Titus Andronicus - More Perfect Union lyrics

rate me

There'll be no more countin' the cars on the garden state parkway

Nor waitin' for the Fung Wah bus to carry me to who-knows-where

And when I stand tonight beneath the lights of the Fenway

Will I not yell like hell for the glory of the Newark Bears?

Cuz where I'm goin' to now, no one can eva hurt me

Where the well of human hatred is shallow & dry

No, I neva wanted to change the world, but I'm lookin' for a new New Jersey

Cuz tramps like us, baby, we were born to die

I'm doin' seventy on seventeen, I'm doin' eighty ova eighty four

And I neva let the Meritt Parkway magnetize me no more

Give me a brutal Somerville summer, give me a cruel New England winter

Give me the great Pine Barrens so I can see them turned into splinters

Cuz if I come in on a donkey

Let me go out on a gurney

I want to realize too late I neva should have left New Jersey

I sense the enemy

They're rustlin' around in the trees

Oh, I thought I had gotten away

But they followed me to 02143

Woe, oh woe is me

No one knows the trouble I see

When they hang Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree

I'll sit beneath the leaves & weep

None of us shall be saved

Every man will be a slave

For John Brown's body lies a-mouldrin' in the grave

And there's rumblings down in the cave

So if it's time for choosin' sides

And to show this dirty city how we do the Jersey Slide

And if it deserves a betta class of criminal

Then I'm'a give it to them tonight

So we'll rally around the flag, rally around the flag

Rally around the flag, boys, rally once again, shoutin' the Battle Cry of Freedom

Rally around the flag, rally around the flag

Glory, glory, hallelujah, His truth is marchin' on