There's a prophet on a mountain and he's making up dinner
With long division and writing crop
Anybody can feel like a winner

When it's served up piping hot

But the people aren't looking for a handout

They're America's working corps
Can this be what they voted for?


Let them eat war [x2]
That's how to ration the poor
Let them eat war [x2]


There's an urgent need to feed
Declining pride


From the force to the union shops
The war economy is making new jobs

But the people who benefit most
Are breaking bread with their benevolent hosts


Who never stole from the rich to give to the poor
All they ever gave to them was a war
And a foreign enemy to deplore


Let them eat war [x2]
That's how to ration the poor

Let them eat war [x2]

There's an urgent need to feed

Declining pride

We've got to kill 'em and eat 'em

Before they reach for their checks
Squeeze some blue collars
Let them bleed from their necks

Seize a few dollars from the people who sweat
Cause it's freedom or death and they won't question it
At a job site the boss is god like

Conditioned workhorses park at a stoplight
Seasoned vets with their feet in nets
A stones throw away from a rock fight

But not tonight, feed 'em death

Here comes another ration (feed them death)

Cause they're the finest in the nation (feed them death)
When there's nothing left to feed them
When it's freedom or it's death


Let them eat war [x2]
That's how to ration the poor

Let them eat war [x2]

There's an urgent need to feed