Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Change is all we have left

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/01/obama-change-is-all-we-have-left/

1 comment:

  1. (With all due respect to Lloyd-Weber & Rice)

    [to be sung sometime in the not too distant future]

    Oh what a circus! Oh what a show!
    America has gone to town
    Over the election of an young man called Obama Barak
    We've all gone crazy
    Partying all day and dancing all night
    Falling over ourselves to get all
    Of the ecstasy right

    Oh what an entrance! That's how to go!
    When they're ringing your curtain down
    Demand to be feted like the "capital" O
    It's quite a sunset
    And good for the country in a roundabout way
    We've made the front page of all the world's papers today

    But who is this Santa Obama?
    Why all this howling hysterical hubris?
    What kind of savior has lived among us?
    How did we ever get by without him?

    He had his moments--he had some style
    The best show in town was the crowd
    Outside the Casa Rosada crying, "Obama Barak"
    But that'll be gone soon
    As soon as the smoke from the election clears
    We're all going to see and how he did nothing for years!

    CROWD
    Salve regina mater misericordiae
    Vita dulcedo et spes nostra
    Salve salve regina
    Ad te clamamus exules filii Eva
    Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes
    O clemens o pia

    CHE
    You let down your people Obama
    You were supposed to have been immortal
    That's all they wanted
    Not much to ask for
    But in the end you could not deliver

    Sing you fools! But you got it wrong
    Enjoy your prayers because you haven't got long
    Your queen (?!) is dead, your king is through
    He's not coming back to you

    Show business kept us all alive
    Since the primary season of 2005
    But the star has gone, the glamour's worn thin
    That's a pretty bad state for a state to be in

    Instead of government we had a stage
    Instead of ideas a prima donna's rage
    Instead of help we were given a crowd
    He didn't say much but she said it loud

    Sing you fools? But you got it wrong
    Enjoy your prayers because you haven't got long
    Your queen is dead, your king is through
    he's not coming back to you

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