Interpret:

Joni Mitchell

Album:

Taming The Tiger

The general offered no apologies
He said, "The soldiers erred in judgement
They should have hired a hooker"
No apologies
to the outraged Japanese
No "Sorry little girl"
The pigs just took her


Tire skids and teethmarks
What happened to this place?
Lawyers and loan sharks
Are laying America to waste


Freddie said that Juan thinks
I think he's the devil
What a lofty title
For such a petty little tyrant
Bigger beasts abound
And they kick this world around
At this crazy speed
Of violence and greed


Tire skids and teethmarks
What happened to this place?
Lawyers and loan sharks
Are laying America to waste


So what makes a man a man
In these tough times
As druglords buy up the banks
And warlords radiate the oceans
Ecosystems fail
Snakes and snails and puppy tails
Are wagging in the womb
Beneath the trampled moon


Tire skids and teethmarks
What happened to this place?
Lawyers and loan sharks
Are laying America to waste


The general offered
No apologies