The rubber band American Dream has
Snapped back to first position
Too much talk of old fashioned values
Too many heads haunted by idealized nostalgia
Too many generations who were never there
But think we should all visit the past to be happy
The past is only better when you're talking about the T.V. shows.
How far do you want to go?
Let's undo civil rights and women's suffrage
Bring back polio and the measles
Stoning and lynching and burning
Who needs law and order?
We could abolish the separation of church and state?
I miss witch trials and the inquisition
And let's not forget Roe V. Wade
The past is only better when you're talking about the T.V. shows.
We can forget about the burning
The draft cards and bras
Living in caves, in the dark, waiting for creationist explanations
We can flashback-throwback-all the way back to hell
Dying of cigarette cancer, smallpox, and measles
Waiting for Joe McCarthy to arrest us all
The past is only better when you're talking about the T.V. shows.
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