Lyrics for Progressives

Inspired by Media Girl, and with a smidgen of influence from DED Space, combined with the war in Iraq, the Downing Street Memo, "conservative values", policies and priorities, their attitudes towards sex, and their lingo, not to mention President Bush - all of this puts me in the mind of these song lyrics:

"Gimmie Some Truth"

I'm sick and tired of hearing things
From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocritics
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
I've had enough of reading things
By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of hope
Money for dope
Money for rope

[repeat]

I'm sick to death of seeing things
From tight-lipped, condescending, mama's little chauvinists
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth now

I've had enough of watching scenes
Of schizophrenic, ego-centric, paranoiac, prima-donnas
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of soap
It's money for dope
Money for rope

Ah, I'm sick and tired of hearing things
from uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocrites
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth now

I've had enough of reading things
by neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth now

All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth now
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth

From John Lennon's "Imagine" album. Lyrics via The Legend of John Lennon.

Update (7/8/05): I'm adding a dailyblogher tag, partly to see how this works, and also to add a link to War on Error's similarly Lennon-themed "Imagine" post.