Lyrics Graham Parker

Graham Parker

Turn It Into Hate

The jug heads hit the city from every country round the globe

The ships pulled in the drinks were free the ticker tape came out in rolls

I was sitting in a bar watching this on TV

To me it looked like a failure but they called it victory

Well if you can sleep at night go ahead that's great

You're just dreaming anyway if you don't get irate

Come on turn it into hate Turn it into hate

Send your little boys and girls to go and play in a giant sandbox

Put your movie stars on the cover of People for goin' in for a detox

Let your happy-face news readers share a little joke

at the end of the night's transmission

Let's see the world through the eyes

of some clown gonna make all of your decisions

Well if you can sleep at night go ahead that's great

It's all been manufactured like the junk that's on your plate

Some of them lead the marching band suddenly they're war heroes

Some of them fall in a foreign land Suddenly they're just zeroes

Some of us go back to sleep Some of us learn to fear it

There's a siren blowin' in your heart You just don't want to hear it

Well if you can sleep at night go ahead that's all right

Ah just don't start a fight with anyone rich and white

Turn it, turn it, turn it, turn it Turn it into hate