| If you want to see something patriotic there’s a stripper
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| He don’t that look that good, but he’s got an All-American smile
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| That fills his underwear with all the lonely dollars
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| From all the lonely men who no one ever suffers
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| Who wait around this bar and spend all their lonely hours
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| They’re already gone, no one’s running for cover
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| The farther you run away the more you have to hide in the dark
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| White as the worm that crawls in the patriot’s heart
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| It is so red white and blue the way he works the bar
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| Selling his embraces like Mr. President or a fallen star
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| And he don’t care, babe, if you’re worldly or wise
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| He’s just looking for men with sin in their eyes
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| And he always says the same thing, he says
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| «So how you doin' baby, I’m your rod and your staff
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| And for a tip you can touch me
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| And after a few tequilas, I become something holy
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| In this crappy little bar with its sweating mirrors and its mildewed ceiling
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| I’m more full of love, yeah, than even natural selection
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| And dollar for dollar babe, it’s a better bargain
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| The more you pay the more I can break you all apart.»
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| And dollars pour like ashes from the patriot’s heart
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| Now he knows that your good time will kill him
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| But the thought of getting old, well it does not thrill him
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| He says «give me all your money and don’t tell me what you’re thinking
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| I’m the past you wasted, I’m the future you’re obliterating
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| Well c’mon grandpa, remind me what we’re celebrating
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| That you’re heart finally dried up, or that it finally stopped working
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| And how you make a dead man cum, you learned the undertakers art
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| And make 'em shine like the alcohol that preserves the patriot’s heart
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| We all want a patriot’s heart
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| Yeah, give me your patriot’s heart
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| You can see him fade with the dawn and a pile of washingtons
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| His head in a spin, he’s happy to pass out again
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| He would rather fade into the static than hear the violins
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| That whine like old lovers who whine that they love him
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| He would rather laugh alone in the dark with his soft hands of heaven
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| 'Cause they leave him alone with his entertainment system
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| He does it for the money but he gives more than he’s given
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| He does it for the money but he gives more than he’s given
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| And it’s only when he’s naked that he feels his heart
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| In the whorehouse desert of the patriot’s heart
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| We all want a patriot’s heart
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| We all want a patriot’s heart |