Wrapped In The Flag

 Patriotism, without across the board equality
Is just a selective mental illness
Visited on the working class
They are brain washed into being patriotic
By their politicians and their newspapers
They’re taught loyalty to royalty
Unquestioning service to Queen and country
Ensuring that their sons and daughters
Volunteer to become canon fodder
And die, what they see, as glorious deaths
Coming home wrapped in the flag
The flag they had been taught to wave
The flag they’d been taught to defend
Making the ultimate sacrifice with their lives
This is regardless of any true need to go to war
Tony Blair and his weapons of mass deception
It was always only going to be about the oil
And the shares they own in the arms companies
There is so much profit and riches to be made
Fighting these battles under a black false flag
Disguised as the Union Jack to wrap ourselves in
Our flag has been hijacked by the right wing
By politicians, gutter newspapers, haters in general
By billionaire business men and the country’s elite
In order to fight, take our flag back from them
Service to queen and country must be equal
Doing military service must be regardless of wealth
Doing military service regardless of perceived status
Have the sons and daughters of M.P s, Judges, wealthy
Business men, Lords and the elite of the upper classes
Should also be on the front line ready to sacrifice
Instead of 30 miles behind the lines with the cocktail cabinet
Taking back the flag means fighting in defence of the realm
Not for oil revenues and the profits of defence contractors
Not for revenge just purely to defend those who cannot
To provide humanitarian assistance and security
I will not wrap myself or salute our current flag
I will not support a country hell bent on revenge
Hell bent in creating coffin parades draped in their flag
With our dead sons and daughters for the sake of
Oil, stolen resources, arms trade profiteering
You can wave the flag if you like
It now just dick waving
You can wrap yourself in the flag
But it is no longer our flag  
It’s their bastardised flag
It is fit for nothing except burning
As are those who hijacked my flag