16 Military Wives

Album: Picaresque (2005)
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  • Sixteen military wives
    Thirty-two softly focused brightly colored eyes
    Staring at the natural tan of thirty-two gently clenching wrinkled little hands
    Seventeen company men
    Out of which only twelve will make it back again
    Sergeant sends a letter to five
    Military wives whose tears drip down from ten little eyes

    Cheer them on to their rivals
    'Cause America can, and America can't say no
    And America does, if America says it's so
    It's so
    And the anchor person on TV
    Goes la di da di da

    Fifteen celebrity minds
    Leading their fifteen sordid, wretched, checkered lives
    Will they find the solution in time
    Using their fifteen crispy moderate liberal minds

    Eighteen academy chairs
    Out of which only seven really even cares
    Doling out the garland to five
    Celebrity minds, they're humbly taken by surprise

    Cheer them on to their rivals
    'Cause America can, and America can't say no
    And America does, if America says it's so
    It's so
    And the anchor person on TV
    Goes la di da di da
    La di da di da

    Fourteen cannibal kings
    Wondering blindly what the dinner bell will bring
    Fifteen celebrity minds
    Served on a leafy bed of sixteen military wives

    Cheer them on to their rivals
    'Cause America can, and America can't say no
    And America does, if America says it's so
    It's so
    And the anchor person on TV
    Goes la di da di da
    La di da di da
    La di da di da
    La di da di da Writer/s: COLIN MELOY
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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