Anti-Flag - Stars and Stripes lyrics

Welcoming with open arms and
With open hearts
In the end they found their arms in shackles
And their hearts torn out
This country named America is built on graves
Of the natives who lived here before
Genocide took place
The word "America" means "freedom" - as in
"free to kill the free"

Don't fly those stripes, those stars
And stripes for me, for me
Don't fly those stripes, those stars
And stripes for me, for me for me!

It's the same today as then
As US tax dollars are spent
To rid the native insurgence in Mexico
And any other US corporate interests
The third world is a modern day playground
For multinational companies


And the tax dollars we're forced to pay
Fund these heartless US policies
Their explanation "it's national interest
National security"

Don't fly those stripes, those
Stars-and-stripes for me, for me
Don't fly those stripes, those
Stars-and-stripes for me, for me
They stand for greed, they stand for hate
For nothing I believe
Don't fly those stripes, those
Stars-and-stripes for me, for me

At Little Bighorn national cemetery
There's a monument that reads: "to the
Soldiers killed in Montana while clearing
Hostile Indians away '
And there's a flag there flying high
Over the fallen killers' graves
When they call on me to die
For them I'll say "not me!"
Don't fly those stripes, those
Stars-and-stripes for me, for me
Don't fly those stripes, those
Stars-and-stripes for me, for me
They stand for greed, they stand for hate
For nothing I believe
Don't fly those stripes, those
Stars-and-stripes for me, for me

Don't fly those stripes
Those stars-and-stripes for me
Don't fly those stripes
Those stars-and-stripes for me
They stand for greed, they stand for hate
For nothing I believe
Don't fly those stripes
Those stars-and-stripes for me

Don't fly those stripes, those
Stars-and-stripes for me, for me
Don't fly those stripes, those
Stars-and-stripes for me, for me
They stand for greed, they stand for hate
For nothing I believe
Don't fly those stripes
Those stars-and-stripes for me me me!