The Fools on the Hill

On New Year's Eve our local PBS station broadcast the original film of the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour.  Wild and wacky, it features a segment where Paul McCartney sings "The Fool on the Hill."  How amusing to hear this song on the very eve that our Republican-led House of Representatives attempted to steer us over the cliff, veering dangerously towards the extreme views of its party.

Day after day,
"At work" on the Hill,
The men of the Tea Party keep thwarting
bill after bill
And most of us just don't get them,
We can see that they're really fools,
'Cause they never give an answer

'Cept to keep the rich untaxed,
For they don't understand,
And the eyes in their head,
See their world giving way.

Full of themselves,
Heads in a cloud,
These men of unreasoned voices talking perfectly loud
And very few want to hear them,
Or the sound they appear to make,
'Cause they never give an answer

'Cept to keep the rich untaxed,
For they don't understand,
And the eyes in their head,
See their world giving way.

And even John Boehner irks them,
They won't do what he wants them to,
'Cause they have their own agenda,

All these fools on the Hill,
See the sun going down,
And the eyes in their head,
See their world giving way.