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Incessant buzzing overhead
Joystick click trail of dead
Automated imperialist
dealing death to the drone hit list

Prey stalked below by the Predator drone
Hellfire missile creating carnage so vile

Hitting hospitals, weddings, funerals, the civilians killed called collateral
They even come back with a double tap bombing that procures deaths of rescuers
Depraved indifference to the innocents killed by orders of American presidents

Prey stalked below by the predator drone
Hellfire missile creating carnage so vile

From Waziristan to Afghanistan, Gaza, Somalia, Yemen now in flame
Fear the buzzing noise of empire’s new toys that they now deploy to hi-tech acclaim
Flying death robot, look at what it’s brought: wars remotely fought like it’s a video game

Raytheon and General Atomics continue to profit
On Terror Tuesdays they approve murders the White House saw fit

Nobel prize for aerial assassinations brought on oppressed nations
Sentinel, Global Hawk, surveilling the people used to plot more evil
Targets picked, no trial, signature strikes deprive countless victims of their lives

At Creech they pilot drones like it was playing PlayStation
So that Africom can bomb for imperial domination

We become the killers by remote control relinquishing our soul
For what is left when you accept this distant method delivering death on
innocents. Targeted by empire in our name by standing by we’re to blame

So will we now acquiesce to distant death to those subject to
(the) automated imperialist drone strike hit list? Or will we resist?

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from Anti​-​Imperialist Song Cycle, released November 19, 2021
David Pearson, composer (punkinthe1990s.com)
Amanda Zory, soprano (www.amandazory.com)
Walter Aparicio, piano (www.walteraparicio.com)

Composed in January 2021
Recorded August 2021
Recorded and mixed by Gregory Kostroff
Mastered by Matt Barba
Released November 19, 2021

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David "Fearsome" Pearson is a composer, saxophonist, and music historian. HIs first book, Rebel Music in the Triumphant Empire: Punk Rock in the 1990s United States, was published by Oxford University Press in 2021: punkinthe1990s.com. He is a member of the Afrofunk band Digital Diaspora: digitaldiaspora.bandcamp.com. ... more

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