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Right after Bush stole the second election, a friend of mine sent me a ‘letter to the editor’ from a New Jersey daily newspaper. The letter was brilliant and was about as accurate a description of public complicity in Bush’s bludgeoning of democracy as I’ve ever read. This song is a compression of the writer’s larger essay on how we as Americans simply go along with every thing this administration does, no matter how much it degrades the Constitution, our quaint notions of democracy, or the healthy push and pull of dissent. It galls me when politicians pander and assure us that Americans are too smart to be fooled by such trepanning (ahhh...finally got to use it!). Judging from the shape our country is in, I think the operation was a success.

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Yes, Yes

Yes to endless wars and certain fears
Yes to bombing people over there

Yes to making enemies of friends

Yes to wasting substance without end.

Yes to taking teaching out of school
Yes to treat the scientist like a fool

Yes to letting hatred fill the air

Yes to God, I hope that He’s not queer.

We have spoken, we’re not joking—
Drink to all that we were once—
Kneel before the dunce.

Yes, yes, we say yes.

Yes to all the faith that money heals
Yes to Congress striking up the deal
Yes to hearing pregnant women squeal
Yes to Rowe v. Wade and its repeal.
Yes to crush the union rank and file

Yes to more invective on the dial

Yes to those who bash those who dissent
Yes to no ‘cause yes was never meant.

We have spoken, we’re not joking—
Drink to all that we were once—
Kneel before the dunce.

Yes, yes, we say yes.

Yes, we’ll give our loyalty to you

Yes, it doesn’t matter what you do

Yes, it’s true, we haven’t go a clue

For red is white while the rest of us are blue.

We have spoken, we’re not joking—
Drink to all that we were once—
Kneel before the dunce.

Yes, yes, we say yes.
Yes, yes, we say yes.

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from Trepanning, track released January 1, 2008

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Edward Morneau Salem, Massachusetts

Edward Morneau has been a musician and songwriter most of his life. His focus on multiple genres and interest on sound collage experimentation makes his music hard to classify. His muses range from Beatles, Brian Wilson, Randy Newman, XTC, Kinks, Iris DeMent to Mahler, Shostakovich, Penderecki & Zappa. His background as an English & Film teacher gives humor and striking imagery to his songs. ... more

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