Lyrics A More Perfect Union - Titus Andronicus

A More Perfect Union

There’ll be no more counting the cars on the Garden State Parkway
Nor waiting for the Fung Wah bus to carry me to who-knows-where
And when I stand tonight, 'neath the lights of the Fenway
Will I not yell like hell for the glory of the Newark Bears?
Because where I’m going to now, no one can ever hurt me
Where the well of human hatred is shallow and dry
No, I never wanted to change the world, but I’m looking for a new New Jersey
Because tramps like us, baby, we were born to die
I’m doing 70 on 17, I’m doing 80 over 84
And I never let the Meritt Parkway magnetize me no more
Give me a brutal Somerville summer
Give me a cruel New England winter
Give me the great Pine Barrens
So I can see them turned into splinters
And if I come in on a donkey, let me go out on a gurney
I want to realize too late I never should have left New Jersey
Whoa-oh-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh-oh
La da da da da da da da da da da, yeah!
Whoa-oh-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh-oh
La da da da da da da da da da da, yeah!
I sense the enemy, they’re rustling around in the trees
I thought I had gotten away but the followed me to 02 143
Oh, woe, woe is me, no one knows the trouble I see
When they hang Jeff Davis from a sourapple tree, I’ll sit beneath the leaves
and weep
None of us shall be saved, every man will be a slave
For John Brown’s body lies a-mould'ring in the grave and there’s rumbling down
in the caves
So if it’s time for choosing sides, and to show this dirty city how we do the
Jersey Slide
And if it deserves a better class of criminal
Then I’ma give it to them tonight
So we’ll rally around the flag, rally around the flag
Rally around the flag, boys, rally once again
Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom
Rally around the flag, rally around the flag
Glory, glory, Hallelujah, His truth is marching on
«I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.
On this subject,
I do not wish to think, or speak, or write with moderation.
I am in earnest.
I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch,
and I will be heard.»