[Verse 1]
Finally got to Washington
In the middle of the night, I couldn't wait
I headed straight for the Capitol Mall
My heart began to pound
Yahoo! It really exists:
The American International Pictures logo

[Verse 2]
I looked up at that Capitol Building
Couldn't help but wonder why
I felt like saying, "Hello, old friend"
Walked up the hill to touch it
Then I unzipped my pants
And pissed on it when nobody was looking

[Pre-Chorus]
Like a great eternal Klansman
With his two flashing red eyes
Turn around, it's always watching
The Washington Monument pricks the sky
With flags for pubic hair
Ringed 'round the bottom

[Chorus]
The symbols of our heritage
Lit up proudly in the night
Somehow fits to see the homeless people
Passed out on the lawn
So, this is where it happens:
The power games and the bribes
All lobbying for a piece of ass
Of the Stars and Stripes of corruption
[Verse 3]
Makes me feel so ashamed
To be an American
When we're too stuck-up
To learn from our mistakes
Trying to start another Vietnam
While fiddling while Rome burns at home
The boss says, "You're laid off
Blame the Japanese"

[Verse 4]
"America's back," all right
At the game, it plays the worst
Strip-mining the world
Like a slave plantation
No wonder others hate us
And the Hitlers we handpick
To bleed their people dry
For our evil empire

[Pre-Chorus]
The drug we're fed
To make us like it
Is God and country with a bang
People, we know who should know better
Howl, "America rules, let's go to war!"
Business scams are what's worth dying for
[Chorus]
But are the Soviets our worst enemy?
We're destroying ourselves instead
Who cares about our civil rights
As long as I get paid?
The blind Me Generation
Doesn't care if life's a lie
So easily used, so proud to enforce
The Stars and Stripes of corruption

[Refrain]
Let's bring it all down!
Let's bring it all down!
Let's bring it all down!
Down, down, down, down, down
Down, down, down, down, down
Down, down, down, down, down
Down, down!

[Bridge]
Tell me who's the real patriots:
The Archie Bunker slobs waving flags
Or the people with the guts to work
For some real change?
Rednecks and bombs don't make us strong
We loot the world, yet we can't even feed ourselves
Our real test of strength is caring
Not the war toys we sell the world
Just carry on, thankful to be farmed like worms
Old Glory for a blanket as you suck on your thumbs
Real freedom scares you
'Cause it means responsibility
So, you chicken out and threaten me
Saying, "Love it or leave it"
I'll get beat up if I criticize it
You say you'll fight to the death
To save your useless flag
If you want a banana republic that bad
Why don't you go move to one?

[Bridge 2]
But what can just one of us do
Against all that money and power
Trying to crush us into roaches?
We won't destroy society in a day
Until we change ourselves first
From the inside out
We can start by not lying so much
And treating other people like dirt
It's so easy not to base our lives
On how much we can scam
And you know it feels good
To lift that monkey off our backs

[Verse 5]
I'm thankful I live in a place
Where I can say the things I do
Without being taken out and shot
So, I'm on guard against the goons
Trying to take my rights away
We've got to rise above
The need for cops and laws

[Verse 6]
Let kids learn communication
Instead of schools pushing competition
How about more art and theater instead of sports?
People will always do drugs
Let's legalize them
Crime drops when the mob can't price them
Budget's in the red?
Let's tax religion

[Pre-Chorus]
No one will do it for us
We'll just have to fix ourselves
Honesty ain't all that hard
Just put Rambo back inside your pants
Causing trouble for the system
Is much more fun

[Chorus]
Thank you for the toilet paper
But your flag is meaningless to me
Look around, we're all people
Who needs countries anyway?
Our land, I love it, too
I think I love it more than you
I care enough to fight
The Stars and Stripes of corruption

[Refrain]
Let's bring it all down!
Let's bring it all down!
Let's bring it all down!

[Outro]
If we don't try
If we just lie
If we can't find a way
To do better than this
Who will?