Statues Of TRUTH?© 2001 Jesse SlokumWell, standing right across from Wall Street Out in front of the New York Stock Exchange Try as I might, I just can't clear my mind Of these echoes of Home, HOME on the Range Now, I just got a vision of this spot Way back when it was full of nothing more Than what the will of nature did intend And, I'm just wondering whether or NOT All you go-for-brokers know what's in store Will you wheel and deal right up to the end? By the time that you discover the number Hidden within the name you dare not say The Beast will awaken from it's long slumber And your walls of deceit will fall away Listen, you who have covered up the MAP With all your Barbed-Wire Radar Mountain-Tops And all your deadly submarine oceans Thinking you haven't set yourself a Trap? With all your mushroom cloud missile crops And your feverish holocaust notions Give me back all of my wide open spaces From the mountains right on down to the seas Your statues of truth have broken faces Will you keep lying 'til no one agrees? You have your New York City cheese-cake smile Like a TV screen instead of a face Painted just like a bandit packs a gun You may be sitting pretty for a while Drinking and thinking that you've left no trace Just like a phantom horse out on the run By the time that you discover the number Hidden within the name you dare not say The Beast will awaken from it's long slumber And your walls of deceit will fall away You have even soiled the breeze and the leaves With what you say goes nature one better And now the verdict is swiftly coming When your victims die, no one even grieves Your swear you live the law by the letter Why do you fret, now that we here drumming? But the Marching is not on to war this time Although that is what many are thinking If we thought we did commit a perfect crime, It's the wine of wrath we will be drinking If we thought we did commit a perfect crime, It's the wine of wrath we will be drinking To Song Menu! |