Avidya and the Kleshas — Babies Grow Up lyrics

Lyrics

My best friend from high school, she was kind of a slut and her brother smoked
pot every day before the bus came. He didn’t graduate but he just got done with
two rounds in Iraq and two round of applause. He got a gold star for pumping
star spangled lead for star spangled fun into a stark naked man who begged at
my friend’s brother to stop raping his terrified terrorist wife with the star
spangled barrel of his star spangled gun.
God bless you — God bless our troops — God bless you — Will God bless them?
Because their babies don’t grow up. Their babies don’t grow up. The star
spangled bombs meant to liberate and save (the star spangled crusade God swore
was safe) play a star spangled part in the brown babies falling out of
terrified mothers. The brown babies fall out of terrified terrorist mothers
with mangled heads and failing hearts.
Back home my babies grow up, skip along bloodied cement. My neighbor’s the
alleged terrorist suspect, yeah my babies grow up fearing the brown bearded man.
Back home my babies grow up septic and toxic, sipping mommy’s milk out of
contaminated plastic — my babies grow up shrink wrapped and malignant but hey,
at least they grow up, at least they’re breathing.
Because their babies don’t grow up. Their babies don’t grow up. The star
spangled bombs meant to liberate and save, the star spangled uranium God swore
was safe — well, it is your star spangled fault that the brown babies fall out
of terrified mothers. The brown babies fall out of terrified terrorist mothers
and we just skip along, disgraceful.
My best friend from high school, she was kind of a slut and her brother smoked
pot every day before the bus came. He didn’t graduate but he just got done with
two rounds in Iraq and two rounds in his gut.
He got some star spangled nails in his coffin. That’s what they’ve done for him.
He got some star spangled nails in his coffin. I’m sure his mother’s proud of
him.
God bless you. God bless these truths.