Bad Religion Lyrics

Album: The Empire Strikes First

Let Them Eat War Lyrics

There's a prophet on a mountain and he's making up dinner 

 With long division and writing crop 

 Anybody can feel like a winner 

 When it's served up piping hot 

 

 But the people aren't looking for a handout 

 They're America's working corps 

 Can this be what they voted for? 

 

 Let them eat war [x2]

 That's how to ration the poor 

 Let them eat war [x2] 

 

 There's an urgent need to feed 

 Declining pride

 

 From the force to the union shops 

 The war economy is making new jobs 

 But the people who benefit most 

 Are breaking bread with their benevolent hosts 

 

 Who never stole from the rich to give to the poor 

 All they ever gave to them was a war 

 And a foreign enemy to deplore 

 

 Let them eat war [x2]

 That's how to ration the poor 

 Let them eat war [x2] 

 

 There's an urgent need to feed 

 Declining pride

 

 We've got to kill 'em and eat 'em

 Before they reach for their checks 

 Squeeze some blue collars 

 Let them bleed from their necks 

 Seize a few dollars from the people who sweat 

 Cause it's freedom or death and they won't question it 

 At a job site the boss is god like 

 Conditioned workhorses park at a stoplight 

 Seasoned vets with their feet in nets 

 A stones throw away from a rock fight 

 But not tonight, feed ‘em death 

 

 Here comes another ration (feed them death) 

 Cause they're the finest in the nation (feed them death) 

 When there's nothing left to feed them

 When it's freedom or it's death 

 

 Let them eat war [x2] 

 That's how to ration the poor 

 Let them eat war [x2] 

 

 There's an urgent need to feed