Oh Mrs. O
Will you tell us where the naughty children go?
Will you show
How the sky turned white and everyone froze?
Heaven knows how they got into the fireplace
But everybody’s saying grace
And trying to keep a happy face
And oh Mrs. O
Can you teach us how to keep from getting old?
Out we go and you watch us as we face the falling snow
What a show with our hairdryers aimed heavenwards
And fifty-foot extension cords
You really have a way with words
The truth can’t save you now
The sky is falling down
Watch the vultures count the hours
April trains may bring strange showers
And oh Mrs. O
Will you tell us about the time they made you go
All alone to the palace where they took your only clothes?
We all know
There’s no hell and no Hiroshima
Chernobyl was a cover-up
The world is really all in love
Oh Mrs. O
Will you leave us hanging now that we are grown
Up and old?
Will you kill me if I say I told you so?
We all know
There’s no Hitler and no Holocaust
No winter and no Santa Claus
And yes, Virginia, all because
The truth can’t save you now
The sky is falling down
Everything they ever told us
Shakes our faith and breaks their promise
But you can stop the truth from leaking
If you never stop believing
