The disappearing democracy blues

 I thought I'd go and talk with Jane Seymour

She's been the one that I've been dreaming of

The king is in another restless torpor

And he is collecting all the heads of those I love

All the houses of the high and mighty

Have fallen down like dominos

The diamonds glitter in the clubs

While with golden spades their fields are dug

And the hearts and minds have faded like a dream

Oh Wish I knew America, and that when it looked into a mirror

It wasn't only vanity and greed that could be seen

But I'm afraid that humanity and Christianity

Have been replaced by fear and an idiocy

That threatens the fabric of democracy

And leave a lunatic king to order executioner's insanity  

While civil war beckons within the American dream

So I sit at the card table, the one where Eve loved Cain and Abel

But After Cain had cut the deck, he used a knife and slit Abel's neck

And reshuffled all the hearts and clubs, 

he slipped in a Joker distract the judge

Then behind the smoke and mirrors smudged

 the constitution written on the walls

And then he whitewashed the white house halls, painted them in blood

Like in hellish balls, while Noah and his animals waited for the flood

So I wish to see America, one more time before she disappears

And liberty's statue falls into the sea, behind three monkeys closing their mouths, their eyes and ears

Yes I wish to see America, where is she? I can't see her through my tears

All that I loved about her in the Eighties when I was growing up she was changing through the years

But it's not that I have changed and she has remained the same,

It's just I have the disappearing democracy fears

So Good Night to you America

I hope tomorrow the world will not seem so dark

Because today you snuffed out the torch of liberty

And with it you have killed a big piece of my heart

So Good Night to you America, 

Don't take down the flag that once you flew

Over a world where we looked to you like a symbol

For tonight you've got the disappearing democracy blues