hannah spiro: Music

• MP3 play whole song, hi-fi (broadband)
• MP3 play whole song, lo-fi (modem)

a little bird told me maybe this country isn't what it's cracked up to be. but it still looks cracked up, right down the middle -- divided folks on right and left wings.

but we've got our reasons, or so i've heard -- but not from that little bird. i heard it from the tv screen. we got our reasons, that i can't yet glean...

cause every time i turn on the tv, i usually just see sex and death. while guns are shooting, plastic women announce the damage with one breath and then i change the channel to see that absolutely nothing's wrong. and they're not really killing them; they're helping them along...

but reckless men won't help who they don't love. so do they really love them, and if they did, would they use guns? great big guns...

this kid i know, he's gonna go. he's gonna go fight cause he's got nowhere else to go. he'll export democracy by shooting guns, and shooting parents, and making orphans.

and that's why every time i turn on the tv, all you see is sex and death. while guns are shooting, plastic women announce the damage with one breath and they do that just to distract you, to make you think that nothing's wrong, so they can keep on killing them, and sing their bloody war song...

but reckless men won't help who they don't love. so do they really love them, and if they did, would they use guns? great big guns...

now bombs are blowing, phones are ringing. the president, he keeps on singing. now all the world is looking 'round, they say "what the hell is going down?" we don't get it, nor does france. this country's caught without our pants. let's pull 'em up and stop the war, cause no one knows what it is for...

until then, every time you turn on the tv, all you'll see is sex and death. while guns are shooting, plastic women announce the damage with one breath. and when you change the channel to see that absolutely nothing's wrong, sorry to burst that bubble, but that bubble was bursting all along.

cause reckless men don't help who they don't love. so do they really love them? and if they did, would they use guns? great big guns...