0:00 Down on the Potomac, the air is gettin' thin0:04 Another short chapter 'fore the troubles begin0:09 The Speaker, he's walking a high, narrow wire0:14 Trying to quell his own party's fire0:18 They passed a short bill just to keep on the lights0:23 Putting off arguments for colder nights0:28 Just kicking the can down a well-trodden road0:33 Another small part of a heavy, shared load.0:37 Oh, the headlines they fly and the pundits they crow0:42 From the seeds of today, a new story will grow0:47 The ink's barely dry on the page that you've read0:51 But the tale is the same as the ones from the dead0:56 A song of the powerful, the lost, and the new1:01 Just the world turning 'round, for me and for you.1:06 Out on the coast, in a kingdom of code1:10 A king was cast out from the world he had sowed1:15 He taught the machines how to think and to dream1:20 Then was banished one morning by his own loyal team1:25 For five days the valley, it held its own breath1:29 A story of power, of corporate death1:34 Then the kingdom cried out and they brought him back home1:39 To sit once again on a silicon throne.1:43 Oh, the headlines they fly and the pundits they crow1:48 From the seeds of today, a new story will grow1:53 The ink's barely dry on the page that you've read1:58 But the tale is the same as the ones from the dead2:02 A song of the powerful, the lost, and the new2:07 Just the world turning 'round, for me and for you.2:12 The students are shouting in ivy-clad yards2:17 Playing out old wars with new, angry cards2:21 The ghosts of a conflict from over the sea2:26 Cast a long, weary shadow on the land of the free2:31 And a traveler listens, just shakes his head slow2:35 It’s a tune that he's heard everywhere that he'll go.2:40 Oh, the headlines they fly and the pundits they crow2:45 From the seeds of today, a new story will grow2:50 The ink's barely dry on the page that you've read2:54 But the tale is the same as the ones from the dead2:59 A song of the powerful, the lost, and the new3:04 Just the world turning 'round, for me and for you.
