Pavlov hits me more bad news Every I answer the phone So I play and I sing and I let it ring All day I'm at home
A de facto of macro Or microcosmic But, baby, any way you it I'm thinkin' I could just as soon use the alone
Yes, the have gone global And the CEO's are files And the and the republic rats Are flashing their toothy
And Uncle Tom is posing for a op with the Oval Office clan And Uncle Sam is rigging cockfights in the Land And knife you stuck in my back is still there It pinches a little I sigh and moan And these days I'm thinkin' I could just as use the time alone
'Cuz all the wrong people have the of suggestion And the of the press is meaningless If asks a question, I mean, causation by definition Is such a complex of factors
to even try, to say why, is to oversimplify But a far cry, isn't it, dear? From like you're the only one there self-centered and unfair
Enter all suckers scrambling for the Exit Mr. Eye Contact who his flirt and flew the coop But whatever, no matter, no fishin' trips, no 'Cuz Mamma's out of commission
And did I mention in somewhere Did I mention somewhere in there I traded Babe Ruth? Yes, I traded the only player that was bigger than the And I can't even tell you why 'cuz you'd think I'm And the truth
And the music industry mafia is pimping power Sniping off their singles from their Styrofoam towers And hip-hop is tied up in the back room with a logo stuffed in it's 'Cuz the master's will never dismantle the master's house
But I'm getting away from myself As I get closer and to home And these days I'm I could just as soon use the alone
An' I must admit, today, my inner Seems to have got the of me We start out sugared up on and manifest destiny And we memorize all the president's names little trained monkeys
And then we're into the world So many spiny-eyed TV Incapable of unraveling the military mystery Preemptively pacified with book history
An' I've been around the now And I can see this about The mind control is here, man The myopia is here
And behold, those that try to expose the Who try to realize democracy Are with rubber bullets and gassed off the streets While the global brokers are kept clean and discreet Behind a wall, behind a moat and is all, that's all she wrote
An' my heart an [unverified] 'Cuz folks just couldn't care, care, care, less, less, As long as day is Super Bowl Sunday And than life women in lingerie Are pouting at us every bus stop She me, she loves me not, she loves me, she loves me not
And "Big should not stand between a man and his money" "What's good for business is good for the country" Our children still take that lie like The same old line the confederacy used on the
Conjugate liberty into and medicate it Associate it with deregulation, We won't even we're slaves on a corporate plantation Somebody say hallelujah, say damnation
the profit system follows the path of least resistance And the path of least Is makes the river crooked Makes it
is the devil's wet dream So just give me my Judy Garland and let me get back to work 'Cuz the Empire State building is the tallest building in New And I always got the feeling you just liked to hear it off your tongue
But I remember my name in mouth And I don't think I was done hearing it to my ear On a whispers way to a But Pavlov hits me with bad news every time I answer the phone So I play and I sing and I just let it ring all day when I'm at
A de facto choice of macro or microcosmic But, baby, any way you it I'm thinkin' I just as soon use The alone