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Useless Spending
Analysis of the Song "Boom!" by System of a Down

"The strangest thing about this impending war is that the people -- the REAL majority who make up the population of this country and the world -- do not truly want to go to war," said Michael Moore. (Goliath)

System of a Down released their album "Steal This Album" in the year 2002: a year after the 9/11 attacks. Many of their songs describe how the band feels about the current issues in the world. One of their songs, "Boom!" protested the war in Iraq. It protests about how the government spends countless amounts of the taxpayers' money on bombing when it should be put to better use. People all over the world are starving or are ill and instead of using the money to save those less fortunate third world countries, the government is using it to destroy them. The lyrics are mostly self-explanatory with the lead singer, Serj Tankian, asking, "Why must we kill our own kind?" near the end of the song.......

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