Dark Politics - Electric Six

Dark politics leads to the best drag

If you’re sad about the mess we’re in

For all the negatives about the Reichstag

Look what it did for East Berlin

Authoritarians beget subversion

Remember this when you get bummed out

So give your pretty painted eyes up to a virgin

As the fire rubs another one out on you

Ooh yeah!

When night just fell we’ve been here before

We can’t find the keys to turn off the war

But the optimist in me is never sad

The glass is half full but the water tastes bad

'Cause the big lie has already spread

And nobody cares how many books you’ve read

So just enjoy yourself and make some art

Then set it on fire and rip it apart

Smile!

Smile!

It will be dark here for a good long while

And ooh there will be times when you want to die

Smile!

Smile!

And even though you may be oozing bile

And ooh it’s neutralised by the salty tears you cry

When Baron Von Shnitzel turned the last oven off

He left the lights on for Baron von Stroganoff

Who hopped the next junket down to Argentina

He had a baby boy who became a ballerina

She had enough one day and she joined the circus

She came to America, was forced to twerk

She had enough again and after some persistence

She switched teams and she joined the resistance

She danced for the emperor, danced for the king

Danced for the president, it’s all the same thing

And when she got close enough to be on his arm

She became love in the form of a bomb BOOOM

Hey!

Woo!

Smile!

Smile!

It will be dark here for a good long while

And ooh there will be times when you want to die

Smile!

Smile!

Even though you may be oozing bile

And ooh it’s neutralized by the salty tears you cry

The apocalypse will be televised

The revolution will be tossed aside

So pledge your allegiance to fat white guys

While the snowflakes run and hide

The streets are all filled with fire

As the soldiers come marching in

So just mind the fences and the barbed wire

And make nice with the side that wins

And oooooh!

Oooh!

Dark politics walks the long plank

We’ll go further than Tiananmen Square

For every Chinaman who stares down a big tank

There’s a billion who just don’t care

Now the hangman rings the broken bell

And the reaper he leads the dance

And the world spins around like a carousel

Never plays the musical chairs

Smile!

Smile!

It will be dark here for a good long while

And ooh there will be times that you want to die

Smile!

Smile!

And even though you may be oozing bile

And ooh it’s neutralized by the salty tears you cry

Yeah!