Pride of the Yankees

Ladies and Gentlemen pull out your hankies
 Lou Gehrig was the Pride of the Yankees
 Mothers and Daddies, wrap up your children
 King Kong has fallen off the building today
 The sky is falling the sky is falling
 Wish I could hideaway safe in the mall
 Something is constantly scheming and brewing
 To make our lives a disaster movie
 And all of the pundits and bandits and speakers
 And gadgets and two hundred dollar sneakers
 Will all be so useless in conjuring Jesus
 In baseball and science and naming diseases away
 Too many firemen and virgins in heaven
 It's all been fucked up since Nine Eleven
 What we're all fighting and what we're defending
 One big long story with two different endings today
 Now I am holding you here in my arms
 Trying my best to shelter you from harm
 When everything is so crazy and wrapped up in shiny
 Problems so big and you're so tiny today