A Few Words in Defense of Our Country-Randy Newman

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Newman [00:09.22]I’d like to say a few words [00:14.39]In defense of our country [00:19.68]Whose people aren’t bad nor are they mean [00:29.22]Now the leaders we have [00:34.01]While they’re the worst that we’ve had [00:38.20]Are hardly the worst this poor world has seen [00:43.67] [00:47.09]Take the Caesars for example [00:50.24]Why within the first few of them [00:52.72]They were sleeping with their sister [00:54.69]Stashing little boys in swimming pools [00:57.39]And burning down the City [00:58.93]And one of ‘em, one of 'em [01:01.46]Appointed his own horse Consul of the Empire [01:03.85]That’s like vice president or something [01:06.66]That’s not a very good example, is it? [01:10.92]But wait, here’s one, the Spanish Inquisition [01:13.37]They put people in a terrible position [01:16.87]I don’t even like to think about it [01:20.71]Well, sometimes I like to think about it [01:23.72] [01:25.15]Just a few words in defense of our country [01:34.16]Whose time at the top [01:37.11]Could be coming to an end [01:42.24]Now we don’t want their love [01:46.93]And respect at this point is pretty much out of the question [01:52.50]But in times like these [01:55.01]We sure could use a friend [01:57.54] [02:00.51]Hitler. Stalin. [02:06.41]Men who need no introduction [02:10.76]King Leopold of Belgium. That’s right. [02:14.23]Everyone thinks he’s so great [02:18.11]Well he owned The Congo [02:21.34]He tore it up too [02:23.96]He took the diamonds, he took the gold [02:26.10]He took the silver [02:27.84]Know what he left them with? [02:33.54]Malaria [02:36.35] [02:38.00]A President once said, [02:40.67]"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" [02:44.26]Now it seems like we’re supposed to be afraid [02:47.86]It’s patriotic in fact and color coded [02:51.10]And what are we supposed to be afraid of? [02:54.32]Why, of being afraid [02:56.50]That’s what terror means, doesn’t it? [02:58.61]That’s what it used to mean [03:01.53] [03:04.98]You know it pisses me off a little [03:07.30]That this Supreme Court is gonna outlive me [03:11.02]A couple of young Italian fellas [03:12.49]and a brother on the Court now too [03:15.83]But I defy you, anywhere in the world [03:19.28]To find me two Italians as tightass as the two Italians we got [03:23.78]And as for the brother [03:25.67]Well, Pluto’s not a planet anymore either [03:30.14] [03:31.88]The end of an empire is messy at best [03:38.06]And this empire is ending [03:41.76]Like all the rest [03:45.06]Like the Spanish Armada adrift on the sea [03:52.13]We’re adrift in the land of the brave [03:55.42]And the home of the free [03:57.52]Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. [04:07.32]