What Our Children Is Learning

Dear Mr. Kenneth Lay:
What can we really say?
You grabbed at all the money that you can
And just like Halliburton,
when your bottom line is hurtin'
You can always send the bill to Uncle Sam

Dear Dick Cheney: Hi, it's Earth; we met once in Fort Worth
I called you big time, but your drill was short on steam
Well, you've screwed me ever since
and when your ticker finally quits
There'll be nowhere left to bury you that's green


What's the word, Big Energy?
What's the new strategery?
Is our children learning how to see?
No, they're learning
No, they're learning
No, they're learning
No, they're learning
No, they're learning how to sell democracy


Dear Mr. Richard Perle,
one of the men who'd sell the world:
You got the war you wanted,
so what now?
Every time a GI dies,
do the tears well in your eyes?
Or do you just say "Fuck 'em, I'll get paid no matter how"?

Dear President Bush:
it's Kim Jung Il from the Axis of Evil
I watched your war on CNN, what a production!
If you've forgotten who I am,
here's a hint: I ain't Saddam
I'm the one with all the weapons of mass destruction


So good job there on Saddam
But, hell, what happened to Bin Laden?
Is our children learning Dubya got him?
No, they're learning
No, they're learning
No, they're learning
No, they're learning
No, they're learning
No, they're learning he forgot him


Mr. Rumsfeld, my name's Jack:
I'm on the ground here in Iraq
It's not my place to tell you how to do your thing
But you act like we're all done
when we've only just begun
With all these bombs it's hard to hear that freedom ring

Hi Dubya, it's John Ashcroft;
I have worked my starched white ass off
To keep America safe and independent
Don't tell a soul what I'm about to say,
but I lost the key to Camp X-Ray
Along with the Fourth, the Fifth, the Sixth, and the Seventh Amendment


What's the word there down in Gitmo?
Is the Attorney General on crack?
Is our children learning all the facts?
No, they're learning
No, they're learning
No, they're learning
No, they're learning
No, they're learning how to take a big step back


We miss you so, Slick Willy C,
and you, too, Miss Lewinsky
Since you've left the whole damn nation's going down
We should have seen it coming
back when Dubya started running
2004, let's hope he's run right out of town

And please come back, dear Kenneth Starr,
no matter where you are
Now more than ever we need moral indignation
These patriots killed for good
what Bin Laden never could
They've buried the Bill of Rights in undisclosed location


What's the word on the Patriot Act?
Hell, what was wrong with the Constitution?
Is our children learning the solution?
No, they're learning
All they're learning
All they're learning
All they're learning
All they're learning
All they're learning all they're learning's retribution