They're gonna keep me safe

Up on the airplane

By stealing my face cream

And putting me through the cancer machine



Thank God for the government

To bring us bombs and war

Thank God for the government

To keep us dumb and poor



They're gonna give me rules

To help me obey

Tell me the good things

I can think and say

They're gonna give me the news

So I know what to fear

They're gonna choose

What I can see and hear



Thank God for the government

To bring us bombs and war

Thank God for the government

To keep us stupid and poor

Thank God for our leaders

Who sing like whores

Make our lives a living hell

And have us begging for more



Please keep me safe from the hell

That I pay taxes to create

And please protect me from the guns

That you sell and make



I thank God for those special humans

Who educate me

And thank the Lord for elected leaders

Who give me a place to be



Thank God for the government

To keep us always at war

And for telling us all the reasons

Why we must be divided and torn