To The Teeth

Ani Difranco



the sun is settin on the century 
and we are armed to the teeth 
we are all working together now 
to make our lives mercifully brief 
schoolkids keep trying to teach us 
what guns are all about 
confuse liberty with weaponry 
and watch your kids act it out 
every year now like christmas 
some boy gets the mildfed surburban blues 
reaches for the avaliable aresenal 
and saunters off to make the news 
and women in the middle 
are learning what poor women have always known 
that the edge is closer than you think 
when your men bring the guns home 

look at where the profits are 
that's how you'll find the source 
of the big lie that you and i 
both know so well 
it the time it takes this cultural 
death wish to run its course 
they're gonna make a pretty penny 
and then they're all going to hell 
he said the chickens all come home to roost 
yeah, malcom forecasted this flood 
are we really gonna sleep through another century 
while the rich profir off our blood? 
true, it may take some doing 
to see this undoing done 
but in my humble opinion 
here's what i suggest we do: 

open fire on hollywood 
open fire on MTV 
open fire on NBC 
and CBS and ABC 
open fire on the NRA 
and all the lies they told us 
along the way 
open fire on each weapons manufacturer 
while he's giving head 
to some republician senator 

and if i hear one more time 
about fool's rights 
to his tools of rage 
I'm gonna take all my friends 
and i'm gonna move to canada 
and we're gonna die of old age
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