A Slap in the Face

Rand Paul also quoted a Pink Floyd song lyric from the song WISH YOU WERE HERE.

And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange A walk on part in the war? For a lead role in a cage?

A SLAP IN THE FACE

Were we willing to trade the beauty

Of the one country pure in pride

For a life protected from terror

Should we have surrendered, lied down, and died?

Who will our next hero be?

Or will the ghosts of terror consume us

Is the price to be our liberty?

Is the government just an opportunist?

I can see a future barren and bleak

As this third world country is now our own

No longer pursuing the happiness we'd seek

From this poverty that has grown

Who to thank for all this protection

From the threats faced in a war torn world

Now that we live subjected to invasive inspection

Too scared to show our flag unfurled?

As we walk head down among the ashes

In a country for true freedom we always yearned

Poor but equal in all our classes

Life we knew had crashed and burned

It is We the People who let them win

And allowed our liberty to be snatched

In apathy we let the socialists in

And supplied the stone that struck their match