Mickey Leland Lyrics
Station wagons order burgers through the drive-in intercom
From black kids dressed in clown suits, happy just to have a job
While the ghost-like TV flickers scenes from far away
African children dying, it was more than Mickey could take
Bird-like shadow running fast over the desert like a fox
Saw Mickey's plane go down and my heart fell like a rock
With wings stretched out like a cross out to resurrect the dawn
Falls like a single drop of rain in the barren hills below
His name was Mickey Leland
His name was not Mickey Mouse
And he never did deceive you like the white man in the Whitehouse
Some idiots get elected like Icarus in flight
Some mount with wings of angels
Sometimes they fall from the sky, whoa
The wind was up that day and song was in the breeze
I got it tangled in my mind, like a kite in a tree
And I pulled its broken body down, examined it like a dead bird
So beautiful, so perfect, yet so useless and absurd
His name was Mickey Leland
His name was not Mickey Mouse
And he never did deceive you like the white man in the Whitehouse
Some idiots get elected like Icarus in flight
Some mount with wings of angels
The they fall like diamonds from the sky
So let those gulf winds blow, let those white caps roll
All the way to Houston, all the way to the Alamo
And flood the halls of Congress
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Come wash these urban slums
My body lies over the ocean
Carry me home
His name was Mickey Leland
His name was not Mickey Mouse
And he never did deceive you like the old man in the Whitehouse
Some idiots get elected like Icarus in flight
Some mount with wings of angels
Sometimes they fall from the sky
Ooh, why?
Oh, why?
Oh, why?
Oh, why?
