Patterson Hood - Pride of the Yankees lyrics

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 f**ed 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