Barenaked Ladies — Fun & Games

[Verse 1] We sent in the army, they sounded alarms, we Saw it coming from a mile away We kept it off radar 'cause we had to say our Intentions were to save the day Why did you fail to see? [Chorus] It was a gag, it was all for a laugh And they were shocked and they were awed and they were blown in half Fun and games, we're just pulling legs We knew this barrel of fun would be a powder keg [Verse 2] We kept it all long-range and made a regime change You'd have thought it would have been a gas But when it got ugly, we sat around smugly Because you bought our little joke en masse Don't look at me that way [Chorus] It was a gag, it was all for a laugh We knew your sons and daughters would be blown in half Fun and games, we're just pulling legs We knew this barrel of fun would be a powder keg [Bridge] Put a smile on, we're the ones that you selected Leave that dial son, because we just got re-elected In a while our Bill of Rights will be rejected And all the blame will be deflected The forests will be unprotected The nation's poor will be neglected Creation myth is resurrected The new salute is genuflected The Gallup poll will be respected A gallows pole will be erected And all this will go undetected [Verse 4] And while you all slumbered, we sat and crunched numbers Of all the causalities we could afford There's no need to draft them, you could hear us laugh then The poor and Black all need the room and board Did I say that out loud? [Chorus] It was a gag, it was all for a laugh And now our very nation has been blown in half Fun and games, we're just pulling legs We knew this barrel of fun would be a powder keg