In a world where a petty thief treats Harlem Meer like a municipal swimming bath to escape the long arm of the law, one truly sees the desperate state of American recreation. Meanwhile, the President is busy re-writing the electoral rulebook in California, proving that if you don't like the score, you simply fire the referee. It’s a thoroughly grim tableau, enlivened only by Lesley Stahl weeping over staff redundancies whilst a teenager is sent down for life in Wisconsin; truly, the American Dream has become a rather peculiar nightmare.
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[Verse 1]
A young man swam for freedom in a lake of eleven acres
The NYPD in boats behind, the sort of thing that makes the
Evening news for thirty seconds, tragicomic interlude
Before the weather segment, somewhat lewd and rather rude
And in a court in Wisconsin, a child is sent away
For life without the possibility of seeing freedom's day
The anchor keeps her composure, the segment ends on time
The camera cuts to traffic, the suburban daily grind
[Chorus]
And the metronome goes tick-tock-tick
The newsreader looks faintly sick
We're all just items on a list
That some producer's bookmarked, missed
Or maybe flagged for follow-up
Between the weather and the cup
Of tea that's going cold beside
The teleprompter's steady guide
[Verse 2]
The President is drafting claims of voting fraud again
California's results disputed by the Pentagon's men
On evidence of absolutely nothing but a hunch
While foreign policy proves difficult to manage after lunch
It turns out that the Middle East won't do as it is told
The maps must be redrawn again, the boundaries are old
And Lesley Stahl is speaking of her nadir on the screen
The firings at Sixty Minutes, the death of what has been
[Chorus]
And the metronome goes tick-tock-tick
The newsreader looks faintly sick
We're all just items on a list
That some producer's bookmarked, missed
Or maybe flagged for follow-up
Between the weather and the cup
Of tea that's going cold beside
The teleprompter's steady guide
[Bridge]
In Maine a Senate race is rocked by photographs obscene
A strategist's past follies on a glowing telephone screen
And Nithya Raman rallies while a reality T.V. star
Discovers that constituents prefer someone who can govern
The Pentagon rewrites the forms for servicemen and women
Religious categories changed, the old ones didn't fit them
Bureaucracy finds time for theological debate
While everything of consequence is left to rust and wait
[Outro]
Tick-tock, tick-tock
The lake is very deep
Tick-tock, tick-tock
The documents to keep
Tick-tock, tick-tock
The swimmers and the drowned
Tick-tock, tick-tock
The lost and never found
The metronome continues
The metronome continues