Mike Scott is on something of a late-career renaissance at the moment. Following on from his superb tribute to Denis Hopper last year, The Waterboys have just dropped this instant sing-along classic... although this one's about someone else, and it's a lot less complimentary.
Who assembled this enterprise
To deny the evidence of our eyes?
Who presided over this offense
Against decency and common sense ?
Whose dedication, whose labour
Turned neighbour against neighbour?
Who indeed should we blame?
I don't even have to say his name*
Who put the dogwhistle back in style?
Who makes every white supremacist smile?
Who put violence in peoples' heads?
The spider at the heart of the web
Who granted Ice immunity
To murder with impunity?
Who indeed should we blame?
I don't even have to say his name*
Two trains are rolling across America tonight
I can hear their wheels, I can see their lights
Well I don't know, but maybe you hear them too
One leads to Auschwitz, one leads to the new
Who took democracy and its sacred vote
And wrapped a noose around its throat?
Which insurrectionist and bogus King
Buried the White House under bling?
Who threatens like other people breathe?
Insults women every day on TV?
Who turned this country we hold dear
Into a land of fear?
Who indeed should we blame?
I don't even have to
I don't even have to say
I don't even have to say his name*
(*That line has a couple of extra words added when Mike sings it.)
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