Barry Jive and The Uptown Five

63 Plays

A Thousand Men - Joe Pug

“See Thomas Jefferson on the eve of Bunker Hill.
Writing words to die for.
Writing sentences to kill.

They’ve come to paint his portrait
So he grabs a chair and sits
As the surgeon orders cotton
For a thousand tourniquets.

For God and country…
For us and them.
Every good idea kills at least a thousand men…
At least a thousand men.”