Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Hesitating Nation
I don't really even want to know you With your backstage wisdom like a boarded up window Who are we to go and make big plans? Married in a fever, children in a panic Deep sea diver, advertising ruin With the underwater fire, state sponsored pollution Closing our eyes, blindly to town Hoping that Mama does not see us now We've become the world's first millionaires You know, the ones who just don't care Can't even taste it but it's really nothing new And it smells of compromise with subtle hints of confusion Holidays are working days to us now We are lifting dead weight and embracing self-doubt The shirt with the wine stain, the car is not running A policeman laughs but it's really not funny Who will save me when I'm feeling this down All God's children are useless to me now We have come for solitary fun, debonair You know, for the ones who just don't care All of the innocents we've yet to cast out SongtexteIn a hesitating nation on the way to nervous breakdown In a certain way, I'm sitting pretty now I've got a hundred dollar bill to plug the politician's mouth It's written in the paper, there's a fever taking hold And now it's everyone gather 'round the toilet bowl What a shame, and what a letdown You will be dead before the bottom drops out All is well so long as you say your little prayers You know, for the ones who just don't care When you are the one who didn't care And you are the one who just don't care Aus Songtexte Mania