Just Because
we cranked up the old calliope
dragged out the dancing bear but he seems to have lost the stomach for the show business life and where is the girl with the endless smile and the skimpy little costume? where's the big wheel we're supposed to strap her to? where is the knife? people put your hands together let's have a big round of applause for the empty stage beneath the spotlight just because just because just because wise folk studied the ancient texts they read between what's in between the lines and for some of our deepest spiritual ills they found a remedy ah, but the words of wisdom were proclaimed at a most inopportune time they were drowned out by the laugh track of a situation comedy people put your hands together let's have a big round of applause for the empty glow of the TV screen just because just because just because there's a lot of us now so dismayed look around, it's not hard to see why with the dollars for bombs and not books while the Blackhawks and predator drones fill the skies and the smokescreen voices go on and on about "No Child Left Behind" would that include the ones who forage for food among the scatterbombs? or the ones who step on the land mines? people put your hands together let's have a big round of applause for the empty place in our collective heart just because just because just because people put your hands together let's have a big round of applause for the empty place in our collective heart just because just because just because just because just because just because just because just because just because |
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