26-Hour Day (Live) - Jay Brannan

Written by：Jay Brannan

Once upon our time

In a land far gone

Where hate crimes enforced by state crime

Even though they say the land of

The free was made for both you and me

Well the girl next door might have cancer

And the hospital nearby got the answer but

Shes never been there can't afford health care

In the arms of the home of the brave shes carried to her grave

Marionettes for presidents strung out on wars

And were not sure who American anymore

Division of church and state is my kind of separatism

Spreading gods love through scare tactics is casual terrorism

And if abortions murder let's strip that right away and

Who gave women the right to vote anyway

So many babies

Brought into the world today

Among so many maybes

Like maybe they'll feel loved be provided for and have a place to stay

But instead of placing them in loving stable homes

That might not fill the conservative bill

They're tossed around the foster system like a hot potato

Instead of making friends of Dorothy

They're thrown to the tornado

Death warrants signed by murderers

Who came to power through the back door

Is this democracy or a monarchy

What do we hold elections for

You write your personal agenda on a post it note

And leave the constitution lying on the bathroom floor

This is for the world trade center for columbine

For Oklahoma city and the lost and lonely friends of mine

For Ireland Iran Iraq

And the suffering caused by the Indian oceans attack

For faun gong and the Berlin wall

The homeless the hungry and slaves to drugs and alcohol

Indian Australian African slaves

Native Americans whose amber waves of grain

Were melted down into white men riches

Victims of war and for sales witches

For boys who were told to act more like boys

And girls who were told to only play with girl toys

The voiceless forgotten plagued by disease

God help us please please please

Maybe one day I'll stop alternating

Between thirteen hours of eating and thirteen hours of sleeping

And do something about it with

What I guess could have been a twenty-six hour day