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Why We Can't Have Nice Things

from You're Not Cleared For This by D.J. McGuire

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Parody of "My Favorite Things" by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II

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Watching the White House play footsie with tyrants
Subsidies for coal but not health insurance
Crap in a box with “reform” labeling
These are the reasons we can’t have nice things

Imposing tariffs and exiting trade deals
All to save jobs that in practice are not real
Tax reform that is in fact no such thing
These are the reasons we can’t have nice things

When the news breaks
On my phone screen
And I’m feeling sad
I think of the reasons we can’t have nice things
But none of that makes me glad

Ship of State led by a buffoon so bitter
Careful diplomacy blown up on Twitter
Beauty Pageants with Roy Moore in the wings
These are the reasons we can’t have nice things

Having to rely for reason on Mike Pence
Did I just say something nice about Mike Pence?!?!
What the fuck could four more years of this bring?
These are the reasons we can’t have nice things

When the news breaks
On my phone screen
I’m no longer sad
To paraphrase one of Mikey Mason’s songs
The better descriptor’s mad

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from You're Not Cleared For This, released July 24, 2020
Instruments and Vocals by DJ McGuire

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D.J. McGuire Suffolk, Virginia

My love of sci-fi/fantasy and my experience as a federal contractor take my muse to interesting places.

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