[Verse 1]
A Trump supporter's company cut a check
One million dollars to repair the wreck
The UFC brought the crowd, the turf got torn
Now somebody's writing zeros on a sworn
Pledge to restore the grass where the fighters stood
Beneath the portico in the neighborhood
Of power and spectacle, chalk and sod
A million-dollar apology, slightly odd
[Chorus]
June twenty-third, read the wire slow
Accordion humming through the things we know
Arrests and primaries, culture and lawn
The news keeps moving from dusk until dawn
Two more suspects taken in the plot
To attack the UFC show, believe it or not
Maryland Democrats picking who comes next
After Steny Hoyer — history's annexed
[Verse 2]
Two more men arrested, federal charges filed
Alleged attack on the White House, something wild
Authorities pulled them before the plan could breathe
A coordinated plot they say was underneath
The surface of the spectacle, the cage fight glow
Now prosecutors cataloguing what they know
Four walls of a courtroom, not the octagon
The accusations printed, carried on
[Verse 3]
Maryland is choosing in the primary light
Hoyer's seat is open after all those nights
Of votes and floor debates and legislation passed
Nothing lasts forever, even legacies so vast
The candidates are knocking, making promises and rounds
In district halls and diners, working through the sounds
Of a party choosing futures, parsing left from right
Democracy is grinding through another ordinary night
[Bridge]
And somewhere in Hyannis Port the archive hums
The JFK Library turning yellowed drums
Of photographs and policy, arts and grace
Kennedy's White House — a different kind of stage
The Department of Energy counting bulbs and wire
The history of electricity, no metaphor required
Every circuit mapped from Edison to now
The current through the mansion — someone tell us how
[Chorus]
June twenty-third, read the wire slow
Accordion humming through the things we know
Arrests and primaries, culture and lawn
The news keeps moving from dusk until dawn
Two more suspects taken in the plot
To attack the UFC show, believe it or not
Maryland Democrats picking who comes next
After Steny Hoyer — history's annexed
[Outro]
The Knicks and the cage fight sharing column space
The New Yorker drawing borders, keeping pace
With everything that tilts and spins and lands
June twenty-third — the news inside our hands
[Chorus]
June twenty-third, read the wire slow
Accordion humming through the things we know
Arrests and primaries, culture and lawn
The news keeps moving from dusk until dawn
Two more suspects taken in the plot
To attack the UFC show, believe it or not
Maryland Democrats picking who comes next
After Steny Hoyer — history's annexed