(What Are You Gonna Do With the) Country

Hopped into my pickup truck,
spun the radio to the talky talk show,
and the man on the air was saying,
in his soft and spooky voice,
what are you gonna do with the country?

Another man said, another woman said,
well all the things that can be done
have already been imagined for the country,
the borders drawn the laws put on,
and every state ratified to make their own hell.

Now we're gonna haggle over what
we're gonna screw up in the next four,
because that's what they're playing in the bingo halls,
the game of what can they do
that, for better or worse, can be done in this country.

They're all lining up,
and it's still a year away,
and they've been doing it
for longer than the last president
took the seat of the country.