Drive-By Truckers - Once They Banned Imagine lyrics

We had our heart strings dangling
Ripe for the yanking
And lot of reasons grabby was good
Poor huddled masses singing boots
Up their asses
Giving grabby what he needed to pull
All the way back to where ghosts
From the past were still
Fighting their wars from the grave
Complete with record burning and
Threatening and spurning
The crime of getting blood on the page

Since the big one ended
We’d been mostly pretending
We’d have had the same gumption and grit
As the greatest among us when
Harm came upon us
We wouldn’t hesitate to defend
But with or against something’s been
Out to get us


And it looked like something finally did
No nobler cause in our lifetime for
Setting our sails to the wind
But once they banned Imagine it became the
Same old war it's always been
Once they banned Imagine it became the war
It was when we were kids

Are you now or have you ever been in
Cahoots with the notion that
People can change
When history happens again if you do
Or you did you’ll be blamed
From baseless inquiry to no knocking entry
Becoming the law of the land
To half cocked excuses for bullet abuse
Regarding anything browner than tan

Cause once they banned Imagine it became the
Same old war it's always been
Once they banned Imagine it became the war
It was when we were kids