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ROCKIN’ BAGHDAD

[Troops hear the big beat in Bag-town]

A military spokesman spoke somewhere today about a roadside bomb
A military spokesman said all he could say about a car bomb blast

Shiite Muslims blasted overnight, rockin’ Baghdad
Smoke is rising they’ve set the town ablaze, rockin’ Baghdad

Rockin’ Baghdad until they cut us loose
Rockin’ Baghdad but I wonder what’s the use?

RPG’s wailing somewhere in the night, rockin’ Baghdad
Grab your courage brothers, might is never right, rockin’ Baghdad

The CIA is saying what you want to hear, rockin’ Baghdad
The army poster sells a wonderful career, rockin’ Baghdad

I LOVE YOU FELLOW CITIZEN

[Thanks to Damon Runyon & H.L. Mencken]

We’re easy to excite, hard to dislike
We’re serious, self-conscious and
Full of strange desire

We’re easy to fool, yet, we invented cool
We’re insecure and innocent and always
Preaching to the choir

I love you fellow citizen for who you think you are
When you’re right you go critical, so far, so far, so far

There’s nothing on our minds, just on our big behinds
We’re gaudy and we’re showy and we’re cheap, but
Our motives are the best

We’re howling with the pack, we’ll stab you in the back
We’re sickos and we’re con-men
When we’re dead we’re gonna get some rest

I love you fellow citizen for who you think you are
When you’re wrong you’re just miserable, so far, so far, so far

We need an enemy, it could be you, it could be me
We’re moral and horrible and yet it’s
For the public good

We’re always so bizarre, we love an open bar
We’re searchers and we’re preachers, yeah,
We’re so misunderstood

I love you fellow citizen for who you think you are
When you’re kind you are mystical, so far, so far, so far

ANGRY AND STRANGE

[Wake up to the Novus Ordo Seclorum]

This place is angry and strange, it used to be the US of A
It’s making me sick, it happened so quick, one day when I was looking away

I was tuned into the FM sound loop, when the whole damn country changed
It ain’t so hot, playing classic rock, in a country that’s angry and strange

Now instead of Peter Frampton, the evangelical boys put the clamps on
The unaware and lost while they’re dancin’
My country has changed from A-OK, my country has changed to angry and strange

There’s a federal warrant for Jennifer Aniston, banned herewith from any further action
Like Isaac Newton banned from subtraction
My country has changed from just okay, my country has changed to angry and strange

Say god made us all and the monkey’s paw
Up against the truth up against the wall
Say god made us all and the monkey’s paw
Up against the truth up against the wall