Check out a series of 9 sick remixes of NSA vs USA, or download the open source stems from which to construct your own. You can also download the extended dance floor mix from Soundcloud.

NSA vs. USA was written to be a teaching tool as much as a dance track. Below are annotated lyrics, with links to articles and reports you can read to learn more. The first step in helping "build a movement, raising your voice" is to learn history and get informed.

The next is to connect. Reach out if you need help or ideas on how to get involved!

Many thanks to everyone involved in helping enable this project, the media outlets that have covered it, the tremendous music producers from around the world who contributed remixes, the courageous Edward Snowden whose revelations forced a long overdue debate, and -- most of all -- the millions of Americans who, every day, "build a movement, each raising our voice."

NSA vs. USA

Verse #1 (thought crimes, oppression by rotation)

The NSA breaks the law every day

it doesn't matter who you are or what you say

they monitor your phone calls and emails anyway

There's a lesson you’ll learn someday…

…watch what you say.

They spy on your mind, record your calls for posterity

They’re the authorities, here to keep us safe…

Until the boot ends up on your face.

NSA CHORUS

It's the NSA against the Constitution

We the people are the ones our government is abusing.

We can force any agency to make a new choice

when we build a movement, each raising our voice.

Verse #2 (lies, NSA reach, FISA, military-industrial complex)



too large for them to calculate, they sigh they lie about the numbers of Americans watched -- immense,too large for them to calculate, they sigh

a self-serving lie by the government’s eye

computing power unmatched in history

it's insanity how large the hubris looms

the government's watching you in the bathroom

and they lie about it at every opportunity

sustained abuses of every community.

Unity across Washington DC:

all three branches against you and me.

did everything he could to entrench the Bush Legacy

A complex composed of military, industry

rising in the wings for generations, growing

a crisis in democracy sowing.

The future's at stake. You can start by knowing

NSA CHORUS

Verse #3 (Palmer Raids, COINTELPRO)

For a hundred years, since World War I

the FBI versus free speech has held the gun

Constitutional rights on the run

the Palmer raids the first but not the last one

Fast forward 40 years to the real red scare

They were everywhere. They knew what you wore to bed

What does it mean to monitor thoughts?

Spying means a lot more than watching what you bought

it's the Feds always knowing what you’ve got in your head

not only whoever with whom you share your bed

But whether you're compliant or a threat instead

A head, like MLK, to be " neutralized ."

That's the word the FBI used: decades of lies

exposed, revealed as institutionalized

Beyond trying to drive Reverend King to suicide,

and those lies go all the way up the chain of command.

The Director, the head honcho, the man,

claims his lies were unplanned and that he didn't understand

FBI CHORUS

It's the FBI against the Constitution

We the people are the ones our government is abusing.

We can force any agency to make a new choice

when we build a movement, each raising our voice.

Verse 4* (Snowden, secrecy, Congress, budget)

How would a Patriot act, in fact? He'd drag Congress out back , and beat it with a bat. Like Revere rode through the streets, warning of attack, Snowden, 250 years later, back again the alarm. You can bet the farm that the agencies on democracy inflict harm, hiding secret crimes -- works like a charm! Congressional dysfunctionality far and wide go the attacks on cyberspace and the telephone system , every call that you place monitored: caller, receiver, profile, race, ideology, temperament, sexual taste Noticed a budget crisis? Heres the waste: billions every year to our country debase. Don't settle for half ass, keeping spying in place. The agencies need to be erased.

Acronym CHORUS

Agencies against the Constitution

We the people are the ones our government is abusing.

We can force any acronym to make a new choice

when we build a movement, each raising our voice.

Verse #5 (Thought crimes, COINTELPRO, corruption, DHS)

Some fools think Edward Snowden is a traitor

But they ignore everything that happened later:

We’re talking ‘bout corruption in the capital for shizzle.

Democracies fizzle when their people are watched

that's why the NSA's got to be stopped,

and the FBI too. Don't forget what they do.

Entire agencies arrayed against you,

setting in motion predictable plot twists,

arresting democracy to bind her wrists.

The constitutional coup already happened: it's

We must all resist…or we'll be history

Closing CHORUS

Agencies against We the People

Don’t stoop, don’t grovel to no government steeple.

We can force our government to make a new choice

when we build a movement, each raising our voice.