I beg your pardon.
But when you landed in the Rose Garden.
The duty was awesome.
We resolutely rooted you'd blossom.
Once you win, you've got to grow.
To know you can't blow off every foe.
When you just send bombardin'.
You end up stranded
in the Rose Garden.
 
Well, we used to be slick
with the carrot and stick.
Whether cheered or merely feared:
we domineered the planet.
Oh, we totally ran it.
When a state was in vogue
that went skatin' to rogue?
It was great, oh, 'cause we had NATO
to be referred to.
Who you now give the bird to.
 
Good golly, the folly of your idea.
We shouldn't call up North Korea.
At this stage, it isn't sage to disengage.
One more canard in
How you grandstanded in the Rose Garden.
Old friends getting distant.
And soon quite possibly nonexistent.
 
What you're discardin'.
When you are stranded in the Rose Garden.
 
To Hezbollah's success
and Tehran's game of chess.
You just muster a bluster.
but, buster, that isn't the way to lead.
And it's error when it's terror you breed.
You're in so far over your head.
the alert should be red.
With the beast of the Middle East.
in the wind you're flappin'.
And it didn't have to happen.
 
Conceit so complete and so close-minded.
You can't compete when you are blinded
To the real realities of centuries.
The show you've starred in.
What you've commanded from the Rose Garden.
Alliances shaking.
And new defiances in the making.
Positions harden.
When you're high-handed in the Rose Garden.
Across every ocean.
Dear God, what forces have you set in motion?

I beg your pardon.
But we are stranded
in your Rose Garden.
 

Gary Stockdale - lead vocal
Janis Liebhart - background vocals
Greg Hilfman - music director 

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