Fall Of The American Empire (Radio Edit)

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	1.	Fall Of The American Empire 03:59	lyrics	buy track
	Did you get the invitation, the swan song of a nation, everyone’s waiting for you inside. We got soda pop and hickory stills. Quinn the Eskimo in espadrilles and Sally makin’ you feel alright. The baroness and her bayonets, the madhatter hedgin’ bets against the good judgment of the swinging king. It’s the fall of the American empire, but don’t you worry honey you didn’t miss a thing. Juiced up on dignitaries getting’ loose like Thelonious did. We get our own sanctimonious kid and he could suck the diamond off a diamond ring. Just send in the farmers in 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 her pants on fire and she got rabbit baby calling your name. Fall of the American empire it should’ve…but me, I’m just workin’ a sound bite, just rolling my smokes tight. You know they said it was all right, all right. ‘Cause Lucy’s in the nude with senator’s son you know the one from Massachusetts, she was pleased to come his advances, for he was a man of wealth and taste. But she got so cut up by the man who would not stop. Thought all she needed was love but it was like nothing she thought and when Lucy came to get her, in the corner she lay. Fall of the American empire, it should’ve been all right. Me I’m just working a sound bite, just rolling my smokes tight. You know they said it was all right, all right, all right. Where you going Mr. Holy? All right, say where were you going Mr. Holy. Lucy girl I found your diamonds, they shine like sirens singing from the shoals of Buzzard’s Bay. It’s worse than we know, how I wish it wasn’t so, that all tomorrow’s parties have gone away. Fall, all in for the fall of the American empire…you said it would never go away. Fall…Lucy girl can’t you just stay.

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released October 7, 2008

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