Khmer Rouge lyrics

The only enemy greater

Than a foreign invader

Is the one found at home

So there is none greater

An adversary than ourselves

Even in a war of alliances

Where saturation bombing is

That pounds the ground

Left only are rubble and dust

And those who would take

In Democratic Kampuchea

There arose a general from war

And tyranny as its consequence

A face that was full of hopes

But the assurances were lies

The Red Khmer ones came

Filled with socialists ideals

We give, you take, communists

The killing fields erasing all

Over two million absurd endings

To make this new beginning

In the Year Zero came a plan

Social engineering, genocide

The end of freedom of men

Even The Buddha outlawed

By any means desired, not fair

They were executed, deprived

Disease, starvation, labors

Slain in the fields by hard hand

Pickaxes, for bullets cost money

A poor trade for a life's value

This classless agrarian society

This heinous validation of cruelty

Where is democracy in death

Feared education or status

Such a small man, Pol Pot

Such selfish ideals manifested

Those that would intimidate

They must be extinguished

So dissention is murdered

The only driving force ceasing

A foreign invader ambitious

That brought judgment select

Upon those against humanity

Their interests, themselves

Silent graves cannot cry out

To plead for justice never had

What nobility is there here

When a criminal passes on

Of but aged natural causes

Choeung Ek's ghosts walk on

And too, plus three hundred

The great with the meager

Found life's unbearable truth

In the barbarism of little lies