Day nine finds me studying raw footage
As if in deciphering it some new message
Some code might be cracked and some
Formula would produce a suitable
Answer X + Y = this but nothing adds
Up to no survivors in the wreckage
And no bodies only parts and nothing
Equals the stunned faces of those working
At ground zero it is horrendous
I am not alone in a search for the formula
To explain this away I watch as the govt
Puts on its show of force our president
His game face a grim mask of determination
Of we’re gonna find the bastards who did
This (where I wonder in the rubble mixed in
With the five thousand others who lost
Their lives in a flash) and we’re gonna
Make them pay but before we can do
That we need all of you (the U in USA)
To get back out there and start to put
America back on her feet again buy
Baby buy with that the home shopping
Network went back on the air so the You
Of YouSA could start to heal itself back
To the regularly scheduled life folks
Nothing more to see right now
We’ll keep you posted please let us do
Our jobs we’ve got a lot to figure out
Like how’d this happen and who all we can
Blame this on and it pretty much looks
Like this cat in Afghanistan this Ossama
Bin Laden is the guy we’re gonna pin
This on and if they don’t give him over
To us well we’ll just unleash the hounds
Of war on him and get medieval on his ass
We can do that now because we’re on
Guard now and all the smart nations are
Behind us saying go getum tiger and the
Congress and the American people who
Have been polled repeatedly and are
Fully in front of the Prez ready to drop
Their socks and grab their weapons to
Take this battle home (no matter if home
Is some bombed out war torn country in
The middle east it don’t matter boss man
Whatever it takes we’re with you) we are
The You in USA

“The one thing I’m sure of is that Raindog knows that while it appears all roads lead to a physical destination, they really head toward a darker interior. And, the real American highway is paved with the black asphalt quarried from the soul. If we haven’t learned that, then we are destined to roar down these night highways forever, drag-racing our demons toward oblivion.”

Todd Moore (from the introduction)