Doncha Run My Life (Ode to Ollie North)

Performed by Dreams Die Hard
Recorded 1987
Written by Iverson

OLLIE: "I shredded. I was never told not to shred. I shredded because I thought it was the right thing to do. When I didn't have a shredder I put it in a burn bag and it would burn."

I don't wanna hear your justification
For your simple minded machination
You told a lie that's all I know
You're a charming guy it was all for show
Think you know better than me how to run my life

Took your time practiced what to say
Come on TV a dog has his day
You mesmerized the middle class
With their ten second memory you didn't last
Think you know better than me how to run my life

General Secord...covert action...control...
The ultimate covert operation

You wore your medals and your uniform
You want people like me to conform
You look upon my kind with scorn
Give more rights to the unborn
Think you know better than me how to run my life

Drug running...cocacaine trafficking...
Weapons being sold...to the CIA

When will everyone stop and think
Just how close we are to the brink
When he took the law into his hands
It's like fifty years ago in a German land
Think you know better than me how to run my life

RONNIE: "A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not."

OLLIE: "I did do it. I am not, as I said in my statement, at all ashamed of any of the things that I did. I was given a mission and I tried to carry it out."

Doncha run mhy life, doncha run my life

[lyrics transcribed from the record cover]