What do you get when you fall in love?
You get a lot of pain and trauma
Even with Barack Obama
I’ll never fall in love again!
What do you get when you vote your heart?
You get some heavy bailout spending
An economic downturn that’s unending
I’ll never fall in love again!
Don’t tell me, I know I took a chance
I was swept away by pure romance
He spoke so well, he wrote two books
His kids were cute, he had great looks.
I knew he was civilized, maybe a pleaser
Still, who wanted the GOP geezer?
And Hillary was so inflexible
And probably non-electable.
So, what do you get when you fall in love?
You get a stalled out health reform plan
A beefed up fresh war in Afghanistan
(Which falls in line with military bidding.
He told us he’d do it, we thought he was kidding!)
You get to ask yourself sadly whether
He’ll ever crack Congressional heads together
Lose his temper, throw his weight around,
Wheedle, threaten, cajole and pound
(Like FDR and LBJ
Did when they wanted to get their way).
What do you get when you fall in love
And were carried along by a great campaign
Where Plouffe and Axelrod held close the rein
So it’s only later you focus in on the guy
And ask, is there less here than meets the eye.
What do you get when you fall in love?
You get to wonder if it was dense
To opt for so little experience.
He was eloquent, cool, and racially mixed,
And you went down like a ton of bricks—
So if it’s lost its savor, the salt,
You wonder, was any of this your fault?
Should you have looked in another direction?
Who knows, but at least til the next election…
I’ll never fall in love again!