The Senator Goes To Hell

from THE ANIMATORS - How We Fight by Alex Wong

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There was a river of limousines
Politicians and men of industry
Second wives
Church bells chiming through
They they took the coffin up the marble stair
Past the statue of his incumbency
Like a shrine to the crimes he's done

Every dignitary here has either feared or paid him well
He was no ordinary man but just as well
The senator goes to hell

They had a writer on air force two
The vice president read his eulogy
Draped the flag over rags and bones
He said: He was a very patriotic man
The very model of southern dignity
Unafraid to call a spade a spade

And you could say he brought the bacon home
to feed his clientele
He would have sold his soul
if he had one to sell
The senator goes to hell
No matter how deep they bury him
he's gonna smell
The senator goes to hell

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from THE ANIMATORS - How We Fight, released April 1, 2006
Written by Devon Copley and Alex Wong

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