(A Pocketful of) Sunflower Seeds Lyrics

Patriots who follow fools

While partisans rewrite the rules

They glorify a maniac

Play the victim then attack

The unaware are who's preferred

Ideology averred

Ignorance they praise, exult

Like members of a cargo cult

They condemn the voice of journalists

And vote against their own interests

Knowledge has a risk potential

But privilege cloaks the influential

Peacekeepers absent without leave

Transmit only; can't receive

Absolution for their deeds

A pocketful of sunflower seeds

No safe harbor, no amnesty

The suffering get apathy

There's devastation on the front

It's the innocent who bear the brunt

A vestige of the old empire

Take by force what you desire

And if you have the jurisprudence

You don't need the threat of violence

A parting shot, a coup de grâce

When all else fails, there's Marshall (Sic) law

Challenge reason to a draw

For propaganda, shock and awe

Colonels absent without leave

Transmit only; can't receive

Absolution for their deeds

A pocketful of sunflower…

A pocketful of sunflower…

A pocketful of sunflower seeds