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Missiles flying in the third world

Towards a people stranded on their knees

Bombs falling over Baghdad

Killing children who are starving by degrees

There are those of us who question:

What’s the goal and what’s the cost?

Six hundred thousand dead malnourished children

A UN-sanctioned holocaust

Missiles flying in the third world

From Hanoi to Wounded Knee

Bombs falling over Baghdad

And each one shouts «Democracy!»

Contras, Kings and Generals

Brandish stars and stripes

From Rangoon to Los Angeles

Selling oil, guns and crack pipes

Missiles flying in the third world

And each one will kill a child

Bombs falling over Baghdad

And hunger and death is running wild

We had to destroy the village

In order to save it

To help this jungle grow

First we had to pave it

Missiles flying in the third world

Fits and starts are everywhere

From the mountains of Chiapas

To the streets of Central Square

Empires fall

This one will too

So here’s to the day

When this one is through

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