Michael Culhane - Last Licks Lyrics

You push your meaning over
To save on politics
Push your meaning
Just a couple of ticks
Until the same bricks
Playin' politics
Are 'air-guitar'-ing with their air picks
To your rhythm on their radio
Too bad their brains are birds'
Too bad they'll never get the words

You put your meaning over
And lost the art
Playin' politics
It wasn't a lost cause from the start
Until the same Dicks
(Cheney, Nixon...)
In a fix
Crank things up
Another couple of ticks
Til you're on
Uncivil defense radio
From Watergate to 'Homeland' tricks
The honest man still gets last licks

But it's
Push your meaning over
Save our politics
Push your meaning over
A couple of ticks

Squish your meaning over here
'Save our politics of fear'
Squish your meaning over, dear
Just a... couple of ticks

Just a couple, a dozen,
A couple of, just a couple of dozen ticks

(Tick, tock, tick, tock)

We're all in the same mix
But when the brass
So loud
The kick drum never
Gets his kicks
To the rhythm on your radio
The same refrain is heard
Can't memorize a word

Push your meaning over
It's time to "86" your meaning
Over, over
Wait for just a couple of ticks
'Til you're civil on your own Public Radio
In self defense
The new owner wants his defense contracts
To go through
Loopholes
While you jump
Through hoop holes

(You're playin' politics)