Some people
Was looking for
A big
US transformation
But 2008
Brought
The same 2002
And 2004 illusion
The big boys
Behind the scene
Made sure
Of how
The so-called votes
Would lean
Securing
Their
Hand-picked
Piano queen
Right about now
You have
To start wondering
Who’s pulling
The strings
Because
As the years
Go by
We see less
And less
Of the
American dream
As baseball
And apple pie
Progressively gets creamed
American jobs
Are
Out-sourced
And all
The wars
Have a
Huge cost of course
We can’t blame
The new guy
Because property
You used
To own
The title to
Don’t belong to you
We can’t blame
The new guy
Because the
Small business owner
Is cashing it in
After the
Yes we can
Win
We can’t blame
The new guy
Because
Teachers
Are getting
Pink slips
Left and right
And if
Johnny’s mother
Won’t
Or can’t
Buy
All
His school supplies
Johnny won’t write
And
23 Trillion dollars
Got
The Bankers
To stop shaking
And today
Neither
Your father
Nor your mother
Can bring home
The bacon
While US wages
Continues to get closer
To minimum wages
Your
Unemployment check
Is about
To run out
While you’re trying
To figure out
A new
Life’s route
Your paychecks
Are signed by
A
Temp Service
And people
With
Employment
Remain nervous
And a graduate
Of a university
Flips burgers
While holding on
To their
College degree
Or they stay in college
And get
3 degrees
But we
Can’t blame
The new guy
Because
The new guy
Blames the last guy
And the last guy
Bailed out
The giant
Car guys
But if you ask me
It’s
All the guys
Because every guy
Had a deficit
To pass on
Ever since
The Revolutionary War
Was won or not won
And the
Money changers
Never really
Make
A change
Their agenda
Remains the same
So
The new guy
Isn’t to blame
But
Americans shame
Is the product
Of puppets
Who are tame
By visions
Of power
And
Memories of fear
Since the John F
Kennedy years
We can’t blame it
On the new guy
Because
The cost
Of living is high
High! High! High! high!
And the
Middle class
Now looks
Into the eyes of lower class
Through the looking glass
While the Administration
In pregnant a nation
With their useless
Spending transactions
Like the
500 million dollars
From the
Obama administration
To
Deal with
Kindergarteners
Who are restless
And parents
Still blind
To this
Legislative
Mess
Needless
To say
It has come
To this
But
We can’t blame
The new guy
When the conception
Of women’s rights
Left the children
High and dry
The program
Has been
In place
Since six generations
Of
Grandmothers
Were born
And for the
Red
White
And the blue
We
Will
Mourn
YES WE CAN!
Blame the new guy
Because
I don’t think
He even gave it
A try
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