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HummerCopyright © 2006 Ken Ficara
Ken Ficara: Vocals, guitar, harmonica, bass harmonica
Produced by Ken Ficara
Recorded on Park Place
We're running out of oil and the climate's changing
Gas costs three bucks a gallon and change and
It's hard to imagine anything dumber
Than spending fifty thousand dollars on a Hummer
"It's my money," you like to say
But General Motors took your money away
They're getting rich, and you're being wasteful
For half the price you could have had something tasteful
Driving in your Hummer -- You can't keep it in lane
Parking is a bummer -- It's crooked again!
High up in your Hummer -- You can't even see
Down the road you lumber -- ridiculously
Soldiers in Iraq drive Hummers every day
Hoping the insurgents don't blow them away
Do you think about them as you drive to the store?
Is your big toy truck worth a long bloody war?
It's got a yellow ribbon magnet that you stuck on the back
I'm sure that means a lot to those troops in Iraq
But who are you supporting as you fill up the tank
The terrorists are laughing all the way to the bank
And you're driving your Hummer -- you don't care
Sure the war's a bummer -- but it's way over there
High up in your Hummer -- You don't have to see
Down the road you lumber -- callously
Our navigator got us lost
Chose to Escalade despite the cost
The Commander was full of hot air
The Excursion got us nowhere
No one drives Hummers any more
Since they banned SUVs at the end of the war
You sold it for scrap and bought a little car
Still your gasoline ration doesn't go very far
You sit in the dark in the daily blackout
Wishing you could take the Hummer back out
Wishing you were still the biggest one on the block
Wishing that America could turn back the clock
Wishing for your Hummer -- wishing you could stand tall
Every day you wonder -- how we lost it all
High up in your Hummer -- and you never did see
Down the road you blundered -- arrogantly
Down the road you blundered -- cluelessly