To The Teeth [shoot-out Remix] Lyrics - Swing Set - Ani Difranco

The sun is setting on the century 

And we are armed to the teeth 

We're all working together now 

To make our lives mercifully brief 

And school kids keep trying to teach us 

What guns are all about 

Confused liberty with weaponry 

And watch your kids act it out 

And every year now like christmas 

Some boy gets the milk fed suburban blues 

Reaches for the available arsenal 

And saunters off to make the news 

And the women in the middle 

Are learning what poor women have always known 

That the edge is closer than you think 

When the men bring the guns home 

Look at where the profits are 

That's how you'll find the source 

Of the big lie that you and I both know so well 

By the time it takes this cultural 

Death wish to run it's course 

They're gonna to make a pretty penny 

And then they're going to hell 

He said the chickens all come home to roost 

Malcolm forecast the flood 

Are we really going to sleep through another century 

While the rich profit off our blood 

Yeah it may take some doing 

To see this undoing through 

But in my humble opinion 

Here's what I suggest we do 

Open fire on hollywood 

Open fire on mtv 

Open fire on nbc and cbs and abc 

Open fire on the nra 

And all the lies they told us along the way 

Open fire on each weapons manufacturer 

While he's giving head to some republican senator 

And if I hear one more time 

About a fools right to his tools of rage 

I'm gonna take all my friends 

And I'm going to move to Canada 

And we're going to die of old age