Fall of the American Empire
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Did you get the invitation
The swan song of a nation
Everyone's waiting for you inside
We got soda pop and hickory stills
Queenie Eskimo and Esperdilles
And Sally making you feel alright
Oh the Baroness and her bayonets
The mad hatter hedging bets
Against the good judgment of the swinging king
'Cause it's the fall of the American Empire
Don't you worry honey you didn't miss a thing
Juiced up dignitaries getting loose like Thelonious did
We got our own sanctimonious kid
And he can suck the diamond off a diamond ring
Just send in the farmers and the National Guard
We'll be in the war room getting hard
Just wear your dress blues you know you look so damn dashing
Don't be shy Sally won't bite you
'Cause she got a pencil in fire
She got a robin baby calling your name
Oh the American Empire
It should have been alright
Should have, should have
But me I'm just working a sound bite
Just rolling my smokes tight
You know they said it was alright
Alright, alright
'Cause Lucy's on the moon
With nothing left to lose
Sipping black eyed kiss the sky American booze
Sally got dirty with a senator's son
You know the one from Massachusetts
She was pleased, cuffed to his advances
He was a man of wealth and taste
And she got so caught up
But Elena would not stop
Thought all she needed was love
But it was like nothing she'd done
And when Lucy came to get her in the corner she lay
It's the fall of the American Empire
It should have been alright
Should have, should have
But me I'm just working a sound bite
Just rolling my smokes tight
You know they said it was alright
Alright, alright
Alright
Alright
Where you going Mr. Holy?
Alright
Alright
Alright
Say where you going Mr. Holy?
Lucy girl I found your diamonds
They shine like sirens
Stinging from the souls of buzzards' feet
And it's worse than we know
How I wish it wasn't so
That all tomorrow's parties are gonna leave
Fall (Falling for the fall of the American Empire)
Oh they said you would never go away
Fall (Falling for the fall of the American Empire)
Lucy girl who can't you just stay?
I'll go to pieces
Till you left me in knees
You can crucify higher than her
Molasses to ashes
Making the passes
A potent side liquor
But I came in covered in soot
From the canopy
The brakes on the car made of wood
And as you beholden to me
Well I found
You wait on the morrow
And you lay stay in the barrow
She belies the tallest citadels
I can't let you mean it
And say you don't need it
As we get lost in the city well
It's not just how you fight
When the windows are bright
It's just me
All cold soaked in love
It's a lesson incurred
That's barely heard
It's the devil who never misses a vein