[verse, male voice]
I’ll settle for you — you’re the best I can get.
No woman I dream of would choose me, I bet.
I’m tired of searching, I’m tired of being alone.
So I’ll settle for someone willing to call my house her home.
[verse, male voice]
You’re not what I pictured when I pictured my life,
But you meet the bare requirements I have for a wife.
You’re breathing, not too fat, and say that you’ll stay—
And frankly, my standards get lower every day.
[Chorus, duet, male voice and female voice in unison]
So I’ll settle for you, if you’ll settle for me.
It isn’t true love, but it’s close as we’ll be.
We both could keep looking till we’re lonely and old—
Or lower our standards and have someone to hold.
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[verse, female voice]
I’ll settle for you — you’re not quite my type.
You talk through the movies, your jokes are all hype.
I dreamed of Prince Charming, but princes are few,
And lately I’m thinking that maybe you’ll do.
[verse, female voice]
You’re not very handsome, you’re stubborn and cheap,
You snore like a chainsaw whenever you sleep.
But dating is dreadful, and time marches on—
And somehow you’re still here when the better ones are gone.
[Final chorus, duet, male voice and female voice, in unison]
So I’ll settle for you, if you’ll settle for me.
It’s not what we dreamed of, but it's practicality.
We could spend our lives searching for somebody better,
Or admit what we’re worth and just be together.
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U.S. hypocrisy about the war in Ukraine is absolutely stunning, given that it invaded and bombed countries all over the world (e.g., Iraq) for flimsy reasons, often allying with Muslim extremists (e.g., Afghanistan in 80s, Serbia, Libya, and Syria). The U.S. occupies 1/3 of Syria (the parts with oil), with help from its proxy army, the Syrian Defense Forces. Russia's invasion was along its borders, in response to CIA and NATO meddling in a country with deep historical, linguistic, and cultural ties to Russia. U.S. meddling included "engineering" the 2014 coup, according to Chas. W. Freeman, former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Lifetime Director of the Atlantic Council. The U.S. also armed far-right militias that were attacking Russian speakers in the east. Before the 2022 invasion, the militias increased their bombings. Crimea had voted multiple times for closer ties to Russia. The U.S. exploited divisions in Ukraine between pro-Western and pro-Russian provinces and groups to provoke the war. RAND Corporation recommended arming Ukraine as the best way to "weaken and overextend" Russia and predicted it would result in a war. The New Yorker reported that the CIA and NSA engaged in a broad "effort, around the time of the invasion, to close off many 'sources related to Russia/Ukraine matters.'"
Jack Matlock (former U.S. Ambassador to the USSR under Ronald Reagan) said in a 2024 interview: "Why don’t we understand that trying to remove Ukraine from Russian influence and put military bases there would be, in their case, absolutely unacceptable and worthy of defense?" Matlock said the U.S. backed the 2014 coup, and "Obviously, to any Russian leader, not just Vladimir Putin, that would have been an absolutely impossible, hostile act, which they had to react to. And in particular, they were not going to lose their naval base in Crimea." Finally, Matlock said the Ukrainians are "dominated in their thinking by neo-Nazis — we tend to ignore that, or when Putin points it out, we say he’s lying. He’s not lying."
Other music:
Making a Killing (about the military contractors)
Hot, Humid, and Horny
America the Battleful (Oh Beautiful for Endless Wars!)
We are Spending Two Trillion Dollars on Weapons That Must Never Be Used
We Can't Compete with China, So Let's Provoke a War
Thomas Merton's Prayer for Peace
Rock Opera about U.S. Militarism, Part One
The Unholy Land has Genocide
Requiem for Victims of U.S. Wars
Bending Over for Dearest Uncle Sam
Endless War Blues
The Endless War Blues (different version)
Windy City Protests -- from Vietnam in '68 to Gaza in '24
No More Blood For Their Endless War: an antiwar folk song made with AI
Machinery of Death (death metal song)
No More Stupid Wars!
Lesser of Two Evils Blues
The Lesser of Two Evils Blues (longer, different version)
Eisenhower warns about the Military-Industrial Complex
Eisenhower Warns about U.S. Militarism
War is a Racket (Smedley Butler Song)
and Love Song by the U.S. Military Gospel Choir.
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