make a new choice

When we build a movement, each raising our voice 

 

Verse #2 (lies, NSA reach, FISA, military-industrial complex)

They lie about the origins of the evidence

they lie about the numbers of Americans watched -- immense,
too large for them to calculate, they sigh

a self-serving lie from the government’s eye

 

computing power unmatched in human history

presuming the power to wiretap humanity

it's insanity how large the hubris looms

the government's watching you in the bathroom

 

and they lie about it at every opportunity

sustained abuses of every community.

Unity across Washington DC:

all three branches against you and me.

 

See, Bush signed a secret presidential decree.

Obama talked a big game, but presidentially,

did everything he could to entrench the Bush Legacy

A complex composed of military, industry

 

Eisenhower 60 years before anticipated it’d be

rising in the wings for generations, growing

a crisis in democracy sowing.

The future's at stake. You can start by knowing

 

NSA CHORUS

 

Verse #3 (Palmer Raids, COINTELPRO)

For a hundred years, since World War I

the FBI versus free speech has held the gun

Constitutional rights on the run

the Palmer raids the first but not the last one

 

Fast forward 40 years to the real red scare

McCarthy did a number but the FBI was there.

They were everywhere. They knew what you wore to bed

They prosecuted people for the thoughts in our heads.

 

What does it mean to monitor thoughts?

Spying means a lot more than watching what you bought

it's the Feds always knowing what you’ve got in your head

not only whoever with whom you share your bed

 

But whether you're compliant or a threat instead

A head, like MLK, to be "neutralized." 

That's the word the FBI used: decades of lies

exposed, revealed as institutionalized 

 

Beyond trying to drive Reverend King to suicide,

no one even knows how brother Malcolm died.

Fred Hampton killed in his own house, inside!

The feds bombed earth activist Judi Bari and lied

 

and those lies go all the way up the chain of command.

The agencies lie to judges when on the stand.

The Director, the head honcho, the man,

claims his lies were unplanned and that he didn't understand  

 

FBI CHORUS

It's the FBI versus the Constitution

We the people are the ones our government is abusing

We can force any agency to make a new choice

When we build a movement, each raising our voice

 

Verse 4* (Snowden, secrecy, Congress, budget)

How would a Patriot act, in fact?

He'd drag Congress out back, and beat it with a bat.

Like Revere rode through the streets, warning of attack,

Snowden, 250 years later, back

 

again the alarm. You can bet the farm 

that the agencies on democracy inflict harm,

hiding all their secrets -- works like a charm!

Congressional dysfunctionality far 

 

and wide go the attacks on cyberspace

and the telephone system, every call that you place

monitored: caller, receiver, profile, race, 

ideology, temperament, sexual taste

 

Noticed a budget crisis? Heres the waste:

billions every year to our country debase.

Don't settle for half ass, keeping spying in place.

The agencies need to be erased.

 

Verse #5 (Thought crimes, COINTELPRO, corruption, DHS)

Some people think that Edward Snowden is a traitor

But they ignore everything that happened later:

Congress lied to by executive officials.

We’re talking ‘bout corruption in the capital for shizzle.

 

Democracies fizzle when their people are watched

that's why the NSA's got to be stopped,

and the FBI too. Don't forget what they do.

Entire agencies arrayed against you,

 

raiding the homes of peaceful activists,

setting in motion predictable plot twists,

arresting democracy to bind her wrists.

The constitutional coup already happened: it's

 

DHS biometric data collection

surveillance drones, automatic license detection

Departments of corrections eclipsing universities.

We must all resist…or we'll be history

 

Closing CHORUS

It's the agencies versus We the People

Don’t stoop, don’t grovel to no government steeple

We can force our government to make a new choice

When we build a movement, each raising our voice

 

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