Johnny Mackenzie

From The Lib’rals DEVOLVER ALBUM

JOHNNY MACKENZUE

Based on “Eleanor Rigby”
by John Lennon and Paul McCartney
New Lyrics by Kyle
God pity all the broken people
God pity all the mourning people
Johnnie MacKenzie signs up for war in a school
Where recruiters have been
Buying a dream
Goes off for training learning to kill
From madmen who love blood, death, and gore
What is it for?
All the broken people, where do they all come from?
All the mourning people, how do they all go on?
Mother MacKenzie watching a program sees
Photos no mother should see.
How can it be?
Watching him dying, bleeding from wounds
In his heart while the camera stares
Leaders don’t care
All the broken people, where do they all come from
All the mourning people, how do they all go on?
God pity all the broken people
God pity all the mourning people
Johnny MacKenzie was killed in Iraq and was
Hidden along with his flag
Meaningless rag
Mary MacKenzie, wiping the tears from her eyes
When she prays at the grave
Who has been saved?
All the broken people, where do they all come from
All the mourning people, how do they all go on?