on the day all the democrats won ndid you sigh and say our work is done? ndid you feel at all angry or shocked nthat all your dreams could fit in a box? non the day that they took back the house ndid the homeless find shelter at last? nwas it one man who stole their dignity? nor all those laws that the democrats passed? nand on the day that they counted the votes ndid you drive your car to the polls? ndid you think that the wars would just end nif we elected a few different men? nwhen they told you this time things would change ndid you feel hopeful or mostly afraid? nand what made you think it was true nafter the lies that the last ones told you? nif you think this is how history's made nthat it was lincoln who freed all the slaves nthen why do you get out of bed nif all of your heroes are dead? ncuz on the day it comes tumbling down nwhile they're weeping and stumbling around nlet's hope that we've built something new nand that it started inside me and you ncuz when the last gears have fallen to rust ni'll be reaching for you through the dust nthere'll be no time to talk right or wrong nwe'll just wonder how it took so long nbecause on the day nagasaki was bombed nkids were singing this very same song