On a cold day in fall
Maybe early winter
No one knows anymore
The calendar's different
We had a glorious coup
A revolutionary new order
The king resigned from his post
We withdrew from the war
Then commenced the massacre.
Oh rise dynasty fall dynasty
Party up party down
Come a blizzard blowing down the barn
Come a blizzard freezing the royal palace
Oh rise dynasty fall dynasty
Party up party down
A new weather pressure front
For a new calendar.
Always with honor the general served
Though his troops were less nobly predisposed
Though in trenches and fields many charges withstood
The most difficult battle assault on home front
Volunteers and deserters loyalists and outlaws
White livery stained red and red ones went pale
The blackhearted beaten blue beating back the pure
By the hundreds and thousands fell left and right falling
The western trenches abandoned remembered more quaintly
And the white to the black to the red bodies turning green
Total commitment who wins to whom goes defeat
Always with dolor the crones croon.
Oh rise dynasty fall dynasty
Party up party down
Come a blizzard blowing down the barn
Come a blizzard freezing the royal palace
Oh rise dynasty fall dynasty
Party up party down
A new weather pressure front
For a new calendar.
So you shot the royal family...
(We just wanted healthcare.)
Really, even the infants.
(We wanted walkable cities.)
Just gunned them down against a wall.
(Two words: Gun. Control.)
And you covered it up.
(The rich must pay their fair share.)
We already took their assets.
(Um get educated.)
I suppose we'll make the best of it.
Oh rise dynasty fall dynasty
Party up party down
Come a blizzard blowing down the barn
Come a blizzard freezing the royal palace
Oh rise dynasty fall dynasty
Party up party down
A new weather pressure front
For a new calendar.
A big minority swallows a little majority
Peacefully now bring a war without end
Peace land and bread
Famine dispossession and dread
A new plan for a new state
A new time for a new place
Still all the same
Like the same old mice and all the same old men
Never quite like we drew it up
Don't expect our apologies
We expect your thanks.
Oh rise dynasty fall dynasty
Party up party down
Come a blizzard blowing down the barn
Come a blizzard freezing the royal palace
Oh rise dynasty fall dynasty
Party up party down
A new weather pressure front
For a new calendar.
Always with dolor the old crones croon
For the damage sustained and the carcasses buried
For profits unrealized and losses unrecouped
Always with color and blush the young maidens swooned
For svelte and suave strength of a machinegunner goon
For the beauty of violence and absolute force
Always with power the powerful stood
And always at the time it felt like an absolute mood
Though always even as with dolor the old crones crooned.
Oh rise dynasty fall dynasty
Party up party down
Come a blizzard blowing down the barn
Come a blizzard freezing the royal palace
Oh rise dynasty fall dynasty
Party up party down
Come a blizzard blowing down the country
Come a blizzard freezing the hearts of its men
Oh rise dynasty fall dynasty
Party up party down
Come a blizzard blowing down the barn
Come a blizzard freezing the royal palace
Oh rise dynasty fall dynasty
Party up party down
Oh rise dynasty fall dynasty
Party up party down...
