What goes around comes around That's a time-tested fact That's true in Afghanistan And it's true in Iraq You may have threw the first fist But will you throw the last? Cuz you shot first Now they're shooting back What goes around comes around Cuz you propped up Saddam Now it's U.S. soldiers getting hit with improvised bombs It's not the Baathists, not Al Qaida It's working people's hands Planting the seeds of your destruction What goes around comes around A time-tested fact That was true in Afghanistan And that's true in Iraq You may have threw the first fist But will you throw the last? Cuz you shot first Now they're shooting back What goes around comes around Cuz you prowled from pole to pole Destroying everything you touched For labor, land and gold In the Santa Maria or the Enola Gay You got rich because other people paid What goes around comes around Cuz you can't erase your past You made your wealth from Slavery It's still socially intact But builders can break down everything they've built And you can rest assured that one day they will What goes around comes around A time-tested fact That's true in Afghanistan And that's true in Iraq You may have threw the first fist But will you throw the last? Cuz you shot first Now they're shooting back What goes around comes around And it stings when it hits And your in too deep To not sink with the ship Ain't no excuses to pardon you This world is what you've made it Your bred this hate now gonna have to face it What goes around comes around In such a burst of time Now the world you tried to conquer Is creeping up behind As Mussolini learned before You reap what you sow You will suffer the fate you've imposed