Madam Magna Carta - lyrics by Danny Schmidt

MADAM MAGNA CARTA

When their best of worst intentions meets our greatest fear
Our faces grow grotesque inside the mirror
They've got our grandpa's swollen eyes and our grandma's woeful tears
Melting off the paint of decent years

The framers and the farmers both built fences round their fields
To hold this harvest high beyond repeal
While the fair and tenured scarecrows stand in robes and powdered wigs
The posts that form the pen that holds the pigs

Fading away, fading away
Bless our hearts, the Magna Carta coughs and turns away
Fading away, fading away
They bless our hearts while our heartbeat fades away

Just an inconvenient contract, that's all we've ever been
Just an oath to keep some bones beneath our skin
The parchment is the promise and the ink is not a choice
It's the right to speak our minds and raise our voice

Fading away, fading away
Bless our hearts, the Magna Carta coughs and turns away
Fading away, fading away
They bless our hearts while our heartbeat fades away

Madam Magna Carta, the once and futile queen
Retreats into the chambers of our dreams
Cause who can pledge allegiance to the silence of the flag
That's been twisted into a stark and spangled gag

Fading away, fading away
Bless our hearts, the Magna Carta coughs and turns away
Fading away, fading away
They bless our hearts while our voices fade away