Fall of the American Empire

Did you get the invitation?
The swan song of a nation
Everyone's waiting for you inside
We got soda pop and hickory stills
Quinn the Eskimo in espadrilles
And Sally making you feel all right

The baroness and her bayonets
The mad hatter hedging bets
Against the good judgment of the swinging king
It's the fall of the American empire
But don't you worry honey you didn't miss a thing

Juiced up dignitaries getting' loose like Thelonious did
We got our own sanctimonious kid
And he can suck the diamond off a diamond ring
Just send in the farmers in the National Guard
We'll be in the war room getting hard
Just wear your dress blues you know you look so damn dashing
Don't be shy, Sally won't bite you
Cause she got her pants on fire
And she got a rabbit baby calling your name

Fall of the American empire
It should've been all right
Should've, should've
But me, I'm just working a sound bite
Just rolling my smokes tight
You know they said it was all right, all right, all right

Cause Lucy's in the nude
With nothing left to lose
Except them thigh-high kiss the sky American boots

Sally got dirty with a senator's son
You know the one from Massachusetts
She was pleased to come his advances
For he was a man of wealth and taste
But she got so cut up by the man who would not stop
Thought all she needed was love
But it was like nothing she thought
And when Lucy came to get her
In the corner she lay

It's the fall of the American empire
It should've been all right
Should've, should've
But me, I'm just working a sound bite
Just rolling my smokes tight
You know they said it was all right, all right, all right, all right, all right
Where you going Mr. Holy?
All right, all right, all right
Say where you going Mr. Holy?

Lucy girl I found your diamonds
They shine like sirens
Singing from the shoals of buzzard's bay
It's worse than we know
How I wish it wasn't so
That all tomorrow's parties have gone away

Fall (all in for the fall) of the American empire
They said you would never go away
Fall (all in for the fall) of the American empire
Lucy girl can't you just stay?