Don't lecture me Don't hit me with that stick I know how easily The little lies run off your lip I know that jerking knee I know the bully-legged kick It don't take genius To see people driven by the whip And as we run downhill I think that we must love disaster Because there's so much bad will Unhappy ever after And it makes me look Between the crying and the laughter Me and my kindhearted eyes This country's gone to hell And we just vote reactionary Too many times to the well All the mines are full of dead canaries Everybody's pain Every voice is hoarse and dull As the reptile brain Uncoils inside the skull Watch it roll downhill Ah there's nothing like a good disaster There's so much bad will Unhappy ever after But I have to look Between the crying and the laughter Me and my kindhearted eyes Oh give me whiskey Give me water Give me something good to say Hope that fills the morning Like a songbird in an alleyway Give me something more Than counted chickens on the Sabbath day Jesus has left the building Carrying faith away Tear the heroes down Pull the posters off the wall Yesterday's underground In a delete bin at the mall It got so desperate All the king's horses and his men Forgot their history They stuck the egg back on the wall again And it rolled downhill Oh people love disaster 'Cause there's so much bad will Unhappy ever after But I have to look Between the crying and the laughter Me and my kindhearted eyes Me and my kindhearted eyes Me and my kindhearted eyes