(to the tune of Bohemian Rhapsody)
Inspired by this tweet from Dave Weigel
Is this the real news?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in the cycle
No escape to reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I’m a swing voter (Poor boy)
I watch news on TV
Because I’m easy come, easy go
Polling high, polling low
Any way the wind blows
Doesn’t really matter to me, to me
Mama just saw a man
With a ballot in his hand
Pull a lever, take a stand.
Mama, the race has just begun
But now he’s gone and thrown it all away
Mama, ooh
Didn’t mean to make you cry
If I’ve not change my mind this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters
It’s too late, Glenn Beck has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Mind is aching all the time
Goodbye, everybody
I’ve got to go
Gotta leave the truth behind and live the lie.
Mama, oooooooh (Anyway the wind blows)
I don’t want to choose
Sometimes wish I’d never been given the vote
[Guitar Solo]
I see a little silhouetto of a man
Ezra Klein! Ezra Klein! Will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me
(Yglesias) Yglesias (Yglesias) Yglesias, Yglesias Figaro
Politico-o-o-o-o
I’m just a voter nobody loves me
He’s just a voter from a rich family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
Dave Weigel! No, we will not let you go
Let him go
Dave Weigel! We will not let you go
Let him go
Dave Weigel! We will not let you go
Let me go (Will not let you go)
Let me go (Will not let you go) (Never, never, never, never)
Let me go, o, o, o, o
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
(Oh mama mia, mama mia) Mama Mia, let me go
Conspiracy! Have the Palins put aside for me, for me, for me!?
So you think you can sway me with ads that are fly?
So you think I will love you for ads that you buy?
Oh, baby, can’t do this to me, baby
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here
[Guitar Solo]
(Oooh yeah, Oooh yeah)
Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters
Nothing really matters to me
Any way the wind blows…