MONSTER - SUICIDE - AMERICA
From the 1970 release “Monster”
Words and music by Steppenwolf: John Kay, Jerry Edmonton, Nick St. Nicholas and Larry Byrom
(Monster)
Once the religious, the hunted and weary
Chasing the promise of freedom and hope
Came to this country to build a new vision
Far from the reaches of kingdom and pope
Like good Christians, some would burn the witches
Later some got slaves to gather riches
But still from near and far to seek America
They came by thousands to court the wild
And she just patiently smiled and bore a child
To be their spirit and guiding light
And once the ties with the crown had been broken
Westward in saddle and wagon it went
And ‘til the railroad linked ocean to ocean
Many the lives which had come to an end
While we bullied, stole and bought our a homeland
We began the slaughter of the red man
But still from near and far to seek America
They came by thousands to court the wild
And she just patiently smiled and bore a child
To be their spirit and guiding light
The blue and grey they stomped it
They kicked it just like a dog
And when the war over
They stuffed it just like a hog
And though the past has it's share of injustice
Kind was the spirit in many a way
But it's protectors and friends have been sleeping
Now it's a monster and will not obey
(Suicide)
The spirit was freedom and justice
And it's keepers seem generous and kind
It's leaders were supposed to serve the country
But now they won't pay it no mind
‘Cause the people grew fat and got lazy
And now their vote is a meaningless joke
They babble about law and order
But it's all just an echo of what they've been told
Yeah, there's a monster on the loose
It's got our heads into a noose
And it just sits there watchin’
Our cities have turned into jungles
And corruption is stranglin’ the land
The police force is watching the people
And the people just can't understand
We don't know how to mind our own business
‘Cause the whole worlds got to be just like us
Now we are fighting a war over there
No matter who's the winner
We can't pay the cost
‘Cause there's a monster on the loose
It's got our heads into a noose
And it just sits there watching
(America)
America where are you now?
Don't you care about your sons and daughters?
Don't you know we need you now
We can't fight alone against the monster
So what can we the people do? We the people have power, that much I know from the quaking booties of the MSM during the tea parties. I saw a CNN reporter forced to take a break when we the people crashed their servers when we the people saw her to be a bully and an a Zero supporter at any cost.
We the people can put a pickle in the exhaust pipe of this vehicle to marginalize our movement. But we need a plan to do it. We the people have a tremendous power. How do we harness it, direct it, and effectively get everyone on the same page?
The government is a small group of people that think they know better than us. We are a huge group. They bank on us not organizing and effectively directing the energy that we possess. We the people must not tolerate an American Pravda under any circumstances.
Does anyone have ideas on how we the people might jam phone lines, send enough emails to crash servers and otherwise disrupt this assault on our freedom?
There, now I must be on the Obama enemy list.