Smelling Salts

Well you see
part of me
would really like to be the one to tell you
to shop at the Gap
to buy a new sweater
that the quality of life is getting better
but what hurts is the truth
that it's only getting worse
and there'll be nothing for the youth of tomorrow
so don't swallow lies and remember that the promises are hollow when they're made by George Bush
to him
war is a sport
he wasn't even elected
it was up to the courts
to decide
who'd reside
at the top o' the world
and so the story unfurled
when they chose the mad man
Yosemite Sam with his hand on the red button and he aint bluffin'
all for greed
all for oil
all for nothin'
enforcing laws against certain ways of fuckin'
and certain types of smoke
but
Cheney had a stroke
when
Gore won the popular vote

but still
Bush cheated all of us
with some help from his brother Jeb
he's the governor of Florida
and what's more are the
endless allegations of police confrontations to stop black people from votin' throughout the nation
but these things won't be said on your corporate TV stations
instead they'll spread misinformation
use words like "Liberation"
"War"
and "U.S. led occupation"
but they'll always fail to mention that it's illegal

so beware the american eagle.

~Longshaft