Bringing Us Down

Lyrics

You're bringing us down Hear the symphony in the 5-man band Try to sympathize but you can't understand Set my mind to intervalometer It moves so slow from desk to dresser Hits the ground without a sound It took 5 years just to get down Who put up the flag? We haven't got a door Yet if they storm the fort tonight Leave your pistol by your bed We have jeopardized our situation Disengage the ammunition We are on a mercy mission Take away the golden epaulettes From the fallen dead cadets Let their rank stand as their epitaphs Throw their bodies in the acid bath Drop the C-code and go for the gusto The man at the plant swears the foreman must go If the chief says, "Fight!" Let the chief go ahead The squaw and the scout will stay in bed If the chief says, "Jump!" I say, "Not I." If the chief says, "Jump!" I say, "How high?"