Amerika v. 6.0 (The Best We Can Do)

(album: Jerusalem - 2002)

Look at ya
Yeah, take a look in the mirror now tell me what you see
Another satisfied customer in the front of the line for the American dream
I remember when we was both out on the boulevard
Talking revolution and singing the blues
Nowadays it's letters to the editor and cheating on our taxes
Is the best that we can do
Come on

Look around
There's doctors down on Wall Street
Sharpening their scalpels and trying to cut a deal
Meanwhile, back at the hospital
We got accountants playing God and counting out the pills
Yeah, I know, that sucks that your HMO
Ain't doing what you thought it would do
But everybody's gotta die sometime and we can't save everybody
It's the best that we can do

Four score and a hundred and fifty years ago
Our forefathers made us equal as long as we can pay
Yeah, well maybe that wasn't exactly what they was thinking
Version six-point-oh of the American way
But hey we can just build a great wall around the country club
To keep the riff-raff out until the slump is through
Yeah, I realize that ain't exactly democratic, but it's either them or us and
And it's the best we can do

Yeah, passionely conservative
It's the best we can do

Conservatively passionate
It's the best we can do

Meanwhile, still thinking
Hey, let's wage a war on drugs
It's the best we can do
Well, I don't know about you, but I kinda dig this global warming thing...