It’s never been clearer to me than after Operation Metro Surge that ordinary Americans take very seriously JFK’s call to give back to your country. The contrast between the rest of us and this abhorrent MAGA grift is becoming more obvious by the day. I’ve got three different genres of this song. If you want to hear them, subscribe to my YouTube channel.
Lyrics
Ask Not
She clocks out late and drives the long way round,
Stops by the shelf where the hunger line is found,
He’s forty years a lineman, hands cracked and cold,
First truck out when the blizzard takes hold.
Nobody asked them twice, nobody had to plead,
They read the room and they answer the need.
Ask not what your country can do for you,
Ask what you can do for your country, it’s true,
That’s the deal that J.F.K. said we’d keep,
That’s the debt patriots still pay but some just reap.
At MAGA, Inc. they don’t climb, they buy the stairs,
Ask the country to underwrite their affairs,
A jet from Qatar lands soft on the tarmac floor,
Trump calls it a gift; we know it’s a bribe, and pay for more.
The Reflecting Pool’s three million turned to seventeen,
No bid, no blink, and the money remains unseen.
Ask not what your country can do for you,
Ask what you can do for your country, it’s true,
Republicans turned the whole thing around,
They’re stealing our taxes and giving no ground.
Trump signs the deal, and the deal gives to Trump,
Every favor’s a trade, and every trade’s got a bump,
The G.O.P. preached bootstraps, then sold off the boots,
Bootstraps for you, subsidies for them: It does not compute.
They call it freedom when the tax bill’s their reward,
They call it patriotism when it’s power they hoard.
But she’s still at the shelter when the shift is done,
And he’s still on the pole before the morning sun,
The ethic never left us, we just got outspent,
By men who never asked what the country meant.
The debt’s always been paid; we paid it every day,
We must root out the corruption that treats us as prey
Ask not what your country can do for you,
Ask what you can do for your country, it’s true,
We kept our half and we never once withdrew,
Now it’s your turn: What will you do?