Blog Soundtrack

I've just noticed that the very fine D.C. band Monopoli has a song called "Hit and Run" (MP3). While it's not actually about this blog (I hope), the lyrics (below the fold) as I initially heard them struck me as quasi-fitting. It's an anti-imperialist satire, but for the significant chunk of us living in the DC area, it can be read as applying more straightforwardly, since we are, after all "in the belly of the beast" hoping to "make the world a better place than home." Well, if you ignore the bit about dragging slaves through the street, at least.

Anyway, it's an infectious little tune, which I'm henceforth going to consider the unofficial blog theme song. I figure those of us in the anti-war camp can dig it as a satire, and those of us working out of DC can hear it as a tongue-in-cheek anthem. Two levels of irony for the price of one.

Hit & Run
Written by: Alfonso Velez
(C)2004

In the belly of the beast
In the last place to fall
Nothing went up in flames
No tearing down the walls

Say nothing to his face
Say nothing
he's a thief
But you don't make the calls
around here

Where we're up working all night
In the Rome of the Empire
Trying to make the world a better place than home.
That's right.

Do you Hit and Run?
Do you Hit and Run?

We're trying to free the slaves
And teach them to behave
Give them food for thought
But when they think too much
Cross them off the list
String them by the wrists
Drag them through their town
So they can hear the sounds of Freedom

Where we're all working all night
In the Rome of the Empire
Trying to make the world a better place than home.
That's right.

Do something smart. Say something dear,
In the Belly of the Beast. "You Holding up?"
Do something smart. Say something dear,
In the Belly of the Beast. "You Holding up?"