Iraq

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This is a U.K.-exclusive bonus track on the album Fight With Tools. Its title betrays the theme that will play out, which is the war in Iraq. The style of this song is… Read More

Oct. 16, 20071 viewer

Iraq Lyrics

[Interview sample]
Do you think the U.S. forces should have moved into Baghdad?
No
There would have been a U.S. occupation of Iraq
Once you took down Saddam Hussein's government, what are gonna put in its place?
It's uhh, it's a quagmire

[Verse 1]
Imagine
Rewind
Analyzed Quotations
I Rally All Quarters
Increase Resistance
Anticipation

Question Intelligence Rarely Actionable
Quiz International Relatives
Applicable Quips Interrupt Radio Accounts

Quiet

Initiate Rounds
All Qualified Innocents Report
Activate Quickly Increase Rewards
Astonishing Quantities, Immediate Resources (Affordable Quality Insurance)

Rapid Assurances
Queries Into Relevance
Audiences Quelled Into Red-bloodedness
Antiwar Quibbling Irks Rowdy Americans Quintessential Ignorance
Rinsed Airwaves
Que Incredible
Right-wing Allegiance
Cue

[Hook]
It’s Really A Quagmire
It’s Really A Quagmire
It’s Really A Quagmire
It’s Really A Quagmire

(It’s Really A Quagmire)
(It’s Really A Quagmire)
(It’s Really A Quagmire)
(It’s Really A Quagmire)

[Verse 2]
It Rages
Annually
Quarterly
Innocents Ricocheted
Accordingly Queasiness Infiltrates
Reforming Attitudes
Quite Interesting

Reactors Absent
Quarantine Idiotic Reckless Authorities
Quorum Is Reached
And Quest Isn’t Really Accomplished

Quadrennial Intentions? Run, Abscond Quick

Into Response A Quixotic Insistence
Resolving All Quandaries In Ridiculousness
And Quid pro quo Influx Reservists
Assignment: Quash Insurgents

Resurgence
Activists, Quakers Instigate Rallies
Advocating Quitting Instantly

Representatives Apprehensive
Quiescence Ineffectual

Refugee Accrual
Quicksand Invites Removal
Amputees Quadruple

Infidels Resuscitate Al Qaeda

[Hook]
It’s Really A Quagmire
It’s Really A Quagmire
It’s Really A Quagmire
It’s Really A Quagmire

[Interview Sample]
And the question for the President
Was how many additional dead Americans was Saddam really worth?
The answer was not very many

[Hook]
It’s Really A Quagmire
It’s Really A Quagmire
It’s Really A Quagmire
It’s Really A Quagmire

About

This is a U.K.-exclusive bonus track on the album Fight With Tools. Its title betrays the theme that will play out, which is the war in Iraq.

The style of this song is very different from the rest of the album. It begins and ends with clips from an interview about why the war was probably not as morally necessary as it was made to sound. The stanzas are erratic in length and rhythm, and the overall effect is a sense of chaos.

Though if the flows are a little fucked up, it’s made up for by some mad violin skills by Mackenzie Gault, who is on most every track rocking the strings and gets far less credit than she deserves.

Whats lyrically amazing about this track is that if you look at the first letter of each word in a verse it spells out IRAQ
as well as in the hook (Its Really A Quagmire ),(except in the last line of the first verse where “Cue” makes the “Q” sound it still makes lyrical sense.)