Things Never Change

Today I was driving around running a few errands and for whatever reason decided to throw in my Stormtroopers of Death CD - Speak English or Die

SOD was one of the early thrash bands that bordered on punk and death metal. Mostly made up of Anthrax members, they wrote and recorded the album in about 3 days. I'm not sure, but it's even my earliest recollection of a type of music called "grind" which later matured to be even heavier.

You can't take SOD seriously, but I found it ironic that some of the lyrics from their classic hits are still relevant today almost 20 years later (album was released in 1987). I thought I'd share some of these melodies with you, gentle reader, to show you what I mean:

Speak English or Die

You come into this country

You can't get better jobs

Boats and boats and boats of you

Go home you fucking slobs

Selling hot dogs on the corner

Selling papers in the street

Where you come from must be beat

Chorus:

You always make us wait

You are the ones we hate

You can't communicate

Speak English or die

You don't know what I want

You don't know what I need

Why must I repeat myself

Can't you fucking read?

Nice fucking accents

why can't you speak like me?

What's that dot on your head,

Do you need it to see?

And, 20 years earlier this throwback to a more civilized time:

Fuck The Middle East

Fuck the middle east

There's too many problems

They just get in the way

We sure could live without them

They hijack our planes

They raise our oil prices

We'll kill 'em all and have a ball

And end their fucking crisis.

Beirut, Lebanon - won't exist once we're done

Libya, Iran - we'll flush the bastards down the can

Syrian and Shites - Crush their faces with our might

Then Israel and Egypt can live in peace without these dicks!

And of course, with global warming:

No Turning Back

The atmosphere is breaking up

Sunlight starts to burn my skin

Loosing weight, but I swell

Wish I'd die and leave this hell

Cannot stop no turning back

Rays that burn my front and back

Our solar death that we deserve

For being ignorant with our world.

Chorus:

We will die, we will fry

We never learn, so now we burn!

The time has come to start again

But first we all must see the end

By hand of God or man

To oblivion we descent

I think that this is understood

Wouldn't stop it if I could

Time for the human race to die

And give our world a chance to thrive!