Blowback Lyrics - Asian Dub Foundation

Step back from the blow back 

Step back from the blow back 

Step back from the blow back 

Plans that were hatched with the strings still attached 

See there's always a catch when you're livin' through a blowback 

You're wonderin' why you need places to hide 

Keep one eye to the sky when you're waiting for the blowback 

Sink into the mud watch out for the scud 

'Cos oil is thicker than blood in the world of the blowback 

From ally to madman, from client to badman 

From Gomorrah to Saddam starring in the blowback 

Invisible sins, invisible kings 

The shit we're in, gonna drown in the spin 

Permanent warfare, burning up welfare 

Add up, add up, their share of the hardware 

Rights disposed off, government gloves off 

Flick of the wrist, summary justice 

Feel the kiss of the U.S. fist 

Hollywood, Hollywood tinsel this 

Fanning the flames of fanatical fervor 

One bad turn always deserves another 

Covert and subvert and secret operation 

Still sufferin' the consequence of active inaction 

Tunneling through mountains, building networks of caves 

Forty million dollars for forty thousand graves 

Collateral damage and friendly fire 

Talking the talk of the undercover empire 

Live and direct from the undercover empire 

Live and direct from the undercover empire 

Live and direct, live and direct 

Live and direct from the undercover empire 

What's the rules of engagement? 

What's the price of containment? 

Can we come to an arrangement? 

Make a buck off the blowback 

They don't know about this flow 

Watch your pipe line not your show 

It's McWorld and fries to go 

Starring in the blowback 

One sided triangle 

Squarin' the circle 

Pentagonal diagonal 

Caught out in the blowback 

Is it really all over? 

Are we living in end time? 

Don't we know that there's no time? 

Step back from the blowback 

Control, we now have air superiority 

Their only plane was the one we sold them last week 

As leaflets, food parcels explode into nails 

Bush chokes on a pretzel and Clinton exhales 

Sayin' cool down India, cool down Pakistan 

Here comes your new billion dollar air squadron 

Laying down a pipeline through Kazakstan 

This ends this broadcast live from absurdistan 

Live and direct from London, absurdistan 

Live and direct from London, absurdistan 

Step back from the, step back, step back from the blow, blowback 

Step back pushin', step back pushin' 

Step back pushin', from the blowback