Mad Men - MC Lars, Schaffer The Darklord, Ash Wednesday

The name’s Don Draper this is my story

The pain and the dreams and the ads and the glory

The captain of my ship, Sterling Cooper Draper Price

The hours are insane but the benefits are nice

It’s NYC in '63

Willy Loman — hey that’s me

I live two lives as you can see

Even lied to my family

Drinking whiskey till I pass out on my black couch

My secretary wakes me up and I’m out

I slept with one and I’ll sleep with another

Korean War vet with a prostitute mother

There’s Joan and Peter, Peggy, Roger

Everyone is a problem solver

Good men?

Bad men?

You decide

We’re lost in America trying to get by

Mad Men, are we really bad men?

I don’t really know

But I think it’s kind of sad when

People say we’re

Mad Men, are we really bad men?

I don’t really know

But I think it’s kind of sad when

People call us

I’m Roger Sterling, man about town

Booze, sex, lies, two ex-wives down

I never was faithful, I never was home

Maybe that’s now why I’m all alone (come on!)

Look at me now, I’m not doing so well

Things fall apart, and the partners can tell

Despised by my daughter, denied to be a father

To Red’s lovechild, I only want her when I’ve lost her

Lucky Strike’s leaving, our best client

Begged to stay, they were non-compliant

I was quiet, I couldn’t hide it

The others called me out, and I straight up denied it

Heart attack in my office

My lifestyle hits me in the face

The firm gets sold kind of like my soul

So old, I’m gonna die in this place

We sell desire, we sell amenities

We drive consumption, we brand identities

Good men, bad men, you decide

We’re lost in America, trying to get by

REPEAT CHORUS x2

Everything changes, life gets harder

Peggy is promoted, Joan makes partner

Peter’s in LA, Lane Pryce is buried

Megan sings «Zou Bisou,» now we’re married

In a dark penthouse I drink back doubts

Roger drops acid, Sally acts out

I scare away Hershey, colleagues peeved

A unanimous vote, and I’m placed on leave

Static from a black and white TV screams

Dick and Adam Whitman haunt my dreams

I’ve played and I’ve lost, now all that I’ve got

An empty pack of smokes, a broken bottle of scotch

Never seen a want I couldn’t sell as a need

I’m falling from a skyscraper, picking up speed

Good men, bad men, you decide

We’re lost in a America, trying to get by

REPEAT CHORUS x2

OUTRO x2:

Good men, bad men, you decide

We’re lost in America, trying to get by

Lars:

This week on Mad Men, Roger Sterling does a bunch of horrible things

Everyone is surprised, but not that surprised

As social issues play out in the background