 After the Garden
After the Garden
Won't need no shadow man 
Runnin' the government 
Won't need no stinkin' WAR 
Won't need no haircut 
Won't need no shoe shine 
After the garden is gone 
After the garden is gone 
After the garden is gone 
What will people do? 
After the garden is gone 
What will people say? 
After the garden 
Won't need no strong man 
Walkin' through the night 
To live a weak man's day 
Won't need no sunshine 
Won't need no purple haze 
After the garden is gone 
After the garden is gone 
After the garden is gone 
Where will people go? 
After the garden is gone 
What will people know? 
After the garden 
After the garden is gone 
After the garden is gone 
(We live in the garden of Eden, yeah 
Don't know why we wanna tear the whole thing to the ground 
We live in the garden of Eden, yeah 
Don't know why we wanna tear the whole thing down 
And we've got to get ourselves 
Back to the garden)
Let's impeach the president
Let's impeach the president for lying
And leading our country into war
Abusing all the power that we gave him
And shipping all our money out the door
He's the man who hired all the criminals
The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors
And bend the facts to fit with their new stories
Of why we have to send our men to war
Let's impeach the president for spying
On citizens inside their own homes
Breaking every law in the country
By tapping our computers and telephones
What if Al Qaeda blew up the levees
Would New Orleans have been safer that way
Sheltered by our government's protection
Or was someone just not home that day?
Let's impeach the president
For hijacking our religion and using it to get elected
Dividing our country into colors
And still leaving black people neglected
Thank god he's racking down on steroids
Since he sold his old baseball team
There's lot of people looking at big trouble
But of course the president is clean
Thank God 
We read in Wikipedia about this album and songs
“Living with War” (2006) is an album full of protest songs. The album's lyrics, titles, and conceptual style are highly critical of the policies of the George W. Bush administration. 
“After the Garden”, the opening track, protests the Bush administration's policy regarding global warming. The lyrics express displeasure with the administration's perceived inaction in dealing with the issue. Young presents the consequences of not taking action to combat global warming through the lyrics.
"Let's Impeach the President" starts off with a trumpet playing the first six notes of Taps, then having a chorus sing about various reasons to impeach George W. Bush. The song is sung to the tune of Steve Goodman's song "The City of New Orleans," perhaps a reference to 2005's Hurricane Katrina, another area of critical views.  The Restless Consumer
The Restless Consumer
The people have heard the news 
The people have spoken 
You may not like what they said 
But they weren't jokin' 
Way out on the desert sands 
Lies a desperate lover 
They call her the "Queen of Oil" 
So much to discover 
Don't need no ad machine 
Telling me what I need 
Don't need no Madison Avenue War 
Don't need no more boxes I can see 
Covered in flags but I can't see them on TV 
Don't need no more lies 
Don't need no more lies 
The restless consumer flies 
Around the world each day 
With such an appetite for taste and grace 
People from around the world 
Need someone to listen 
We're starving and dying from our disease 
We need your medicine 
How do you pay for war 
And leave us dyin' ? 
When you could do so much more 
You're not even tryin' 
Don't need no TV ad 
Tellin' me how sick I am 
Don't want to know how many people are like me 
Don't need no dizziness 
Don't need no nausea 
Don't need no side effects like diarrhea or sexual death 
Don't need no more lies 
Don't need no more lies 
The restless consumer lies 
Asleep in her hotel 
With such an appetite 
For anything that sells 
A hundred voices from a hundred lands 
Need someone to listen 
People are dying here and there 
They don't see the world the way you do 
There's no mission accomplished here 
Just death to thousands 
A hundred voices from a hundred lands 
Cry out in unison 
Don't need no terror squad 
Don't want no damned Jihad 
Blowin' themselves away in my hood 
But we don't talk to them 
So we don't learn from them 
Hate don't negotiate with Good 
Don't need no more lies 
Don't need no more lies 
Don't need no more lies 
Don't need no more lies 
The restless comsumer flies 
Around the world each day 
With such an appetite for efficiency 
And pace... 
Don't need no more lies.
Another song from this album that critisizes the whole USA policy of oil dependence and eternal wars and conflicts to retain it in order to support a highly consuming society with strong class division and unequal access to meet basic human needs.
You can hear all these songs in youtube:
After the garden
Let's Impeach The President
Restless Consumer
07 October, 2008
Album: "Living with war" by Neil Young (2006)
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