Mourning in America - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

Shhhh--A white face in a white crowd

The day, it starts, and it gets harder just to stand out

Someone everyone organically can hang with

Or someone cynically manipulating language

Whoever told you that we needed you to be this?

We’ve all been sold a bill of goods if we believe it

Another warning from the well of true believers--

There will be mourning in America, and we say…

Hey!

Hey!

Hey!

You summon ghosts we tried to bury in their white shrouds

With burning cross and bloody crescent in the White House

You come on something like the faces I remember--

1980, Mississippi rising from the ash and embers

Never, now, can I imagine me forgiving you

Never, now, can I imagine how to live with you

Another warning from the lake of people bleeding--

There will be mourning in America if you keep it up…

Hey!

Hey!

Hey!

Up from the sultry air of the South of a time gone by

To your mercurial mouth

And where the busses in Boston that have idled for years

Ride the line to Orange County and the fare is the fears

Of the long manipulated and the wilfully dumb

You better watch what you ask for

'Cause someday, it might just come