World Burns To d**h - Apparatus lyrics

Saigon, Vietnam 1963 Elderly Buddhist monk sets himself ablaze Suicide as protest to the Diem regime Complicit in U.S./French hegemony D.C., Pentagon 1965 32 year old pacifist, father of three Douses himself with gallons of kerosene Under the window of McNamara Detroit, Michigan 1965 82 year old woman burns herself to d**h Despondent with the horrors of the war in Indochina Charred bones thrown into the cogs of Apparatus With great guns and reater hate This beast thought itself equal to the force of life Some say Apparatus cannot be stopped Some say Apparatus cannot be stopped Some say Apparatus cannot be stopped One swallows dry and takes a chance Defeat of the global American Empire By a revolution of peasants abroad And astonishing protest at home 'War is the health of the state' And this Apparatus hungers for flesh Those who threw themselves into that machine Slippery with foam and blood Choking the hangman with noose drawn taut Made the gallows as holy as the cross Some say Apparatus cannot be stopped But one swallows dry and takes a chance