VOTE OF CONFIDENCE

by Stan C. Countz, lyricist

I can’t believe how easily
We lie and deceive ourselves
No one takes responsibility
They all point to someone else

The ads on TV are the worse
It makes me feel so sick
Playin’ with words it’s absurd
Shouldn’t be playing politics

There really ought to be a law
Against such obvious deception
It really sticks in my craw
It’s the rule, not the exception

I’ve half a mind to go ahead and vote
The opposite of what each ad expects
Vote “no” where a “yes” should go
Reject what they propose I accept

It’s all a crock; it’s got to stop
The pot should stop calling the kettle black
We need to seek the truth and not be moved
By all the babble and the talk

It’s a bloody battle and it’s not
Just between John and Barach
We don’t need a lot of prattle
We’re not livestock or cattle

Our sons and our daughters
Are being led to the slaughter
There’s so much muckraking
I need a whole lot of water

It’s such a drama; it’s so inane
This nation has gone insane
It’s not just Obama and McCain
We're goin’ down the drain

We need to get back to the good ol’ days
When we loved Babe Ruth and Willy Mays
We all believed that crime never pays
Passed the hat or was that a passin' faze?

Before Vietnam and Watergate
Charlie Manson and Sharon Tate
Before we had to ask our date
If they were gay or straight

We were a nation of farmers and hicks
Played with pickup trucks and pick up sticks
Got our kicks on Route Sixty Six
Playin’ chicken not politics

Have we gone too far for it to be fixed?
If we’ll hit our knees and hit the bricks
If we’ll take our hits and take our licks
Maybe we can fix what’s broken

It won’t be as quick as we were hopin’
But we’ll nip it in the bud if we stay open
Why try to fix it if it ain’t broken?
So let’s stop our bitchin’ and mopin’

We need to get on with fixin’ our life
Marriage is between a husband and wife
Let’s put behind us the stress and strife
Because the truth cuts just like a knife

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