Finally got to Washington in the middle of the night 
I couldn't wait 
I headed straight for the Capitol Mall  
My heart began to pound 
Yahoo! It really exists 
The American International Pictures logo  
 
I looked up at that Capitol Building 
Couldn't help but wonder why 
I felt like saying "Hello, old friend"  
 
Walked up the hill to touch it 
Then I unzipped my pants 
And pissed on it when nobody was looking  
 
Like a great eternal Klansman 
With his two flashing red eyes 
Turn around he's always watching 
The Washington monument pricks the sky 
With flags like pubic hair ringed 'round the bottom  
 
The symbols of our heritage 
Lit up proudly in the night 
Somehow fits to see the homeless people 
Passed out on the lawn  
 
So this is where it happens 
The power games and bribes 
All lobbying for a piece of ass  
 
Of the stars and stripes of corruption  
Makes me feel so ashamed 
To be an American 
When we're too stuck up to learn from our mistakes 
Trying to start another Viet Nam 
Whilke fiddling while Rome burns at home 
The Boss says, "You're laid off. Blame the Japanese"  
"America's back," alright 
At the game it plays the worst 
Strip mining the world like a slave plantation  
 
No wonder others hate us 
And the Hitlers we handpick 
To bleed their people dry 
For our evil empire  
 
The drug we're fed 
To make us like it 
Is God and country with a band  
 
People we know who should know better 
Howl, "America riles. Let's go to war!" 
Business scams are what's worth dying for  
 
Are the Soviets our worst enemy? 
We're destroying ourselves instead 
Who cares about our civil rights 
As long as I get paid?  
 
The blind Me-Generation 
Doesn't care if life's a lie  
 
so easily used, so proud to enforce  
 
The stars and stripes of corruption  
Let's bring it all down!  
Tell me who's the real patriots  
The Archie Bunker slobs waving flags?  
Or the people with the guts to work  
For some real change  
Rednecks and bombs don't make us strong 
We loot the world, yet we can't even feed ourselves 
Our real test of strength is caring 
Not the toys of war we sell the world  
Just carry on, thankful to be farmed like worms 
Old glory for a blanket 
As you suck on your thumbs  
 
Real freedom scares you 
'Cos it means responsibility  
 
So you chicken out and threaten me  
 
Saying, "Love it or leave it" 
I'll get beat up if I criticize it 
You say you'll fight to the death 
To save your worthless flag  
 
If you want a banana republic that bad 
Why don't you go move to one 
But what can just one of us do? 
Against all that money and power 
Trying to crush us into roaches?  
 
We don't destroy society in a day 
Until we change ourselves first 
From the inside out  
 
We can start by not lying so much 
And treating other people like dirt 
It's easy not to base our lives 
On how much we can scam  
 
And you know 
It feels good to lift that monkey off our backs  
 
I'm thankful I live in a place 
Where I can say the things I do 
Without being taken out and shot 
So I'm on guard against the goons 
Trying to take my rights away 
We've got to rise above the need for cops and laws  
 
Let kids learn communication 
Instead of schools pushing competition 
How about more art and theater instead of sports?  
 
People will always do drugs 
Let's legalize them 
Crime drops when the mob can't price them 
Budget's in the red? 
Let's tax religion  
 
No one will do it for us 
We'll just have to fix ourselves 
Honesty ain't all that hard 
Just put Rambo back inside your pants 
Causing trouble for the system is much more fun  
 
Thank you for the toilet paper 
But your flag is meaningless to me 
Look around, we're all people 
Who needs countries anyway?  
 
Our land, I love it too 
I think I love it more than you 
I care enough to fight  
 
The stars and stripes of corruption  
Let's bring it all down!  
If we don't try 
If we just lie 
If we can't find 
A way to do it better than this 
Who will?