Mother Superior

[Verse 1]

How ready are you

To die for an ideal?

What's the connection

Between a lie and what is real?

Mother Superior

[Pre-Chorus]

I've got an angel on my back

I'm one of the righteous

And I'm never going back

No, no, no

I'm never going back

[Verse 2]

Who's that shining forth-right man

About to die behind me

He's waiting for the portress to

Send me head over heels

Who's that black-heart four-star

General walking up the Hill

To ask the liberals nicely

To help, finance his private war

[Chorus]

And if I didn't trust that man

When he puts the rifle in your hand

Sings you songs of pageantry and grace

And how much you want to bet

On the other side

There's a man with twice your pride?

And they put you feet first in an

Unmarked grave

[Verse 3]

There was a time in our history

When we justified by saying

Our destinies manifest

Now imperialism is the mantra

Of the west

[Bridge]

See that trigger happy

College boys, love a chance

To try out their new toys

Then they wash the city streets

Clean, with the blood of infidels

[Chorus]

And if I didn't trust that man

When he puts the rifle in your hand

Sings you songs of pageantry and grace

And how much you want to bet

On the other side

There's a man with twice your pride?

And they put you feet first in an

Unmarked grave

[Outro]

As the fabric of democracy

Left tattered in the dust

We could put, another greedy man

Into the dictatorial

Puppet-show, now

Tell me, who do you trust?

Who do you trust?

[Bridge - Continued]

And an abominable hemisphere

Would perpetuate a heart-whole

Atmosphere

Call it a threat

To national security

Call it just a poor-sick face

One more place

To export cheap labor

[Chorus - Final]

Hail the monarchy

Hail the oligarchy

A potential for anarchy

And we pat ourselves

Firmly on the back