Story behind the song
LITTLE GREEN MEN – GI Joe
Germans wore GRAY
ZITADELLE - Hitler said his stomach turned
whenever he thought about the Kursk attack
LEONIDAS - Spartan king at Thermopylae
FABRIZIO ruined a jihadist’s photo op,
ripping off his hood
"oderint dum metuant" -
Cato “let them hate so long as they fear”
Lyrics
the best and brightest
say they’ll join the CIA
So much the better, hey hey
the heavy lifting
is always in the trenches, anyway
by little green men or ones in gray
waking in a sunflowered field
stomach turning zitadelle
take off the gloves
peace and love
hermetically sealed
on a salted field
oderint dum metuant
a language oh so fluent
Leonidas knew
there’s no second prize
like Fabrizio
showed ‘em how an Italian dies
all the while
the homunculi
their paper noses growing
burning at both ends
in the glory of not knowing
take off the gloves
peace and love
hermetically sealed
on a salted field
oderint dum metuant
the language oh so fluent
let ‘em fear
they already hate
they’ll never get
their caliphate
(in this world, anyway)
