Inauguration Day

Backstage and you're feeling low

Nice to meet you, John

You ready for the show?

I really wish I was home

In my leather-bound chair

and the girl who does my hair

15 seconds 'til the green light

They told me what to say

Experts and diplomats, generals and bureaucrats

Who I should probably pay

They said the whole world's watching

But I can't help from talking today

Looking out on the lawn

It's not the best lawn I've seen

It's not even that green

And that boy better watch his mouth

So he caught a black eye

Something's wrong with that guy

Now John says, "Raise your right"

This is my favorite part

The solemnly, the humbly, the faithfully, the dutifully

This prestige, it is my art

They said the whole world's crying

But I can't hold up my end today

My fellow countrymen

I can't begin to explain

How good it feels to win again

All the things I'm gonna do

Turn back the clock

To a simpler thought, that you thought you knew

So then the prompter is a blur

And now it's just you and me

With the suffering, the worrying, the shouting, the pillaging

In a land that feels so free

They said the whole world's hoping

They say the whole world's hoping

And now nobody's joking

They said the whole world's hoping

But I'm not sure where I am today