I had this tune basically written for a day and a half but it didn't have the right feel. I was listening to Alison Krauss and Robert Plant while making chicken noodle soup for my poor, sick, non-vegetarian girlfriend and then something clicked. I don't want to suggest that Robert Plant is chicken soup for the songwriter's soul, but, you know... whatever it takes to kick out the jams,
lyrics
Sarah Palin makes me want to build a mosque
across all of ground zero every time she talks
Sarah Palin makes me want to build a mosque
across all of Alaska every time she burns a cross
And I've loved crazy Christians all my life
and I've even had conversations with racists
but there's gotta be room for dialogue
There's gotta be room for dialogue
Sarah Palin makes me want to build a mosque
across all of ground zero every time she talks
Sarah Palin makes me want to build a mosque
across all of Alaska every time she burns a cross
Well she's on the TV crying every week, shine or rain
faux folksy faux reporter on a five year campaign
but she changes all our headlines everytime she tells a lie
and she wants to change the world back for the ones who advertise
Sarah Palin makes me want to build a mosque
across all of ground zero every time she talks
Sarah Palin makes me want to build a mosque
across all of Alaska every time she burns a cross
Sarah Palin makes me want to build a mosque
across all of ground zero every time she talks
Sarah Palin makes me want to build a mosque
across all of Alaska every time she burns a cross
Do I think I overstated the liberal talking points of the day, here? Obviously, and hopefully to some comic effect. When you look at how artists from Bob Dylan, to Neil Young, to Henrik Ibsen have gotten famous for dramatizing stories they get straight out of the newspaper, then that's probably something any aspiring artist should try. Shakespeare did a bit of the same thing, perhaps, and historians have argued back and forth on whether his heart was really in his political satires. If I regret anything about this song, it's that the satire isn't harsh enough to be really laugh-out-loud funny. Like, sure, the Klan is evil, and turning Alaska into a giant Al Aqsa is a good pun to reach for, but she had also recently come under scrutiny for shooting wolves from a helicopter, and any satirist worth his salts should be able to to skewer a millionaire who hunts puppies from the sky. A song per day is a tight deadline, and some days I had other stuff happening. Sorry for the lack of dead puppy imagery, rock fans.
credits
from 64x30,
track released September 20, 2010
Eli Resnick: guitar, vocals, lyrics, music, keys, drum programming, recording, production
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