Watchmen

They’re watching over you,

They’re watching you -

They guard you while you sleep

Your shepherd-lords

With loving rods

Stand guard over their sheep.

They wage war on the warlords

Keep the bad men far away

Your bastions and firewalls

Can’t keep evil at bay.

Like trained falcons, their predators

Are turned upon their prey…

Remote-controlled lightning bolts;

Drones easily homing

Watch over you, safe in your bed

And guard your snoozy droning.

It’s convenient, civilized warfare

Plus it’s on a distant shore

And the formulation of the collateral damage

Returns numbers small enough to ignore

Waging upon Terror

A terrorizing war…

 

It is their solemn duty

Since the day their twins were sacked

To make of spying on her citizens

A patriotic act

They signed away their freedoms

Now the land of the free, of the brave

Is in the grip of the terror she sought to fight,

Is now a land of slaves.

 

The Watchmen in their towers

Put forth their mighty powers

And at their enemies, fiery arrows shoot

And at a couple of her sons, too

If they tell inconvenient truths.

They turn cold shoulders on truth-tellers

Shun them, like lepers, or wizards

Frozen out of society,

And snowed in by the blizzards,

The storms of condemnation…

Rejected by their nation

And now the falcons of protection

Seek their errant sons’ destruction…

 

The Watchmen in their towers

Defend you freedoms, your rights…

They watch us, through prisms,

With their all-seeing eyes…