PAPER AIRPLANES
Copyright © Susan Werner
Description: Guitar

All of us used to make serious objects, serious objects
Tangible objects
All of us used to make serious objects
Now we let Thailand do that

And all of us used to have serious leaders, serious leaders
Respectable leaders
All of us used to have serious leaders
And now we let Canada do that

Now we just sit and make paper airplanes, paper airplanes, paper airplanes
Now we just sit and make paper airplanes
And hope that the world don't catch on

All of us used to have serious families, serious families
Extended families
All of us used to have serious families
And now we let Latinos do that

And all of us used to have serious diseases, serious diseases
Terrible diseases
All of us used to have serious diseases
And now we let Africa do that

Now we just sit and make paper airplanes, paper airplanes, paper airplanes
Now we just sit and make paper airplanes
And we hope that the world don't catch on

And all of us used to have serious freedom, serious freedom
Hard-fought and won freedom
All of us used to have serious freedom
And now we let Goodyear do that

And all of us used to have serious weapons, serious weapons
Nuclear weapons
And all of us used to have nuclear weapons
And now we let China do that

Now we'd rather sit and make paper airplanes, paper airplanes, paper airplanes
Now we just sit and make paper airplanes
And hope that the world don't catch on

And all of us we used to make serious money, serious money
I'm talkin' money
All of us used to make serious money
Now we make seven times that

And all of our money's in paper airplanes, paper airplanes, paper airplanes
All of our money's in paper airplanes
And we do hope the world catches on

[December 1999]

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