America For Beginners

What's keeping the White House, white

Is it chalk, is it fog, is it fear

Are they staying up most of the night

Sending somebody out for a beer

Is it bedtime for Bonzo, is it time for a change

Is it flavour-free TV dinners

It's a hard thing to take, when they make a mistake

America for beginners

The sound of a bell with a crack

Even the swingers are swinging right

The vigilantes are on their way back

With prime time fight, the good fight

What a start to the day, it starts three times with a K

There's no sponsored hour for sinners

They'll bring back the hot seat, turn up the heat

America for beginners

That's America for, America for beginners

That's America for, America for beginners

That's America for, America for beginners

That's America for beginners

You wear designer jeans after dark

Your shirts are short cut, in satin

But watch out for Central Park

The apartment's in uptown Manhattan

It's a sign of the times

You'd better stay out in front

They've only got time for winners

Just keep living for fun, you son of a gun

In America for beginners

That's America for, America for beginners

That's America for, America for beginners

That's America for, America for beginners

That's America for beginners

Everywhere the stripes and stars

Men in dark suits and unmarked cars

Sipping Jack Daniels in Third World bars

We're close to the edge, as close as we can get

We're as close as we can get