Song by Ben Bochner:
What Kind of Monsters
What’s that I heard today?
They say
A million barrels spilled into the bay?
And what kind of fool would say,
“Well, hey,
“That’s just the way things seem to go these days”?
And where is the voice to say:
“No more. No way.
“We’ve got to find ourselves another way”?
We’re hypnotized
And paralyzed
Pretending that our eyes don’t see
Oh, what kind of monsters
What kind of monsters
What kind of monsters
Are we?
Hey! It’s a sunny day
We lay
Beneath the sky and dream our lives away
But, oh! What a price to pay
Look away and tell ourselves that
Everything’s OK
And where is our president?
He came. And went.
He says he sends us all his deep regrets
We’re hypnotized
And paralyzed
Pretending that our eyes don’t see
Oh, what kind of monsters
What kind of monsters
What kind of monsters
Are we?