222 (Peace And Love)

From the album Buy One, Get One Free by Jeremy Gratton

we’ve got pills to cure other pills
friday night psychics and saturday evening thrills
we’ve got name brand clothes and radios
and plenty of reality tv shows

but what i’d really like to see is a little peace and love

we’ve got batteries and energizer bunnies
we’ve got plastic bushes and christmas trees
we’ve got fine linen and airport security
and little white presidents on green money

but what i’d really like to see is a little peace and love

we’ve got “nucular” weapons of mass destruction
four-year degrees and higher education
we’ve got assholes that went to yale and harvard
and still can’t pronounce a simple word

but what i’d really like to see is a little peace and love

“it’s nuclear you asshole!”

we’ve got an economy of frailty
we gotta work hard to spread the misery
we’ve got indentured servants and democracy
and soda pop with zero calories

but what i’d really like to see is a little peace and love

we’ve got blockbuster films and hollywood hookers
social security numbers and factory workers
i could go on forever about what we have or don’t have
but what i think we really, really ought to have…

is a little more peace and love

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