My Country Tis of Thee

My Country Tis of Thee

Strumming in America vagabond country

Too stoned to protect her, who’ll clean this laundry?

What’s your definition of welfare?

A handout or staple, a standard we are capable

Of substantiating the masses like a self provided

Safari guide like parade throw hall passes

Too many of us have skipped our classes

Humans, citizens, cattle or a patchwork of cadavers awaiting our ends

Fear on a loud speaker, volume eleven

And the spinal tap has dripped in the serum

America’s anesthetized from the waist high

Thinking gone absent, spitting in the wind

Eyes seeing rooftops with hands waving

Rancid waters in the streets and freedom is sailing

Mutual funds not so mutual in the return

Bailouts done blanked out the ramifications for some

In the sum of the years digits method computes

Struggling for stamps in a debit card and taxes expand

Choke hold on roles on what can be done when jealousy is done

Wake up and say I will grow and bake my own bread today

Not Barack, not George, not Bill, not Albert gorged

On the buffet of a deficit, some ones kids won’t eat one day

Will it be Malia, Sasha, Barbara, Jenna, or Chelsea?

No, these are daughters of the plenty

Falsified lives and transfigured lines fear like an opiate

Religion from the pulpit of a voting box of the one with the money

To hand out the drops of the elixir to the hands as the mescaline expands

Into the rivers and into the rain the oceans above can’t quite explain

How is this good, this dissociative DXM over and over and over again

Rules into law and the legislature is calling for a draw at dawn

Out on that Whitehouse lawn, pistols and scattershot

Some will live and some will not

Control like dominoes and no body knows

The ramifications of all these body blows

Farmers traded for lawyers, construction for seduction

Market to market from a field to walled off street

ADM commodities, price fixing and shell games

World market thefts and the ten cents that left

Ten million pockets and seven hundred billion burning

In banks of golden sacks to filthy to say no take backs

Returned on June 17^th, not saying what lives beneath

Stories bequeathed to Geithner from Paulson

CEO of Goldman Sachs, what’s your role huh?

Independence drowned in ignorance

Who is your accounting, Enron abscond, the toll’s gone mounting

What can an American expect from our bureaucratic tenement?

Snorting up cocaine and gunpowder in the McDonald's bags

Dispensed drive through compliments

Full of fructose and soybean cow part remnants

Getting high on commercial appeal,

Forgetting the predicament in this meal

Not at home round the table

Families standing on a step ladder unable

To call out the problems just grease up the fat

Slip into that, anesthesia in the vat

Churn it round and drown the holistic view 

Who’s caring for your healthcare, is it you?

Doctors on pay rates, Medicaid moves us through cattle grates

Wouldn’t know where the other foot goes if the insurance company

Didn’t tell me how I was exposed, stop I’m sick, somebody quick

Pull the crip-chord parachute me off this blimp, down to the street

Smash me into minced McDonald's meat

Pre-existing human condition whether I live or can pay

Health care education cost me more to maintain the reservation

My country tis of thee, sweet land for robberies

Swipe this card to help me eat, hike my mortgage out to the street

Barrak just tax us more to maintain the farm

Why not change out the system instead of fake sounding the alarms

Bush bunked out to Bunkport long ago so what’s the sport

In trying to find a way to make ends meet

To tie these mismatched government shoes without shoe strings

The caravan is handed out lefts one term and rights the next

Never a match, never attached, no way to cover this bare foot to this path

Walking in circles, complain to the delicate

Situation of the difference between Louisiana and Connecticut

Harvard to Yale presidential stature prevails,

Levees and oil slicks federal love and throwing bricks

At revolving prison doors and gun crimes pumped up with what lies

When the average man can’t bake his own bread because

The trickle down is snorted up to by another tax rate that doesn’t equate

To the liquidation of the oil milkshake in these olive limbs to grease up the space

Between these class rims kept in a cubby hole for junior to fatten up his bank roll

Mirror, mirror, mirror on the wall what’s the greatest question of them all?

Guess what the man in the mirror can not do,

Is have the government live this life for you

Why are we are trying to promise the sky,

Why are we promising two sets of lives?

If you work for the machine then you get the grease,

If you don’t they you press the olives and are left holding the leaves

Retirement plans, allowing the opt out

Of social security in a fire sale cop out

Why in this nation are their two different boats?

The Titanic is sinking and, W go grab your coat

School teachers, officers, municipal crowns

Unions gone fuming over defined benefit mark downs

Everybody else employed at will, hoping to make it

And retire before their kids are reading their wills

Boomers on the edge, economy is going to fall down

Mystery no, I can hear the sounds rumbling like a pre-quake

To seventy percent of the work force trying to leave the maze

All at once, pulling their assets out the chest

What happens when everybody is trying to sell?

Recession dissention into a lower level of hell

2040 and the budget is consumed entirely by interest, Medicaid and Medicare

How’s going to be left to bare the burden of the debt left on our doorstep?

Lie of a nation gone on vacation, reality TV just a preplanned novelty

What is life? Believe it or not the bachelor didn’t keep her as his wife

Dancing for stars and Idol spotlights wear off and the bills come due

Monday morning working and what skills will you

Bring to the table to bail us out, answers to cancer

Cure all these aids handing out promises on the evening news

In a ballot box parade,

We need one tax system, you pay straight, not social manipulation for

Seven thousand different states,

We need one health care system for one species, humans are humans

Not cast offs to the street, Treat us as one, incentivize health, not who gets paid

Outlaw the defined benefit government retirement plans,

Put social security in the people’s hands

No Doritos or Coke in my kid’s school lunch

Don’t sell out the school for a couple of bucks

Take the U.S. military out of Europe, out of Japan

Why spend the money in peaceful foreign lands

Hold on to fear like a straight jacket, immobilize

The mobilized with a purpose in pride

We are the best and we know the right way

Infant mortality rates going the wrong way

Straight out the womb and the country has got you going sideways

But the doctor made his golf game, so who pays?

Energy grid back from Tesla, haven’t really improved all this mess huh?

Plug in the wind and the sun’s glows, how to connect it, who knows?

But America can teach us how to read and write though

How many years before it all blows?

Oil slick bursting the Macondo,

But quick nobody run to

Barataria bay until the bill comes due

Nobody wants to see what greed can undo

Migrate bird routes disrupted, the white boots have become the hunted

The microbes are feasting on the carcinogens like a Riesling

And the shrimpers gone out of business in needing

Of a reason to go on, the hand out is coming in a slow song

Let’s throw money at the problem, energy crisis abscond them

Remember when we use to make things?

Made in China, oh there are the shoe strings

Maybe I can walk now, two blocks down to the corner

Walk up for my value meal order, pigeon hole living coming up short huh

Worrying about what is to become of my daughter?

This country I am to leave her

America, America what fear will you feed her? 

Honesty in the lines of what can you promise

Calling out bullshit in front of congress

Do what you can and not all this other mess

Please girl go put on your brand new dress.