I Wanted To Be Wrong

You know where I come from

You know what I feel

You're Yul Brynner Westworld

Reporting from the field

I threw it into reverse

Made a motion to repeal

You kicked my legs from under me

And tried to take the wheel

I told you I wanted to be wrong

But everyone is humming a song

That I don't understand

Now I know that the sun has shined on my side of the street

The basket of America, the weevils and the wheat

The milk and honeyed congregation, scrubbed and apple-cheeked

Salute Apollo 13 from the rattle jewelry seats

Mythology's seductive and it turned a trick on me

That I have just begun to understand

I told you I wanted to be wrong

But everyone is humming a song

That I don't understand

The rodeo is staged, gold circle goat-ropers and clowns

A rumble in the third act, tie 'em up and burn 'em down

We're armed to the teeth, born a little breech

Blue-plate special analysts, cells and SUV's

We can't approach the Allies 'cause they seem a little peeved

And speak a language we don't understand

I told you I wanted to be wrong

But everyone is humming a song

That I don't understand

Prop up The Omega Man, we're primed for victory

God gave us the upper hand, there's honor among thieves

Temper it with arrogance, a dash of sad conceit

The top's down on the T-Bird, we're the children of the free

Storm into the boardroom of the conquering elite

Did you recognize the madman who is shouting in the streets?

Destroy the things that I don't understand

Destroy the things that I don't understand