BY THE LIGHTNING THAT DESTROYS, THE EYES OF ORPHANS SHED, & THE TAINTED BLOOD OF IRRIGATION: WE HUMANS ARE A NASTY LOT

We cannot be sure the flavor of liberty – what it tastes like were it an ice cream, but we sure are familiar with the sound of liberty, especially when it is accompanied by the sweet melody of machine guns.

Regular readers know we love Cracked, the Internet (and adult) equivalent of MAD Magazine. We just had to post a link to this story about the Six National Anthems That Will Make You Tremble With Fear.

You betcha. I've cherry picked some lyrics, but you really should read the whole article. It'll make you shiver.

ALGERIA

• "We swear by the lightning that destroys, By the streams of generous blood being shed"
• "When we spoke, none listened to us, So we have taken the noise of gunpowder as our rhythm, And the sound of machine guns as our melody"

HUNGARY

• "No freedom's flowers return, from the spilt blood of the dead, and the tears of slavery burn, which the eyes of orphans shed."

TURKEY

• "I'm like the roaring flood; powerful and independent, I'll tear apart mountains, exceed the heavens and still gush out!"
• "Render your chest as armor and your body as trench!"
• "For only then, shall my fatigued tombstone, if there is one, prostrate a thousand times in ecstasy, and tears of fiery blood shall flow out of my every wound, and my lifeless body shall gush out from the earth like an eternal spirit."

FRANCE

• "The bloody flag is raised, the bloody flag is raised."
• "Do you hear in the countryside, the roar of these savage soldiers, they come right into our arms, to cut the throats of your sons!"
• "May a tainted blood irrigate our furrows!"

I'm all a-flutter with patriotism and, of course, blood lust. Here we thought our political elections were nasty.