Lesson #217 Lyrics

Oh Election Day

Oh Election Day

Results are in, you saved my life

I cried and waited up with you all night

But you didn't elect to stay with me

The poor are jumping the barricades

The virgins shamed and us whores the same

Just like the Epic of Gilgamesh

Expecting someone else to clean up your mess

I am a militant pacifist

When this war is over watch my slit my wrists

You can't change the world it's true

Without it changing you

Oh Election Day

Oh Election Day

I can't live without you in my life

I waited up for you all night

I wonder which will end first

What's worse I'm cursed

But the stage direction's clear

Wash up get your money and get out of here

Come watch the grain elevators burst

We're well fed but nothing touches the thirst

We're well spoken of in the past tense

A craving for freedom and independence

Grows only in a man still living on hope

At the end of a rope

Oh these jokes are old

Oh these jokes are old

Baby I hope never by mistake

You buy a hours in a fugue state

The sun's gone down and its getting late

Yet we still wait