All the King's Horses Songtext
von Stephen Fearing

Don′t lecture me
Don't hit me with that stick
I know how easily
The little lies run off your lip
I know that jerking knee
I know the bully-legged kick
It don′t take genius
To see people driven by the whip
And as we run downhill
I think that we must love disaster
Because there's so much bad will
Unhappy ever after
And it makes me look
Between the crying and the laughter
Me and my kindhearted eyes


This country's gone to hell
And we just vote reactionary
Too many times to the well
All the mines are full of dead canaries
Everybody′s pain
Every voice is hoarse and dull
As the reptile brain
Uncoils inside the skull
Watch it roll downhill
Ah there′s nothing like a good disaster
There's so much bad will
Unhappy ever after
But I have to look
Between the crying and the laughter
Me and my kindhearted eyes

Oh give me whiskey
Give me water
Give me something good to say
Hope that fills the morning
Like a songbird in an alleyway
Give me something more
Than counted chickens on the Sabbath day
Jesus has left the building
Carrying faith away

Tear the heroes down
Pull the posters off the wall
Yesterday′s underground
In a delete bin at the mall
It got so desperate
All the king's horses and his men
Forgot their history
They stuck the egg back on the wall again


And it rolled downhill
Oh people love disaster
′Cause there's so much bad will
Unhappy ever after
But I have to look
Between the crying and the laughter
Me and my kindhearted eyes
Me and my kindhearted eyes
Me and my kindhearted eyes