Played your anthem like I wasn't there
For the father daughter dance
From the boondocks of Egypt
To the nosebleeds at Calvary
Recite your history of oppression, babe
There's no doubting the devotion
My ancestors had for yours
Now we've got all the love to pay for
Like a thousand different
Around the peep show slot
The boss wants to be anonymous
The talent wants to be seen
We weren't paying for your body, Lord
We were paying you to leave
Stretching from Reno to Rome
Listen, Cherry, I know you love me
But say you love me 'fore you go
Val Kilmer had a wall-length
Mirror Mirror just over there
Well, I'm sure he's someone else now
Just waiting for the flood
And maybe Mac the Conqueror
With the severed head of love
I've seen him wearing aviators
Stalking airports 'cross the bardo
Everything's in transition
Will ever see the promised land
I see you, you student debtors
In the watchtower overhead
Cryin', "Dad, look what they did"
Even their romance made us
But now things keep getting worse
While staying so eerily the same
Come build your burial grounds
But you won't kill death that way
I don't know 'bout you, but
And give you the future in exchange
but I'll take the love songs
If this century's here to stay
but I'll take the love songs
And the great distance that
