Laurie Anderson - Dark Time In The Revolution lyrics

The market keeps rising up the big machines
Control the sea and the air
Those big machines, they gotta go somewhere
So we keep calling em up, calling em
Calling em up no matter what

And then those questions come up
Like was the Constitution written
In invisible ink?
Has everybody here forgotten how to think?
Is this great big boat starting to sink?

Pinpoint nukes ready to fight dressed
To kill sure we're right
Welcome to, welcome to
Welcome to the American night
We just keep calling em up, calling em
Calling em up
We just keep calling em up, calling em
Calling em up no matter what
You know Tom Paine wrote the
First best-seller at a
Dark time in the Revolution
When we were losing
And all the soldiers were deserting
Giving up and the
Book was called Common Sense and it was
Really just a long list of
Questions and one of
The questions was: Does it
Make common sense for an island to rule a
Continent? And everybody kind
Of went hmmm and they signed back up
And today you could ask: Does it make
Common sense for a country to rule
The world? But no matter what your
Answer, no matter what you think
No matter what you vote for–

We just keep calling em up, calling em
Calling em up no matter what
We just keep calling em up, calling em
Calling em up no matter what

We keep callin em up, callin em, callin em up
We keep callin em up, callin em, callin em up

And you thought there were things
That had disappeared forever
Things from the Middle Ages
Beheadings and hangings and people in cages

And suddenly they were everywhere
And suddenly they're alright
Welcome to, welcome to
Welcome to the American night

We keep callin em up, callin em, callin em up
We keep callin em up, callin em, callin em up