Exploding Toothpaste
There’s two hours left before my plane leaves the gate G
But I’m worried that I might be already late Em
Cuz it’s an orange alert and the line to the x-ray machine C D
goes around and around D
and the TSA rent-a-cop is yelling again
saying keep the line moving like we’re already in
the Soviet Union where everyone says
they could pull you into a room to be never seen again
And I’m really really glad the plane doesn’t explode
But I’ve been on many planes and truth to be told
Not a single plane blew up because a struggling musician
took her guitar on board. Or her toothpaste exploded.
But instead of protesting and making scene C
I just take off my shoes and walk through the machine G
And I wonder how many more lines it will take C
how many more lines, how many more lines… D
You can’t go anywhere without your picture ID
In the home of the brave and the land of the free
What the hell’s the point of saluting the flag
when a mom must put her breast milk in a see-through plastic bag?
Now I got a nice suitcase with a lock on the side
but now all that means is I have something to hide
But since when is a government’s word good enough
to let a man I don't know search through all of my stuff?
And I know that some of you might say I’m being naïve
But I wonder is it gullible to say I believe
While we’re all so fucking worried about liquids and shoes
we should pay more attention to the freedoms we lose
‘cuz they say that we must do everything we must do
but Joseph McCarthy once seemed reasonable too
And I wonder will I ever see
why we’re giving up our freedom so that we can be free--
it’s exploding toothpaste!
we’re trading lives for oil but there’s exploding toothpaste
The ice caps are melting
but there’s exploding toothpaste
You can’t be free while there’s exploding toothpaste
I take off my shoes and pledge allegiance
to the United States of Exploding Toothpaste
