Stalin is the Word

The Minnesota Independent recently printed an article comparing Alaska Governor Sarah Pallin to Joseph Stalin. The obsessive, yearning tone of the piece immediately reminded me of the 1966 classic by the Association, Cherish.

Here are some alternative lyrics I imagine they're singing around the old editorial desk:

Stalin is the word I use to describe
All the feeling that I have hiding here for you inside
You don't know how many times I've wished that I had told you
You don't know how many times I've wished that I could scold you
You don't know how many times I've wished that I could
Fold you into someone who could
be Stalin as much as Bush is Stalin too

Oh I'm beginning to think that man has never found
The words that could make you obey me
That have the right amount of letters, just the right sound
That could make you hear, make you see
That you are drivin' me out of my mind

Oh I could say I hate you but then you'd realize
That I hate you just like a thousand other liberal guys
Who'd say they hate you, with all the rest of their cries
When all they wanted was to spit on your face, your hands
And spray bleach in your eyes

Fallen is the word that more than applies
To the hope in my heart each time I realize
That I am not gonna be the one to shatter your dreams
That I am not gonna be the one to shatter your schemes
That I am not gonna be the one to shatter what
Seems to be the life that you will lead as
Stalin, as much as I see yours

Stalin is the word I use to describe
All the feeling that I have hiding here for you inside
You don't know how many times I've wished that I had told you
You don't know how many times I've wished that I could scold you
You don't know how many times I've wished that I could
fold you into someone who could
be Stalin as much as Bush is Stalin too

And I do, Cheney too
And I do, Rumsfeld too

Stalin is the word.