Columbia Is Bleeding

Song Columbia Is Bleeding
Artist Nellie McKay
Album Pretty Little Head

Lyrics

[00:11.23] Another day begins
[00:14.64] And there you are
[00:15.77]
[00:17.83] The mother sways her shins
[00:19.83]
[00:21.27] Here comes the footstep of the man who'll make your dreams
[00:27.09]
[00:29.39] The tube is fitted in
[00:30.96]
[00:32.83] And there you are
[00:33.94]
[00:36.07] The tepid seditive
[00:37.68]
[00:39.15] Then a scream
[00:45.53] Hold your placard up
[00:46.19] Cold and coffee cup
[00:46.83] After go to a bar
[00:48.64] Hand your flier out
[00:49.39] Must admire
[00:49.70] How dedicated you are
[00:51.58] I don't wanna know if you're having fun
[00:53.29] Or your maddens are on sale
[00:54.85] I don't wanna know if you've got a gun or a new stepson
[00:57.04] Or you think you're gonna bail
[00:59.03] Chris hougan
[00:59.97] She had to run
[01:01.08] Last night been a lot of fun
[01:02.53] But now it's french
[01:03.59] A little tense
[01:04.15] She hadn't done the reading
[01:05.49] There she sat
[01:06.44] Hoped to pass
[01:07.19] Didn't think to face the fact
[01:08.70] That oh by gosh o lack o lass
[01:10.38] Columbia is bleeding
[01:11.88] Walkin down
[01:12.62] Off the bus
[01:13.38] Vickie lucas crossed campus was
[01:15.12] Thinkin how she's made it now
[01:16.50] That successful feeling
[01:17.94] Walked by fast
[01:18.84] Hailed a cab
[01:19.71] No clue that she'd passed a lab
[01:21.21] And while she's sittin in lit class
[01:22.83] Columbia is bleeding
[01:26.41] The surgeon is in town
[01:27.91]
[01:29.79] And there you are
[01:31.04]
[01:32.80] The clamp is comin' down
[01:34.36]
[01:35.92] Then a scream
[01:42.23] Everybody knows protestors are those
[01:43.92] Schmoes who don't have a life
[01:45.42] See these scientists seeking differences
[01:46.48] Have to suffer such strife
[01:48.23] I don't wanna know if you're havin fun
[01:49.85] Or your maddens are on sale
[01:51.53] I don't wanna know if you got a gun or a new stepson
[01:53.78] Or you think you're gonna bail
[01:56.20] Generalize, proselytize, verbs were spillin out their sides
[01:59.07] As charles eise buys his supplies gets ready for a feeding
[02:02.38] Tried for track
[02:03.25] Hit the mat
[02:04.07] Didn't think to face the fact
[02:05.51] That while he's thinkin 'man that's wack'
[02:06.93] Columbia is bleeding
[02:08.29] Quite a snob he didn't tip
[02:10.04] Nice guy rob watched the eclipse
[02:11.23] And looked around
[02:12.43] 'I've made it now
[02:13.24] I'm just so glad to be here'
[02:14.94] Made a pass
[02:15.63] Got hand slapped
[02:16.44] Didn't think to face the fact
[02:17.64] That while he's mackin on that ***
[02:19.33] Columbia is bleeding
[02:20.70]
[02:28.69] You don't have a religion
[02:31.38] But you have fingers ten
[02:34.18]
[02:34.75] They clutch at your incision
[02:38.24] You roll them up and
[02:39.88] Then a scream
[02:48.46]
[02:49.39] They're just animals
[02:50.02] Make good edibles
[02:50.64] Fester filth and disease
[02:52.45] Check the bible son
[02:53.33] We got dominion
[02:53.95] We can do as we please
[02:55.57] I don't wanna know if you're havin fun
[02:57.19] Or your maddens are on sale
[02:58.63] I don't wanna know if you've got a gun or a new stepson
[03:01.00] Or you think you're gonna bail
[03:02.81] Hell
[03:03.50] Tee tee green
[03:04.00] Mezzanine
[03:04.97] Ended up beside the team
[03:06.42] And gave a cheer
[03:07.34] Got some beers
[03:08.10] With friends who started streakin
[03:09.68] Back with zach said 'I look fat'
[03:11.17] Didn't think to face the fact
[03:12.56] That while she's under self-attack
[03:14.19] Columbia is bleeding
[03:15.68] Rodney j began to pray
[03:17.14] His momma lost her life that day
[03:18.70] Had been a year
[03:19.57] It wasn't clear
[03:20.19] If he was safe or screamin
[03:21.88] As he jabbed the bible flap
[03:23.44] He didn't think to face the fact
[03:24.88] That barbarism killed the cat
[03:26.62] Columbia is bleeding
[03:28.14]
[03:30.20] This is the ivy league
[03:31.90]