'B' Movie (Intro, Poem, Song)

Well, the first thing I want to say is: Mandate my ass!
 Because it seems as though we've been convinced that 26% of the registered voters, not even 26% of the American people, but 26% of the registered voters form a mandate or a landslide
 21% voted for Skippy and 3, 4% voted for somebody else who might have been running
 But, oh yeah, I remember
 In this year that we have now declared the year from Shogun to Reagan, I remember what I said about Reagan, I meant it
 Acted like an actor
 Hollyweird
 Acted like a liberal
 Acted like General Franco when he acted like governor of California, then he acted like a Republican
 Then he acted like somebody was going to vote for him for president
 And now we act like 26% of the registered voters is actually a mandate
 We're all actors in this I suppose
 What has happened is that in the last 20 years, America has changed from a producer to a consumer
 And all consumers know that when the producer names the tune, the consumer has got to dance
 That's the way it is
 We used to be a producer - very inflexible at that, and now we are consumers and, finding it difficult to understand
 Natural resources and minerals will change your world
 The Arabs used to be in the 3rd World
 They have bought the 2nd World and put a firm down payment on the 1st one
 Controlling your resources we'll control your world
 This country has been surprised by the way the world looks now
 They don't know if they want to be Matt Dillon or Bob Dylan
 They don't know if they want to be diplomats or continue the same policy - of nuclear nightmare diplomacy
 John Foster Dulles ain't nothing but the name of an airport now
 The idea concerns the fact that this country wants nostalgia
 They want to go back as far as they can - even if it's only as far as last week
 Not to face now or tomorrow, but to face backwards
 And yesterday was the day of our cinema heroes riding to the rescue at the last possible moment
 The day of the man in the white hat or the man on the white horse - or the man who always came to save America at the last moment - someone always came to save America at the last moment - especially in "
 B" movies
 And when America found itself having a hard time facing the future, they looked for people like John Wayne
 But since John Wayne was no longer available, they settled for Ronald Reagan and it has placed us in a situation that we can only look at -like a "
 B" movie
 Come with us back to those inglorious days when heroes weren't zeros
 Before fair was square
 When the cavalry came straight away and all-American men were like Hemingway to the days of the wondrous "
 B" movie
 The producer underwritten by all the millionaires necessary will be Casper "
 The Defensive" Weinberger - no more animated choice is available
 The director will be Attila the Haig, running around frantically declaring himself in control and in charge
 The ultimate realization of the inmates taking over at the asylum
 The screenplay will be adapted from the book called "
 Voodoo Economics" by George "
 Papa Doc" Bush
 Music by the "
 Village People" the very military "
 Macho Man."
 Company!!!"
 Macho, macho man!"
 Two-three-four."
 He likes to be
 well, you get the point."
 Huuut!
 Your left!
 Your left!
 Your left, right, left, right, left, right...!"
 A theme song for saber-rallying and selling wars door-to-door
 Remember, we're looking for the closest thing we can find to John Wayne
 Clichés abound like kangaroos - courtesy of some spaced out Marlin Perkins, a Reagan contemporary
 Clichés like, "itchy trigger finger" and "tall in the saddle" and "riding off or on into the sunset." Clichés like, "
 Get off of my planet by sundown!" More so than clichés like, "he died with his boots on." Marine tough the man is
 Bogart tough the man is
 Cagney tough the man is
 Hollywood tough the man is
 Cheap steak tough
 And Bonzo's substantial
 The ultimate in synthetic selling: A Madison Avenue masterpiece - a miracle - a cotton-candy politician... Presto!
 Macho!
 Macho, macho man!"
 Put your orders in America
 And quick as Kodak your leaders duplicate with the accent being on the dupes - cause all of a sudden we have fallen prey to selective amnesia - remembering what we want to remember and forgetting what we choose to forget
 All of a sudden, the man who called for a blood bath on our college campuses is supposed to be Dudley "
 God-damn" Do-Right?
 You go give them liberals hell Ronnie." That was the mandate to the new Captain Bligh on the new ship of fools
 It was doubtlessly based on his chameleon performance of the past: as a Liberal Democrat
 As the head of the Studio Actor's Guild, when other celluloid saviors were cringing in terror from Mc
 Carthy, Ron stood tall
 It goes all the way back from Hollywood to hillbilly
 From Liberal to libelous, from "
 Bonzo" to Birch idol, born again
 Civil rights, women's rights, gay rights: ...it's all wrong
 Call in the cavalry to disrupt this perception of freedom gone wild
 God damn it, first one wants freedom, then the whole damn world wants freedom
 Nostalgia, that's what we want...: the good ol' days, when we gave'em hell
 When the buck stopped somewhere and you could still buy something with it
 To a time when movies were in black and white, and so was everything else
 Even if we go back to the campaign trail, before six-gun Ron shot off his face and developed hoof-in-mouth
 Before the free press went down before full-court press, and were reluctant to review the menu because they knew the only thing available was
 Crow
 Lon Chaney, our man of a thousand faces: no match for Ron
 Doug Henning does the make-up; special effects from Grecian Formula 16 and Crazy Glue; transportation furnished by the David Rockefeller of Remote Control Company
 Their slogan is, "
 Why wait for 1984?
 You can panic now
 and avoid the rush."
 So much for the good news...
 As Wall Street goes, so goes the nation
 And here's a look at the closing numbers: racism's up, human rights are down, peace is shaky, war items are hot
 The House claims all ties
 Jobs are down, money is scarce, and common sense is at an all-time low on heavy trading
 Movies were looking better than ever, and now no one is looking, because we're starring in a "
 B" movie
 And we would rather had
 John Wayne
 We would rather had
 John Wayne
 You don't need to be in no hurry
 You ain't never really got to worry
 And you don't need to check on how you feel
 Just keep repeating that none of this is real
 And if you're sensing, that something's wrong
 Well just remember, that it won't be too long
 Before the director cuts the scene
 yea."
 This ain't really your life
 Ain't really your life
 Ain't really ain't nothing but a movie."