No Apologies

Joni Mitchell · Beginning Of Survival [2004]

The general offered no apologies

He said, "The soldiers erred in judgment

They should have hired a hooker"

No apologies to the outraged Japanese

No "Sorry little girl" the pigs just took her



Tire skids and teethmarks

What happened to this place?

Lawyers and loan sharks

Are laying America to waste



Freddie said that Juan thinks

I think he's the devil

What a lofty title

For such a petty little tyrant



Bigger beasts abound

And they kick this world around

At this crazy speed

Of violence and greed



Tire skids and teethmarks

What happened to this place?

Lawyers and loan sharks

Are laying America to waste



So what makes a man a man

In these tough times

As drug lords buy up the banks

And warlords radiate the oceans



Ecosystems fail

Snakes and snails and puppy tails

Are wagging in the womb

Beneath the trampled moon



Tire skids and teethmarks

What happened to this place?

Lawyers and loan sharks

Are laying America to waste



The general offered

No apologies