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It was a sunny day down in Washington I took my Chevy out for a spin
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While I was stopped at a light, I saw some cars to my right And then what happened nearly did me in
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House Speaker Boehner pulled his wheels next to Senator Reid’s And then they got into an awful tiff
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So Boehner said “Let’s fight”
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and Reid said “Yeah, you’re right”
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“Let’s have a drag race to the fiscal cliff!”
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The fiscal cliff is a danger zone
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It’s where grown men go when budgets are blown
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If our Senators cannot agree, they make
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Massive cuts automatically
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When the budget talks have come to a halt
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People go there and they threaten default
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What will happen if we hit the fiscal cliff?
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It was a game of chicken I was really scared I didn’t want anyone to die
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But Boehner revved it up, and said, “Keep taxes low” And Reid said, “No, we must keep spending high”
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And then it finally happened, what I always feared And, yeah, it looked as bad as you would think
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Our elected reps skidded out of control And drove their cars right over the brink
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The fiscal cliff is a danger zone
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It’s where grown men go when budgets are blown
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When our Congressmen cannot agree,
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Taxes go up automatically
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When the budget talks have come to a halt
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People go there and they threaten default
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What will happen if we hit the fiscal cliff?
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Well, officer, my memory of that day has never gone away
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I often find myself thinking, “What if?”
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And what I’ve realized is, if they’d only been wise enough to compromise, well...
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They could have saved us from the fiscal cliff!