This weekend, on A Prairie Home Companion, Randy Newman performed “A Few Words in Defense of Our Country”.
A President once said,
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itselfâ€Now it seems like we’re supposed to be afraid
It’s patriotic in fact and color codedAnd what are we supposed to be afraid of?
Why, of being afraidThat’s what terror means, doesn’t it?
That’s what it used to mean