Spin
9/3/00, Kerrville TX
Drop D

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Six o'clock dinner, the family falls silent
Move over a little I can't see the screen
The man in the box speaks in high definition
Turn it up loud so I won't hear the screams
More about bad things the bad guys are doing
More about how I need what they sell
And right down the road they are building a prison
On the whole the economy's doing quite well

(Chorus:)
Give me the update, tell me again
Show me the difference between us and them
Give it a number between one and ten
Give me the headline
Give me the spin

A picture is fading inside of a wallet
Inside of a pocket in the pants of a man
Soggy with saltwater there in the dark
In a dead submarine from a faraway land
Saltwater runs down the face of a woman
As she thinks how he can't be all he could be
Need I point out the pointless pointing of fingers
And the point of a missile that's pointed at me?

(Bridge:)
Our side appears to be up for the moment
They taste defeat we decide they deserve
We shoot the horizon and catch our own bullets
And find it is only the hatred we serve

(Chorus:)
Give me the update, tell me again
Show me the difference between us and them
Give it a number between one and ten
Give me the headline
Give me the spin

And by the way...

... This is one of two songs on Good Tar that I chose to re-record on the album Spin (we changed the title from Element at the last minute) in order to do studio versions of them. It's one of those strange songs that became more true after it was written. At the time that I wrote the line "Give it a number between one and ten," for instance, no one had any idea that soon there would be a color-coded security threat indicator announced on the nightly news. I've seen a bumper sticker from time to time that says "I don't believe the liberal media." On the contrary, I don't believe IN the liberal media.

David

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