It’s gonna be a close one
I can’t pick it
The Republicrats
or the Texaco Ticket
It the same to me I’m sad to say
Cause either way it’s an Inside Trade
You got compassionate corporatism
Or middle path populism
If you want the same they've got plenty more
It’s what their owners
are paying for
Sound bites for the drug war
Monopolies for the company store
Minimum minimum wage for the working poor
Billions and billions for machines of war
And that brings up
what you and me
are gonna pay for
defense against north Korea,
60 billion for a fake defense
which even if it worked,
it wouldn’t make sense
Whoa folks
remain calm
even if they had the
bomb
They still haven’t got
the means to bring it
And if they did
we sure couldn’t wing it
Proved that 2 out of 3 times
Maybe its time to stop asking
"How do we stop them from bombing
us?"
Time to start asking
"how do we stop them from wanting to?"
When it comes to the
environment
Its time to fire the whole government
Takes a lot of bloody nerve
to sell off half our oil reserve
give in on fuel efficiency,
cause the ones that drive the SUV’s
are the ones that make the big donations
they own the TV And radio stations
And they call themselves environmentalists.
Hah.
Clearly there's something that I’ve missed
The Jolly Green Giant tell the Suits
"give a hoot man
you got to pay to pollute "
Then we got
the war on drugs,
the DEA,
the jack boot Thugs
Telling us to just say no
with a drink in hand
and a cigarettes glow
Either way were gonna have a chief
Who's sucked and blown the magic Spleef
When they say those words
to me
I just say no to hypocrisy
I just say no to the status quo,
I just say no to the quid pro quo
I just say no to corporate shoguns
with Ad Campaigns and stupid slogans
But don’t you think I’m gonna add my
voice
to the clamor over a woman's choice
I believe the party's main attraction
is little more than a big distraction
No president ever knew
what a judicial appointment was gonna do
Take Roe v Wade and Harry Blackman,
nearly made Nixon's a heart attack em
And who would've guessed that
Sandra Oconner would've done
Reagan such a dishonor.
I'd also like to revoke
parole,
on the issue of gun control
we never hear, a real debate,
just
politics of fear and hate
Its fair to say that people die.
But I don’t ask how, rather why
for every violent occurrence,
I see ten people die
for a lack of health insurance
So I’m voting for
a different kind of
protection
In this Y 2 K Election
I’m not gonna trade my voice,
for that so called best/worst choice
That’s a bought and sold democracy,
for a globalized plutocracy
That continues to terrorize
the workers who’d like to organize
WalMart, Nike and Kathy Lee,
Grand old Democrat Party
One party under thumb,
keep em poor and
keep em dumb
Keep em chewing that bubble gum
It's low fat man,
its low cal got no sodium
It’s gonna be a close one
I can’t pick it
The Republicrats or the Texaco Ticket
It's the same to me I’m sad to say
Cause either way it’s an Inside Trade
You can watch your candidates primp and pose,
cast your vote,
hold your nose
or open up your eyes and ears
and vote your hopes and not your fears...... |
