Bullet The Sky That No Longer Is Blue

A building that has five sides in which so much is thrown
taxpayer dollars, that money we all make
feeling comes to trouble me
and despite the concealer of new shades of thinking
I can't shake the dread

Crisis comes a calling look at all their hats
President, the Secretaries, press spokesmen all the same
point the finger rise up with the big stick
only now we tell a dictator it is okay to kill
just do it without chemical weapons
that is what the "freedom lovers" prefer

Now the question I have heard no answer to is
will drone air strikes magically evaporate the threat
if the delivery system is destroyed will not the chemicals be released?
no, no there will be no "boots on the ground"
the national consensus is no more war
which is cute because when was the last time
war was declared?

We have Homeland Security even checking the books you read
CIA with a budget few of us will ever see
don't forget the FBI's talents
friends that can count on the US like clockwork
to bulk up their military pedigree

Yet what is missing are those agents of peace
the true apostles of change this world requires
no not a leader who wins a Nobel Peace Prize
and then ends up enlarging the war machine
now not so much troops, veterans still treated so bad
but the automation of combat

We can expand the choices of missile systems
tracking body heat and the like
yet the avenues of nonviolent coexistence
aren't profitable for the ardent capitalists

"Now am I bugging you? I don't mean to bug ya. OK, Edge. Play the blues".