Dark Time in the Revolution - Laurie Anderson

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