In honor of the 2005 Inauguration of George W. Bush, I have composed a small song. An mp3 is here:

"George Bush Is a Liar"


So, before you go listening to this, here's a few things you should understand:

  1. I am not a singer, or even someone who terribly likes the sound of my own voice.
  2. I could not find a karaoke mp3 without vocals, so I have a very low-quality midi which is sadly the only thing I could come up with.
  3. And speaking of sadly the only thing I could come up with, I do not have a recording studio. Or even much in the way of a microphone. Or a computer program that lets me mix two tracks of sound into one. This was all recorded into a tiny headset microphone, accomplished by blasting the midi out of my mediocre speakers, sticking the headset microphone next to the aforementioned speakers, and singing into it at the same time.
But I felt it was necessary, as we live in an age of multi-media, and most people want to listen to songs, not just read lyrics. Of course, in deference to those who still enjoy reading lyrics, here they are:

 

"George Bush Is a Liar"

(to the tune of "We Didn't Start the Fire")

Colin Powell, Tom DeLay, Dick Cheney, Kenneth Lay
Ari Fleischer, Scott McClellan, Condoleeza Rice

Donald Rumsfeld, Halliburton, no-bid contracts leave us certain
Bills immense for our defense were never looked at twice.

EPA strip-mined, Every Child Left Behind,
Good ol' boys overpaid, overturning Roe v. Wade.

Trillion dollar deficit, many facts you won't admit
Andrew Card, My Pet Goat, Diebold rigged the whole vote.


   CHORUS
   George Bush is a Liar,
   Why did we elect him if we can't respect him?
   George Bush is a Liar,
   All the vows he's spoken have been duly broken.


Halliburton, Enron, Military records gone.
Faith-based funding just for church, TSA intrusive search,

Lower standards for Clean Air, Tax-cuts for the billionaires,
Same-sex marriage ban, no Iraq withdrawal plan.

WMD not found, send more troops in on the ground,
Armor lack in Iraq, still we're pressing the attack.

Georgie Boy you must have laughed, when you said there'd be no draft,
Sent our lads to Baghdad, now they're in a body bag.


   CHORUS
   Bush is a Liar,
   Why did we elect him if we can't respect him?
   George Bush is a Liar,
   All the vows he's spoken have been duly broken.

 

All work on this page copyright Seth Brown. The lyrics may not be reprinted without permission, which I give easily. The mp3 is rather sad, but if you want to forward it, go ahead.