Potshot Heard 'Round the World lyrics

Hey, yo, we're the United States Marines

We know you've all been killing each other for at least 2000 years

But we're here now to protect the family

Of christian heroin warlords most friendly to the west

So you knock off this fighting or we'll tell mom

Ever notice news is staged like TV wrestling shows?

With Reagans and Khaddafis cast as cartoon villains and heroes

Or those wildlife documentaries where a lion from a zoo

Kills a deer tied down ahead of time at the perfect camera angle

When lemmings balk at dying for Disney, they're hurled off the cliff

We are gathered here today to take photos of the president

Pretending to mourn these brave young men who came home from Beirut

Gift-wrapped in body bags, a truck bomb blew them to bits

We knew they were sitting ducks, we sacrificed 'em, Aztec style

So we could use their dead meat to cook up war fever back home

So make sure you take lots of pictures and slant your news our way

Just like in Wild Kingdom, we first tied down the prey

We want people boiling for revenge in their living rooms

So we can go play shoot-em-up anywhere we choose

And our backers can cash in without the public asking questions

• Artist:Dead Kennedys
• Album:Bedtime for Democracy (1986)