Lied to by the Right

Indicia

• parody of: Blinded by the Light (mainly the Manfred Mann version)

Lyrics

chorus:
Lied to by the Right
Revved up by some douchebag, gettin' ready for a fight

Fascists, wingnut, pundits, trollin' on the forums
for a toddler president.
They'd never admit the fact they just don't give a whit
but you can see that's what they really meant.
We used to get a bonus but now they think they own us
as they loan us our monthly rent.
Now they mire us with a virus as they starve us and they tire us
for the sake of the one percent.

For the sake of the one percent, oh they've been...
chorus:
Brainwashed by the Right
Berserk like a Viking, gettin' ready for a fight

Some gun-totin' sister playin' tyranny resister
crashed the Capitol like a thief
She said "We want to go back to when the country was strong,
with a dictator commander-in-chief."
With a passion and a trashin' as the windows got a smashin'
thinkin' revolution's in the bag
This full-moon Daniel Boone pseudo-shaman looney-tune
wraps himself up in the flag.

Wraps himself up in the flag, oh they were
chorus:
Blinded by the Right
Dressed up like a Nazi, armed and ready for a fight

She fought hard, but she couldn't win the fight
against the lying from the Right.

Mama always told me not to talk to anyone who's not us.
But Mama -- that's where the truth is!

They say rioting and looting is a much worse crime than shooting
cuz it's puttin' the profits down
and the ruthless truth is they think it's just the smoothest
when the wealthy get to trash a town.
With a kinda disgusting posturing and blustering
authoritarians strut and preen
It gets rough to rebuff all the adolescent stuff
from the faces up on the screen.

[coda pt 1]
Fascists, wingnut, pundits, trollin' on the forums
for a toddler president.
They'd never admit the fact they just don't give a whit
but you can see that's what they really meant.
We used to get a bonus but now they think they own us
as they loan us our monthly rent.
Now they mire us with a virus as they starve us and they tire us
for the sake of the one percent.
[counter-verse]
With regret, deep in dept, I'm reading on the net
how all my problems are all my fault
Repeated by some rando quoting paid-up propaganda
some gazillionaire's campaign bought.
[coda]
Some gun-totin' sister playin' tyranny resister
crashed the Capitol like a thief
She said "We want to go back to when the country was strong!..."

She fought hard, but she couldn't win the fight
against the lying from the Right.