"House of Cards (World Trade Center song)" genre: Folk
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	This song is about the September 11th terrorist attacks. It's frank and sad and a bit wry.
	Story Behind the Song This song touches on a lot of subjects, but mostly it's about American culture, good and bad. It's also about heros and mythology and loss of innocence. Lyrics I thought that we were a superpower I thought that we were a superpower but they knocked down our towers like a house of cards I guess that we don’t have super powers I guess that we don’t have super powers superman, superman, superman, where have you gone? where have you gone? and what about Batman? and those power-puff girls? GI Joe, where did you go? did you know that this happened before on the 79th floor a bomber smashed into the side 13 people died but it was not the world trade center it was the empire state and the building didn’t fall I think King Kong, King Kong must’ve saved us all but where has he gone? king kong, where have you gone? godzilla would have fought on our side everybody on tv is singing patriotic songs gotta keep this country united gotta keep this country strong halleluja, praise to the lord, everybody sing but remember that god didn’t do a god-damned thing so where has he gone? sweet Jesus, where have you gone? holy Krishna, where have you gone? oh Allah, where have you gone? I hope that they don’t make a movie but I know that they probably will I hope that it’s better than Pearl Harbor which wasn’t that much of a thrill they’ll turn it into a love story they’ll get everything wrong they’ll get Celine Dion to sing them a song, song, song a song, song, song well where have you gone, Franklin Roosevelt? where have you gone, Winston Churchill? everyone’s blaming the arabs and muslims I think it’s a pity how quickly we’ve forgotten Oaklahoma City Tim McVeigh was a christian Tim McVeigh was a white but we never threw rocks through the windows of christian-owned businesses no that wouldn’t be “right” and after Columbine they blamed computer games they blamed marilyn manson well you would be a fool to blame Paula Abdul but will you blame Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft’s flight simulator? oh where have you gone? Bill Gates, Frank Zappa, Walt Disney, Dr. Seuss, Mr. Rogers, Elvis Presley, Paul Bunyan, Uncle Sam thousands of people are suddenly gone the world trade center, boom and it’s gone part of the Pentagon is gone all of our innocence is gone, gone, gone... and it happened so quickly it didn’t even seem hard suddenly the whole world stikes me as a big ‘ol house of cards so praise the lord and pass the ammo there’s a war we’re gonna fight I only hope we pick our enemy right and god bless america land of the free let’s hold on, hold on... to that statue of liberty

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