To The Teeth Lyrics

 to the teeth
 by 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
 malcom forecast it this way
 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