Pavlov hits me with bad news Every time I answer the So I play and I sing and I just let it All day I'm at home
A de choice of macro Or microcosmic But, baby, any way you it I'm thinkin' I could as soon use the time alone
Yes, the have gone global And the CEO's are shredding And the [unverified] and the rats Are flashing their smiles
And Uncle Tom is posing for a photo op the Oval Office clan And Uncle Sam is cockfights in the Promised Land And that knife you stuck in my back is there It pinches a little when I and moan And these days I'm I could just as soon use the time alone
'Cuz all the wrong people have the of suggestion And the freedom of the press is If nobody asks a question, I mean, by definition Is a complex compilation of factors
That to even try, to say why, is to But that's a far cry, isn't it, From acting you're the only one there Unrepentantly and unfair
Enter all suckers for the scoop Exit Mr. Eye Contact who took his and flew the coop But whatever, no matter, no trips, no fishin' 'Cuz Mamma's officially out of
And did I in there 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 I'm insane And that's the
And the music mafia is pimping girl power Sniping off their singles from their Styrofoam towers And hip-hop is tied up in the room with a logo stuffed in it's mouth 'Cuz the master's tools will never the master's house
But then I'm away from myself As I get closer and to home And days I'm thinkin' I could just as soon use the time
An' I must admit, today, my inner to have got the best of me We start out sugared up on and manifest destiny And we memorize all the president's names like little trained
And we're spit into the world So many spiny-eyed TV Incapable of the military industrial mystery Preemptively pacified with book history
An' been around the world now And I can see about America The control is steep here, man The myopia is here
And behold, those try to expose the reality Who really try to democracy Are shot with rubber and gassed off the streets While the global power brokers are kept clean and Behind a wall, behind a moat and that is all, all she wrote
An' my heart an [unverified] folks just couldn't care, care, care, less, less, less As long as every day is Super Bowl And larger life women in lingerie Are pouting at us from bus stop She me, she loves me not, she loves me, she loves me not
And "Big government 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
liberty into libertarian and medicate it Associate it with deregulation, We won't even we're slaves on a corporate plantation Somebody say hallelujah, somebody say
'Cuz the system follows the path of least resistance And the path of resistance Is what makes the river it serpentine
Capitalism is the devil's wet So just give me my Judy Garland drugs and let me get to work the Empire State building is the tallest building in New York 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 I was done hearing it close to my ear On a way to a moan But Pavlov hits me more 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 choice of macro or microcosmic melancholy But, baby, any way you it I'm I could just as soon use The alone