All The King's Horses

Don't lecture me
 Don't hit me with that stick
 I know how easily
 The little lies run off your lip
 I know that jerking knee
 I know the bully-legged kick
 It don't take genius
 To see people driven by the whip
 And as we run downhill
 I think that we must love disaster
 Because there's so much bad will
 Unhappy ever after
 And it makes me look
 Between the crying and the laughter
 Me and my kindhearted eyes
 This country's gone to hell
 And we just vote reactionary
 Too many times to the well
 All the mines are full of dead canaries
 Everybody's pain
 Every voice is hoarse and dull
 As the reptile brain
 Uncoils inside the skull
 Watch it roll downhill
 Ah there's nothing like a good disaster
 There's so much bad will
 Unhappy ever after
 But I have to look
 Between the crying and the laughter
 Me and my kindhearted eyes
 Oh give me whiskey
 Give me water
 Give me something good to say
 Hope that fills the morning
 Like a songbird in an alleyway
 Give me something more
 Than counted chickens on the Sabbath day
 Jesus has left the building
 Carrying faith away
 Tear the heroes down
 Pull the posters off the wall
 Yesterday's underground
 In a delete bin at the mall
 It got so desperate
 All the king's horses and his men
 Forgot their history
 They stuck the egg back on the wall again
 And it rolled downhill
 Oh people love disaster
 'Cause there's so much bad will
 Unhappy ever after
 But I have to look
 Between the crying and the laughter
 Me and my kindhearted eyes
 Me and my kindhearted eyes
 Me and my kindhearted eyes