Proxy Wars Lyrics

A nuclear bomb this has got to be illusion

A Mexican standoff with no clear solution

Walk it walk it back till we've dropped of a cliff then

We climb right back up just to suicide over

Ring around the proxy war pockets of Posy

Posing as strength while pretending it's Rosie

I remember reading on the crisis in Cuba

Pigs in the bay nearly caused a world war then

We funded the Contras to fight Sandinistas

10 years later Contras fought to defeat us

They've got the power to

Keep the wheel moving with the cogs in the grooves

They've got an interest to

Keep the people passive while they're making their moves

Keep consuming Keep collecting Keep digesting what they're feeding

Keep passive and keep quiet the last thing people should do is riot

They know that it's wrong but maintain the illusion

That everything's clear cut and has a solution

An old white man in a red tie and suit who

Promises strength and colludes with the Russians

Blaming the poor while he sends that to war

Well isn't that just what a proxy war's for?

Then Russia invades their good neighbor Ukraine while

We hold back the funds to get dirt on our rivals

One year later we will make a good profit

Selling bombs to Ukraine while we collect intel

They've got the power to

Keep the wheel moving with the cogs in the grooves

They've got an interest to

Keep the people passive while they're making their moves

Keep consuming Keep collecting Keep digesting what they're feeding

Keep passive and keep quiet the last thing people should do is riot

Keep passive and keep quiet One last thing: People should riot