Actually, this was originally about a completely different George, a fictional one.





They scramble for cover by shopping at Wal-mart
Blow-dried reporters fawn over alerts

Driving up ratings while scaring the public
TV whitewashes war into a game

What they don't show you: the mangled up children,
The twisted out metal that ripped through their skulls.

TV shows war games and tumbling statues,
Happy young families saluting the flag.

I want to wake up on the beach
I want to wake up on the beach

Don't want perpetual war, don't want pre-emptive strikes
Don't want clandestine killings as no might makes right

Don't want no covert ops, don't want more frankensteins
No Pax Americana imposed by might makes right

The schools are all crumbling, while mayors push stadiums
kids have no parents - 2 million in jail

Feigning surprise when the poor turn to crime
Some hopeless downtrodden finds joy in a gun

Then children's smashed faces, the littering fingers,
The brain splattered sidewalk 'neath TV news shoes

I want to wake up on the beach
I want to wake up on the beach

Don't want no stupid stadiums; don't want a puppet mayor
Don't want an underclass or 2 mil behind the bars

Don't want perpetual war, don't want no drive-by crime
Don't want police state nor 2 mil behind the bars

Wake Up!!

Why don't you wake up?