brutality

• whatever happened to the fear of god?
  whatever happened to church on sunday?
  whatever happened to the velvet glove?
  and the iron fist
  whatever happened to the social season?
  whatever happened to the debutants?
  whatever happened to the south of france?
  
  good old fashioned brutality
  everything in it's place
  good old fashioned barbarity
  leave the room in disgrace
  
  whatever happened to drinking and driving?
  and doing the decent thing
  hiding out on the continent
  getting over a nervous breakdown
  close the ranks and remove all traces
  say anything to stay out of jail
  what it really boils down to
  it always wins, it never fails
  
  driving back from a late night party
  took a corner much too fast
  head-on collision with the 21st century
  whatever happened to brutality?