While I was stopped at a light, I saw some cars to my right And then what happened nearly did me in

House Speaker Boehner pulled his wheels next to Senator Reid’s And then they got into an awful tiff

So Boehner said “Let’s fight”

and Reid said “Yeah, you’re right”

“Let’s have a drag race to the fiscal cliff!”

The fiscal cliff is a danger zone

It’s where grown men go when budgets are blown

If our Senators cannot agree, they make

Massive cuts automatically

When the budget talks have come to a halt

People go there and they threaten default

What will happen if we hit the fiscal cliff?

It was a game of chicken I was really scared I didn’t want anyone to die

But Boehner revved it up, and said, “Keep taxes low” And Reid said, “No, we must keep spending high”

And then it finally happened, what I always feared And, yeah, it looked as bad as you would think

Our elected reps skidded out of control And drove their cars right over the brink

The fiscal cliff is a danger zone

It’s where grown men go when budgets are blown

When our Congressmen cannot agree,

Taxes go up automatically

When the budget talks have come to a halt

People go there and they threaten default

What will happen if we hit the fiscal cliff?

Well, officer, my memory of that day has never gone away

I often find myself thinking, “What if?”

And what I’ve realized is, if they’d only been wise enough to compromise, well...

They could have saved us from the fiscal cliff!