The Toronto Raging Grannies

Songs for the 9/11 Inquiry - May 25, 2004


Security Pretence (Teddy Bears' Picnic) Vancouver RGs (2002)


If you think we have our liberties still
You're in for a big surprise
We're under surveillance everywhere
It's just that they're in disguise
For you and me - as good as we look -
If we protest we're seen as crooks
'cus that's the way they play security pretence.


Added material


If you think governments tell the truth
You're in for a big surprise
They cover up their big mistakes
Until they are caught in lies
Democracy is such a bore
It opens up what's gone before
To change the way they play security pretence.


Change of tune


	CIA and FBI
	They love to sneak and spy 
	And hiding the truth is so much fun.
	CSIS too is in the game
	It's motives are the same
	And it is not the only one.
	Milit'ry intelligence
	In our defence?
	Oxymoron.
	'cus we all know that covert activities
	Threaten everyone
	As long as they play security pretence.


If they think there's nothing that we can do
We'll give them a big surprise
We'll pry and poke and investigate
Until we've exposed those lies.
Democracy will win the day
And secrecy will be passé
So we can stop the game called security pretence.




Towers burning  (London's Burning)

Towers burning, towers burning
What happened, what happened?
Find the answers, find the answers
Why this was not prevented.

Many questions, many questions
Contradictions, contradictions
Will we ever find the answers
Why this was not prevented?

No excuses, no excuses
There must be some consequences
For incompetence or malfeasance
Why this was not prevented.




Who's worried now?    (Who's sorry now?)

Who's worried now? Which sacred cow
Is ready for goring, exposing somehow?
Who paid the freight? For rescue too late?
Deceiving the people and stirring up hate.
Was it for oil? Iraqi soil?
Using Saddam, a convenient foil.
We need to know. Who made it so.
Who should be worried right now.

Who benefits? Makes great profits
From contracts to rebuild what's been bombed to bits?
Who ordered war? What was it for?
Are Saudis or US the real terrorists?
Who's in the loop? Who's in the soup?
Who will be fingered, named in the next scoop?
Will President Bush be given the push?
He must be worried right now.