A Few Words In Defense of My Country
Randy Newman

I'd like to say

A few words

In defense of our country

Whose people aren't bad

Nor are they mean

Now, the leaders we have

While they're the worst that we've had

Are hardly the worst

This poor world has seen

Let's turn history's pages, shall we?

Take the Caesars, for example

Why, with the first few of them

They were sleeping with their sister, stashing little boys in swimming pools, and burning down the city

And one of 'em, one of 'em appointed his own horse to be Counsel of the Empire

That's like vice president or something

That's not a very good example right now, is it?

But here's one:

Spanish Inquisition

That's a good one

Put people in a terrible position

I don't even like to think about it

Well, sometimes I like to think about it

Just a few words

In defense of our country

Whose time at the top

Could be coming to an end

Now, we don't want their love

And respect at this point's pretty much out of the question

But in times like these

We sure could use a friend

Hitler

Stalin

Men who need no introduction

King Leopold of Belgium, that's right

Everyone thinks he's so great

Well, he owned the Congo

He tore it up too

Took the diamonds

Took the silver

Took the gold

You know what he left 'em with?

Malaria

You know, a president once said, The only thing we have to fear is fear itself

Now it seems like we're supposed to be afraid

It's patriotic, in fact

Color-coded

What we supposed to be afraid of?

Why, of being afraid

That's what terror means, doesn't it?

That's what it used to mean

You know, it pisses me off a little that this Supreme Court's gonna outlive me

Couple young Italian fellas and a brother on the Court now too

But I defy you, anywhere in the world, to find me two Italians as tight ass as the two Italians we got

And as for the brother

Well, Pluto's not a planet anymore either

The end of an empire

Is messy at best

And this empire's ending

Like all the rest

Like the Spanish Armada

Adrift on the sea

We're adrift in the land of the brave

And the home of the free

Goodbye

Goodbye

Goodbye

Goodbye


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