He was a hard headed man he was brutally partisan - and she was terminally smug
She felt him up and they stole a king's ransom in the heart of the cold windy city
He had a nasty reputation as a cruel dude - they said he was ruthless, they said he was crude
They had one thing in common - didn't like the USA
She'd say faster faster everybody's got to pay it started

Life in the past lane - surely make you lose your mind
Life in the past lane - are you with me so far

Eager for action and hot for the game - the fatal attraction, the weird sounding name
They knew all the left people, they appointed their shills
They threw outrageous parties, taxpayers paid all the bills
There were lines on the mirror, lines on her face
The media didn't notice, they made it all about race
On every evening, trashing the right
He was too gay to fake it, she was too proud to care about it

Life in the past lane - surely make you lose your mind
Life in the past lane - uh huh
Life in the past lane - socialism communism - life in the past lane

Bowing and burning, blinded by lust
They didn't see the stop sign on the big Tea Party bus
She said listen Barry even if your numbers crash
Put the pedal to the metal till the country's out of cash
He said call the doctor I need a brand new spin
The doctor say he's spinning but there's no way you can win
They went rushing down that freeway saw the cliff and hit the ice
They didn't care America had paid the price - that ended

Life in the past lane - surely make you lose your mind
Life in the past lane - uh huh
Life in the past lane - bad for good all the time - life in the past lane.