Liberty Lies Songtext
von David Baerwald

We′ve got a different kind of murder out here
The man on my TV said
A random kind of feeling starts to fill the air
And we're left here to count the dead
The next channel over
Some ladies were talking
From the Committee of Oh My God
A woman stood up
Started screaming about Satan
The audience roared with applause
And a pollyanna shouted
A pollyanna cried
A pollyanna leapt up
With that sorrow in her eyes


We′ve got liberty lies and refugees
Big brass bands and amputees
But there's hope for the hopeless
If there's hope for me
′cause baby I′ve been crawling
I been crawling
Liberty, lies and refugees
And trembling hands and shaky knees
But there's homes for the homeless
If there′s a home for me
'cause baby I been crawling

On the cable news network
A fireman sobs
Tears make tracks through the ash
I look out my window
To see if I′m being robbed
See an overcoat ploughing through the trash
We got Kentucky Fried Chicken
We got an empty soup can
We got noodles and rice from the cafe
A man selling god
Appears quoting scriptures
The same way he does everyday
We got pollyanna shouting
And pollyanna cries
We got pollyannas leaping
With that sorrow in their eyes


We've got liberty lies and refugees
And big brass bands and amputees
But there′s hope for the hopeless
If there's hope for me
'cause baby I′ve been crawling
Liberty, lies and refugees
And trembling hands and shaky knees
But there′s homes for the homeless
If there's a home for me
′cause baby I been crawling

It's like I′m walking through rome
Tenements all torn apart
Instead of Nero
We got Madonna
She's fiddling with herself
Phrases and faces keep coming on through
Put ′em on a microscope try to see 'em through
Spin 'em round this way and spin ′em round that
But there′s birds in the air with long claws