Digging Out

Also released as: Remix

Intro

Verse 1

There were cherry trees standing since nineteen-twelve
Pink and white every April, a gift we didn't deserve
Now the roots are in a dumpster and the lawn's turned to clay
"It's progress," that's what they hollered, "get out of the way"

Pre-Chorus

I watched the wrecking ball swing on the evening news
A hundred years of history gone to build him a view
Nobody asked us — no, nobody asked
Just backhoes before sunrise and a hole where the past was

Chorus

We'll be diggin' out for decades, Lord, if we're lucky at all
Diggin' out from under him, brick by broken wall
The East Wing's gone to rubble, the reflecting pool run dry
And he wants the Kennedy Center next — kiss it all goodbye

Verse 2

There's a man up in the tower breaks his toys when he don't win
Now he's got the whole damn house and there's no stoppin' him
Paved over the helipad, said the old one wouldn't do
Freedom, that's what he's sellin' — freedom for a few

Pre-Chorus

Forty trillion in the hole and still he's diggin' down
Says he'll drop the hammer on Iran and call it winnin' now
Nobody asked us — no, nobody asked
Just the bill comin' due while the cameras flash

Chorus

Bridge

And I don't know what's left to salvage
When they finally lower him down
I don't know what'll still be standing
Or if there's still gonna be a town
But we've buried worse, and we built again
We've carried worse, and we're carryin' still
So hand me a shovel, hand me a hammer
We got some diggin' to do, and we got the will

Final Chorus

We'll be diggin' out for decades, Lord, if we're lucky at all
Diggin' out from under him, brick by broken wall
The East Wing's gone to rubble, the reflecting pool run dry
But we'll plant new trees up over him — watch 'em climb up to the sky

Outro

Watch 'em climb up to the sky...
Diggin' out...
Diggin' out, if we're lucky...

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