How Long

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one’s slow & one’s grumpy they live in the white house they have lots of parties the fun never ends let’s make sure when the day finally comes time to move out they don’t hand the keys off to one of their friends and how long are we gonna put up with this how long can we keep getting kicked in the head come back and beg for more this renegade frat boy is hazing the country his cronies and yes men all cheering him on when we beg him to stop he just pulls off our dignity pins down our arms ’til our spirit is gone and how long..... the Miller’s next door, we don’t see them much lately their kids used to play ’til the light disappeared and the oldest one, James, so proud in his uniform let’s see, he would’ve been 20 this year still you send off our boys with a patriot noise and you can’t even show up on weekends to serve you strike up a war to settle a score yeah you know what it’s for and you’ve got your nerve and how long.... what happened to leaders who actually cared for their places in history, cared for the truth now we get dimwits who gloat over gimlets with kerosene eyes and hearts cold as duluth and how long... i’d so love to not feel so constantly twisted up heated, clench-fi sted and chronically mad no better than those dealing the blows and spending the time i’ll wish later i had when you care for the cause, you act to protect it when you care for the truth, you do not correct it when you care for the earth, you try not to neglect it when you care about light, you help to refl ect it history’s memory is snap photographic and history’s eyes have the deadliest aim but history’s heart will be far from empathic when it fi nally gets to uncover your game and how long.... one’s slow & one’s grumpy they live in the white house they have lots of parties the fun never ends let’s make sure when the day fi nally comes time to move out they don’t hand the keys off to one of their friends kenny white...piano