Steve Earle - Amerika v. 6.0 (The Best We Can Do) lyrics

Look at you you take a look in the mirror
Now tell me what you see
Another satisfied customer
In the front of the line
For the American dream
I remember when we was both
Out on the boulevard
Talking revolution and singing the blues
Nowadays it's letters to the editor
And cheating on our taxes is the
Best that we can do come on

Look around
There's doctors down on Wall Street
Sharpening their scalpels and trying
To cut a deal
Meanwhile, back at the hospital
Got accountants playing God and
Counting out the pills
Yeah, I know, that sucks
That your HMO ain't doing what
You thought it would do
But everybody's gotta die sometime and
We can't save everybody
It's the best that we can do

Four score and a hundred and fifty years ago
Our forefathers made us equal
As long as we can pay
Yeah, maybe that wasn't exactly
What they was thinking
Version 60 of the American Way
But hey we can just build a
Great wall around the country club
To keep the riff raff out
Until the slump is through
Yeah, I realize that ain't exactly democratic
But, it's either them or us and
It's the best we can do

Compassionately conservative
It's the best we can do
Conservatively compassionate
It's the best we can do
Meanwhile, still thinking
Hey, let's wage a war on drugs
It's the best we can do
Well, I don't know about you
But, I kinda dig this global warming thing
It's the best we can do