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White man in decline
With his thorny crown of empties
Wrapped âround his troubled mind
Sucking on his radio
Pacified by brainless rhetoric in patriotic code
With his mircrowavable last supper
And twelve of his friends
He lifts his wife up over his head before the Super Bowl begins
âHer body broken for you,
Sheâll beat black, sheâll beat blue,
Letâs hope our Cowboys come throughâ¦â
World wonât change if he donât look
Heâs got his hand over his heart
And his head stuck up his hole
What does it profit a man
To gain the whole trailer park and lose his very soul?
Humming, âYou Ainât Whistling Dixie,â a distant look in his eye
The little pointed hood in the closet canât hide the cowardice inside
Now itâs eating him alive
No last rights for naughty boys
Gather round the easy chair
See the white man in decline
Throwing tantrums on the floor
Of the Senate and the House
Holding his breath until heâs blue
âChildren of our mighty country, the poor have stolen your futures
Were gonna steal them back for you.
Come gather âround the banquet table, see how God is on our sideâ¦â
But when they carved up the turkey they found
Only stuffing inside
Pledge allegiance to his flag
Wrap it in a body bagâ¦
See the white man in decline
Shhhâ¦
- Album:
- Notes Falling Slow
- Kennedy Suite
- Wilderness
- One Soul Now
- In The Time Before Llamas
- Open
- Rarities, B-Sides And Slow, Sad Waltzes
- The Trinity Sessions
- Black-Eyed Man
- Lay It Down
- Miles from Our Home
- Miscellaneous
- Pale Sun, Crescent Moon
- The Caution Horses
- The Trinity Session
- Whites off Earth Now!!
- At the End of Paths Taken
- Early 21st Century Blues
- Renmin Park
- Demons