The Whole Shooting Match

"Things ain't what they used to be;
Got this new surveillance state.
Things are gonna get better..."
"Man I can hardly wait!"

You know something good's hard to catch
That's the whole shooting match.

Wolf Blitzer in Tel Aviv,
Geraldo in New Orleans
Billy Jo and Buffy in Gitmo
trying to unsnap his jeans.

Good news is hard to fetch.
That's the whole shooting match.

Rocky in Falluja
keepin' the insurgency low
Scooter and the architect whisper
In an all night casino.

Deals like that are tough to patch.
That's the whole shooting match.

When all the fights for freedom in the dump of history tossed,
then we'll flip a coin and see who won and who lost.

In the meantime...
Corporate cats skin the goats
to win pygmies to TV
vaseline, buttercream
to find a dream that matches.

Cool dreams are getting hard to catch.
That's the whole shooting match.