Pavlov hits me with 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 choice of macro Or melancholy 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 shredding And the and the republic rats Are flashing toothy smiles
And Uncle Tom is posing for a photo op with the Oval Office And Uncle Sam is rigging cockfights in the Land And knife you stuck in my back is still there It a little when I sigh and moan And these days I'm thinkin' I just as soon use the time alone
'Cuz all the wrong people the power of suggestion And the of the press is meaningless If nobody a question, I mean, causation by definition Is such a complex of factors
That to try, to say why, is to oversimplify But that's a far cry, isn't it, From acting you're the only one there self-centered and unfair
Enter all suckers scrambling for the Mr. Eye Contact who took his flirt and flew the coop But whatever, no matter, no fishin' trips, no Mamma's officially out of commission
And did I in there somewhere Did I mention somewhere in there that I traded Babe Yes, I the only player that was bigger than the game And I can't even tell you why 'cuz you'd I'm insane And that's the
And the music industry is pimping girl power off their sharpshooter 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 and closer to home And these I'm thinkin' I could just as use the time alone
An' I must admit, today, my pessimist Seems to have got the of me We start out sugared up on Kool-aid and destiny And we memorize all the president's names little trained monkeys
And then we're spit into the So spiny-eyed TV junkies Incapable of unraveling the military mystery Preemptively pacified with history book
An' I've been around the now And I can see this America The control is steep here, man The myopia is deep
And behold, that try to expose the reality Who try to realize democracy Are shot with rubber bullets and off the streets the global power brokers are kept clean and discreet Behind a wall, behind a moat and that is all, that's all she
An' my heart beats an 'Cuz folks couldn't care, care, care, less, less, less As long as every day is Bowl Sunday And larger than life women in Are pouting at us every bus stop She loves me, she loves me not, she loves me, she me not
And "Big government not stand between a man and his money" 'Cuz "What's for business is good for the country" Our children take that lie like communion The same old the confederacy used on the union
Conjugate liberty into libertarian and it Associate it with deregulation, We won't even know we're slaves on a plantation say hallelujah, somebody say damnation
'Cuz the system follows the path of least resistance And the path of least Is makes the river crooked it serpentine
Capitalism is the devil's wet So just give me my Garland drugs and let me get back to work 'Cuz the Empire building is the tallest building in New York And I always got the feeling you liked to hear it fall off your tongue
But I remember my in your mouth And I don't think I was done it close to my ear On a way to a moan But Pavlov hits me with bad news every time I answer the phone So I play and I sing and I let it ring all day when I'm at home
A de facto of macro or microcosmic melancholy But, baby, any way you it I'm thinkin' I just as soon use The alone