No More Heroes
When I fall asleep then sometimes, I dream,
of those cowboys that didn’t take any guff.
When dastardly men rear their ugly heads,
they’d step up and say enough is enough.
But now the world has run out of heroes,
no one can teach us what we need to know.
Without Randolph and Roy, Audie and John,
all the bad guys are now running the show.
Now, the black hats are running the country,
they have pushed the gravy train off the track.
Let’s send in John Wayne or Audie Murphy,
or someone we can trust to put it back.
We need a good hero like Roy Rogers,
to come galloping over the green grass.
Someone like the Lone Ranger and Tonto,
who can kick all the bad guys in the ass.
We’re just a bit older than yesterday,
when people always gave more than they got.
Now the pan’s on the stove boiling away,
and we don’t have a spoon to stir the pot.
Nobody believes in doing good deeds,
unless you are willing to grease their palm.
One thing that I can say for sure my friends,
we’re in the storm that comes after the calm.
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