WEAPONS

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CHAPTER 1
1 There is a weapon called the pen,
2 Which used to be amightier than the sword,
3 Until it ran out of bink,
4 And lost its cpoint,
5 And dretired to an empty life.
6 We found it where you left it,
7 And picked it off the ground.
8 We stropped it to a razor's edge:
9 Now we're armed and making plans.

CHAPTER 2
1 There is a weapon called ridicule,
2 eWhich once was used to deflate pretense,
3 And haul the absurd to earth.
4 Then the fpretenders made life the fool,
5 And they ridiculed plain gcommon sense,
6 To defend the pose that hearth was absurd,
7 iAnd existence itself the pretense.
8 But that was before,
9 jWhen the laugh was on us,
10 And now the tables are turned.
11 Ridicule is our weapon of choice,
12 kAnd we're laughing out loud in your face.

CHAPTER 3
1 There is a weapon called passionate faith,
2 Which our lancestors used to forge a life,
a.Gnt.13.12-13
b.Dav.16.2-7
c.FnJ.11.7
d.FnJ.8.5-6
e.Pnot.9.1-5
Pnot.34.1-5
Pnot.54.1-5
f.Wil.24.1
g.You.4.3-4
h.Vin.2.1-3
i.FnJ.2.12-15
j.Hill.R.15
k.Vin.40.2-4
l.Name.4.10-13
m.Pnot.55.1-5
n.Pnot.27.1-5
o.Bds.7.2-5
p.Wil.12.14-24
q.Psom.23.14-16
r.Yks.140.11-13
s.Pnot.22.1-5
t.Ira.23.15-18
u.Cen.6.1-14
v.They.7.7-11
w.Forg.14.8-10
x.Psp.3.6
y.Drex.3.7
3 Out of deserts and seacoasts and plains,
4 But the fire burned out,
5 mIn a trench in France,
6 And faith became a nbig joke.
7 Then we came along,
8 And found faith in a slum,
9 Still sparking,
10 And shedding some light.
11 Now it's a fire,
12 oA raging flame,
13 That we'll use to burn,
14 You petrified pforest down.

CHAPTER 4
1 There is a weapon called courage,
2 Which used to ennoble the race,
3 Till courage got qdrowned in a tidal wave,
4 Made of rterrors and strials and ttears.
5 But then there were punks,
6 Who tried mouth-to-mouth,
7 And courage stood up and took stock.
8 We're no longer afraid,
9 Of you or your ubrains,
10 Or the vwisdom that yellowed your back

CHAPTER 5
1 There is a weapon called frontal attack,
2 Which used to turn mice into wmen,
3 xUntil the day that all men were mice,
4 With ynone left to lead the charge.
5 But then there were rats,
6 Who called themselves punks,