A Snake Under Every Stone

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Lyric

there once was an army doctor, the army would prefer to leave his name unknown 
they sent him to see their black sites, then their cover was blown 
he left administrations 
when he saw cruel interrogations 
that left a snake under every stone 

he met at the Deep Creek cabin with Lashbrook, and Gottlieb like a dark Thoreau 
to ease his troubled concience, the gimp poured him a stiff cointreau 
Frank was a crack 
on the government track 
to keep a snake under every stone 

the man had made his mind up, so they set him up on the 10th floor of the Statler Hotel 
he tossed his cash and wallet there, did he know that the room was a death-row cell? 
when he dropped from the brink 
his wife she dropped into drink 
to hide the snakes under every stone 

His son gave up the best years of his life, he knew he had to be tough 
his father's death was not a suicide, but the knowledge was not enough 
his thirst for justice burned 
he left no stone unturned 
and found a snake under every stone 

Cheney wrote to Rumsfeld of holding down the fort 
"the Olsons held a conference, we have to keep them out of court 
if the story should break 
our secret's at stake, 
the snake under every stone" 

700 doctors stolen away from the Nuremburg trials 
the allies fixed their now invisible sins with a paperclip on their files 
their morality was sick 
so, with Rummy and Dick, 
they kept a snake under every stone 

43 million dollars to the Taliban in May '01 
two months after they vandalized the Buddhas of Bamiyan 
they left no copies 
but they kept down the poppies 
and the snake under every stone 

They needed a new Pearl Harbor for their New American Century 
based on their twisted vision of military strength and moral clarity 
the walking wounded's hell 
when the towers fell 
was there a snake under every stone?