John Raymond Pollard

Lyrics

The government's got you.
You just lost your right to die,
your right to live, your right to decide.
The government's got you. The government's got you.

Welcome to the modern age of tyranny:
thought control as images on your TV
shape the very texture of the world we see.
You'd better wake up before it's too late.
So get out and vote and take back the state.
The government's got you.

The government's got you.
You just lost your right to die,
right to live, your right to decide.
The government's got you. The government's got you.

Long Dong Silver model of morality
sits in judgment on the court we call supreme.
Meanwhile, tyranny of the majority,
proposed into law in state after state
denies human rights and promulgates hate.
You know, the government's got you.
The government's got you.

Karen Quinlan's parents went through agony,
caught up in a burgeoning bureaucracy,
tubes and needles tore into their progeny,
who'd never wake up; and thought far too late,
her death was denied by doctors and state.
You know, the government's got you.

The government's got you.
You just lost your right to die,
right to live, your right to decide.
The government's got you. The government's got you.

Think of Jeffersonian democracy
and a fundamentalist theocracy?
If the later choice is not your cup of tea,
you'd better wake up before it's too late
and get out and vote and take back the state, because
the government's got you. The government's got you.