Song | Dark Time in the Revolution |
Artist | Laurie Anderson |
Album | Homeland |
Download | Image LRC TXT |
The market keeps rising up. | |
The big machines control the sea and the air | |
Those big machines, they gotta go somewhere. | |
So we keep calling em up, calling em, calling em up. | |
No matter what. | |
And then those questions come up. | |
Like was the | |
Constitution written in invisible ink? | |
Has everybody here forgotten how to think? | |
Is this great big boat starting to sink? | |
Pinpoint nukes. | |
Ready to fight. | |
Dressed to kill. | |
Sure we're right. | |
Welcome to, welcome to, welcome to the | |
American night. | |
We just keep calling em up, calling em, calling em up. | |
We just keep calling em up, calling em, calling em up. | |
No matter what. | |
You know Tom | |
Paine wrote the first best-seller at a dark time in the | |
Revolution when we were losing and all the soldiers were deserting. | |
Giving up. | |
And the book was called | |
Common Sense and it was really just a long list of questions. | |
And one of the questions was: | |
Does it make common sense for an island to rule a continent? | |
And everybody kind of went hmmm and they signed back up. | |
And today you could ask: | |
Does it make common sense for a country to rule the world? | |
But no matter what your answer, no matter what you think, no matter what you vote for– | |
We just keep calling em up, calling em, calling em up. | |
No matter what. | |
We just keep calling em up, calling em, calling em up. | |
No matter what. | |
We keep callin em up, callin em, callin em up. | |
We keep callin em up, callin em, callin em up. | |
And you thought there were things that had disappeared forever. | |
Things from the | |
Middle Ages. | |
Beheadings and hangings and people in cages. | |
And suddenly they were everywhere. | |
And suddenly they're alright. | |
Welcome to, welcome to, welcome to the | |
American night. | |
We keep callin em up, callin em, callin em up. | |
We keep callin em up, callin em, callin em up. |
The market keeps rising up. | |
The big machines control the sea and the air | |
Those big machines, they gotta go somewhere. | |
So we keep calling em up, calling em, calling em up. | |
No matter what. | |
And then those questions come up. | |
Like was the | |
Constitution written in invisible ink? | |
Has everybody here forgotten how to think? | |
Is this great big boat starting to sink? | |
Pinpoint nukes. | |
Ready to fight. | |
Dressed to kill. | |
Sure we' re right. | |
Welcome to, welcome to, welcome to the | |
American night. | |
We just keep calling em up, calling em, calling em up. | |
We just keep calling em up, calling em, calling em up. | |
No matter what. | |
You know Tom | |
Paine wrote the first bestseller at a dark time in the | |
Revolution when we were losing and all the soldiers were deserting. | |
Giving up. | |
And the book was called | |
Common Sense and it was really just a long list of questions. | |
And one of the questions was: | |
Does it make common sense for an island to rule a continent? | |
And everybody kind of went hmmm and they signed back up. | |
And today you could ask: | |
Does it make common sense for a country to rule the world? | |
But no matter what your answer, no matter what you think, no matter what you vote for | |
We just keep calling em up, calling em, calling em up. | |
No matter what. | |
We just keep calling em up, calling em, calling em up. | |
No matter what. | |
We keep callin em up, callin em, callin em up. | |
We keep callin em up, callin em, callin em up. | |
And you thought there were things that had disappeared forever. | |
Things from the | |
Middle Ages. | |
Beheadings and hangings and people in cages. | |
And suddenly they were everywhere. | |
And suddenly they' re alright. | |
Welcome to, welcome to, welcome to the | |
American night. | |
We keep callin em up, callin em, callin em up. | |
We keep callin em up, callin em, callin em up. |
The market keeps rising up. | |
The big machines control the sea and the air | |
Those big machines, they gotta go somewhere. | |
So we keep calling em up, calling em, calling em up. | |
No matter what. | |
And then those questions come up. | |
Like was the | |
Constitution written in invisible ink? | |
Has everybody here forgotten how to think? | |
Is this great big boat starting to sink? | |
Pinpoint nukes. | |
Ready to fight. | |
Dressed to kill. | |
Sure we' re right. | |
Welcome to, welcome to, welcome to the | |
American night. | |
We just keep calling em up, calling em, calling em up. | |
We just keep calling em up, calling em, calling em up. | |
No matter what. | |
You know Tom | |
Paine wrote the first bestseller at a dark time in the | |
Revolution when we were losing and all the soldiers were deserting. | |
Giving up. | |
And the book was called | |
Common Sense and it was really just a long list of questions. | |
And one of the questions was: | |
Does it make common sense for an island to rule a continent? | |
And everybody kind of went hmmm and they signed back up. | |
And today you could ask: | |
Does it make common sense for a country to rule the world? | |
But no matter what your answer, no matter what you think, no matter what you vote for | |
We just keep calling em up, calling em, calling em up. | |
No matter what. | |
We just keep calling em up, calling em, calling em up. | |
No matter what. | |
We keep callin em up, callin em, callin em up. | |
We keep callin em up, callin em, callin em up. | |
And you thought there were things that had disappeared forever. | |
Things from the | |
Middle Ages. | |
Beheadings and hangings and people in cages. | |
And suddenly they were everywhere. | |
And suddenly they' re alright. | |
Welcome to, welcome to, welcome to the | |
American night. | |
We keep callin em up, callin em, callin em up. | |
We keep callin em up, callin em, callin em up. |