Story Behind The Song

About the time we learned that there were no weapons of mass destruction, yet everyone said YES to war in Iraq, when that failed miserably after "Mission Accomplished" and you were called unpatriotic for questioning this madness, when this president and his administration have done more to destroy all that America is supposed to stand for by supposedly fighting in the name of "freedom" and "democracy" around the world you wonder where are the angry young men? Where is the revolution? Am I on another planet?

Song Description

A song about waking up in America and feeling completely alienated from everything you believe to be true, good and normal as a result of people swallowing the Cool Aid that this Bush administration has been dishing out. The feeling that you've awoken on another planet where up is down and black is white.

Lyrics

i woke up on the wrong side of the world
i woke up on the wrong side of the world
and the devil mocks my way. that's what Jesus told me yesterday.
i woke up on the wrong side of the world
and the people seem so strange. they say they know my kind, but they don't even know my name.

why you gotta get deep? they tell me, don't you want to belong?
why you gotta get so deep, they tell me? don't you want to belong?
and he could see my point of view. i was either:
LIBERAL
GAY
OR PERHAPS A JEW... A JEW ! !
i woke up on the wrong side of the world
it's like they preach on that election day, you better get with GOD or you better get out of our way

no, no, i'm not blind, i just don't like what i see.
no, no, i'm not blind, i just don't like what i see.
and maybe freedom's not so great, if you gotta kill everyone you try to liberate
i woke up on the wrong side of the world
you say that HELL will freeze before you sing my tune. you better practice hard
it's getting kind of cold for June

you feel it?