INDIGO GIRLS - white house blues lyrics

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i wrote a letter to my senator

came back address unknown

put a call in to the president

he wouldn't come to the phone

now how in the hell can a person

feel safe and secure at home

when all the decisions are being made

by big boys getting stoned

now i've been listening and watching

looks like somethings caught in the gears

i can't seem to find a groove

there's something going on around here

yeah

so took a train to the white house

wrote this song on the way

i knocked at the oval office

i sure of what i had to say

well they looked at me kind of funny

asked me what group i was with

i said i come on my own to represent

the group that don't take no shit

now i've been listening and watching

looks like somethings caught in the gears

i can't seem to find a groove

there's something going on around here

yeah

what's wrong in the company

words been going down

he's jepardizing the future

so he can get what he wants right now

said level the mountains for gold

fill up the sea with iron

what the hell jesus is coming

and the waiting is making me tired

now i've been listening and watching

it looks like somethings caught in the gears

i can't seem to find a groove

there's something going on around here

hey mr. nunn sir

please tell me this

why do you boys engage

in pornographic bliss

up and down to boulevards

of military towns

t & a and cheap hotels

for them to throw down

it's a release they say

it's the american way

it's not a soldiers preference

that makes him wrong or right

it's how he lives and how he acts

that makes him serve his country right

now i've been listening and watching

it looks like somethings caught in the gears

i can't seem to find a groove

there's something going on around here

yeah