Don't blame the Canadians

Here I am, on this self-important island, suffering the slings and arrows of the British/European idiot HATERS. The kind of haters who believe Micheal Moore or Louis Theorox practice good journalism and their documentaries paint an accurate picture of our vast, diverse and complicated country. (Oh, I'm so naive! I'm just finding the insane presenting it like it's the norm. It's on tape...means its fact. I'm crusading for the underdog,what?)

Anyway, no one told me about LCD Soundsystem's North American Scum when it came out last spring?! Apparently it was a minor hit here in the UK. Did they get the joke, who knows?

It would have helped me when things were particularly bad here in the spring and I was pining for some American support. At least I can love it with all my might now. And if I can't make it back for election night (oh, the sadness of missing out!), maybe I can blast this anthem of perfectly sarcastic patriotism. Take that, you haughty Europeans!

North American Scum lyrics

oh oh oh oh i don't know, i don't know, oh, where to begin we are north americans and for those of you who still think we're from england we're not, no. we build our planes and our trains till we think we might die, far from North America, where the buildings are old and you might have lots of mimes. aha, oh, oh. i hate the feelin' when you're looking at me that way cause we're north americans but if we act all shy, it’ll make it ok makes it go away. oh I don't know, I don't know, oh, where to begin when we're north american but in the end we make the same mistakes all over again come on north americans we are north american scum we’re from north america and all the kids all the kids that want to make the scene here in north america when our young kids get to read it in your magazines we don't have those so where's the love where's the love where's the love where's the love where's the love tonight? but there's no love man there's no love and the kids are uptight so throw a party till the cops come in and bust it up let's go north americans oh you were planning it i didn't mean to interrupt sorry i did it once and my parents got pretty upset freaked out in north america but then i said the more i do it the better it gets let's rock north america [LCD Soundsystem, North American Scum lyrics and video on http://crocmusic.com/] we are north american scum we're from north america we are north american scum we are north american new york's the greatest if you get someone to pay the rent wahoo north america and it's the furthest you can live from the government un huh huh some proud american christians might disagree here in north america but new york's the only place we're keepin them off the street boo boo now we can't have parties like in spain where they go all night shut down in north america or like berlin where they go another night, alright, un huh un huh you see i love this place that i have grown to know alright, north america. and yeah, I know you wouldn’t touch us with a ten-foot pole ‘cause we’re north americans. we are north american scum we are north americans we are north american scum we love north america take me back to the states man north american scum where we can be ???? north american where the dj gigs are as fun here in north american scum don't blame the canadians let go north america