High Crimes and Misdemeanors (Hip Hop-Cracy)
High Crimes and Misdemeanors (Hip Hop-Cracy)
Written by Dennis DeYoung
Lead Vocals by Dennis DeYoung
They want you to believe
The unbelievable
They say you should accept
The unacceptable
Forget your common sense
It isn't sensible
Good times for fools and dreamers
Watch 'em all deny
The undeniable
See how they refute
The unrefutable
They're ready to defend
The indefensible
High times for lawyer schemers
They say we must forgive
The forgivable
They want us to respect
The unrespectable
The pious and the hip
So hypocritical
High crimes and misdemeanors
Hip hop hip hop-cracy hip hop
Hip hop hip hop-cracy hip hop
Hip hop hip hop-cracy hip hop
See how they explain
The inexplicable
Watch 'em debate
The undebatable
Apparently a lie
Is never liable
Prime time for talk show screamers
They say we constitute
The Constitutional
With justice here for all
So justifiable
I'm tryin' not to laugh
But man it's laughable
High crimes and misdemeanors
Hip hop hip hop-cracy hip hop
Hip hop hip hop-cracy hip hop
Hip hop hip hop-cracy hip hop
Hip hop hip hop-cracy hip hop
Hip hop hip hop-cracy hip hop
And so
Today we find
They've changed their minds
They've switched their points of view
Oh what tangled webs they weave
When their beliefs ain't really
What they believe
They're trying to divide
The indivisible
Because they think we're fools
So foolable
I'm tryin' not to laugh
But man it's laughable
Boom times for Wall Street dreamers
They want you to believe
The unbelievable
They say we should accept
The unacceptable
The pious and the hip
So hypocritical
High crimes and misdemeanors
High crimes and misdemeanors
High crimes and misdemeanors
Hip hop hip hop-cracy hip hop
Hip hop hip hop-cracy hip hop
Hip hop hip hop-cracy hip hop
Hip
Interpretation
In the midst of the impeachment proceedings of President Clinton, the argument over whether to remove the impeached president from office did not focus on whether he had committed a crime--it surrounded whether the crime fit the definition of "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" (the term used in the U.S. Constitution to describe the conditions under which a president may be removed from office). In the end, it was determined that infidelity and perjury did not meet the standard. However, the case is an example of a gap between the American people and the politicians that represent them in government. President Clintion wasn't the only politician to break the trust of his constituents, but he was the most prominent of many. According to many political commentators, he was also the most skilled at saying things in such a way that he would be grossly misleading without technically lying. This song explores the hypocricy ("Hip Hop-Cracy") of the way that politicians and political spin-doctors ("talk show screamers") can make the truth out to be a lie and make a lie out to be the truth. Since when was hypocracy hip?
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