Bringing Us Down - Les Savy Fav

You’re bringing us down

Hear the symphony in the 5-man band

Try to sympathize but you can’t understand

Set my mind to intervalometer

It moves so slow from desk to dresser

Hits the ground without a sound

It took 5 years just to get down

Who put up the flag?

We haven’t got a door

Yet if they storm the fort tonight

Leave your pistol by your bed

We have jeopardized our situation

Disengage the ammunition

We are on a mercy mission

Take away the golden epaulettes

From the fallen dead cadets

Let their rank stand as their epitaphs

Throw their bodies in the acid bath

Drop the C-code and go for the gusto

The man at the plant swears the foreman must go

If the chief says, «Fight!»

Let the chief go ahead

The squaw and the scout will stay in bed

If the chief says, «Jump!»

I say, «Not I.»

If the chief says, «Jump!»

I say, «How high?»