Once They Banned Imagine

We had our heart strings dangling ripe for the yanking

And lot of reasons grabby was good

Poor huddled masses singing boots up their asses

Giving grabby what he needed to pull

All the way back to where ghosts from the past were still

Fighting their wars from the grave

Complete with record burning and threatening and spurning

The crime of getting blood on the page

Since the big one ended we'd been mostly pretending

We'd have had the same gumption and grit

As the greatest among us when harm came upon us

We wouldn't hesitate to defend

But with or against something's been out to get us

And it looked like something finally did

No nobler cause in our lifetime for setting our sails to the wind

But once they banned Imagine it became the same old war its always been

Once they banned Imagine it became the war it was when we were kids

Are you now or have you ever been in cahoots with the notion that people can change

When history happens again if you do or you did you'll be blamed

From baseless inquiry

To no knocking entry

Becoming the law of the land

To half cocked excuses for bullet abuse regarding anything browner than tan

Cause once they banned Imagine it became the same old war its always been

Once they banned Imagine it became the war it was when we were kids