The cycle of is here to see In all its fine But the way we live it to be very weird to me and I cry out
Pettiness like chatter It seems to complicate the I my teeth, my senses chatter There's much makes me madder and I leap out
For big or little, or small It really doesn't at all The way we our feet, and hem and haw 'Cause everyone's they'll fall or else be left out
What's for me are strange to you make a damn on what you do 'Cause or not you make it through I thought you knew that I'll keep you going on
And the War III And the series Will make the size Headlines in the
From all I've of politics Its just a greasy big money Geared to run on so slick To make you this is all there is you got, I'm afraid
How they con the little man Into he has got a hand To in the future of the promised land He himself to the destiny of man, get ridiculous
Cheap gangster can hire To do his work with a gun While the president at anyone And says, "I, your country the killing done, go do it now, boy"
But the war is bad enough It can break you no matter how tough But the tragedy of stuff It makes you think you can't do enough for the Chinese
And the other They feel the as we And I have But one country to give for my
Preacher in his holy shroud Saying, "God if you do it now" You come back the chips are down Youll find that they've all gone underground to for you
And the twist to preach He that he can preach to me The right way to go and raise a And I'm forced to at him He mean to say, You're
As the population is higher The poverty poor, the pregnant Are waiting on the Pope to be For some new contraceptive attire saying, "It's now"
a ghost behind a one way mirror Listening tip-toed at the to hear Someone won't speak the year Then, they'll slip a note out how feel about pierced ear-lobes
But the rules now For the changing Are a little We'll be out of by tomorrow
Her played on virginity She said, "It was the place to be" The boys had were evilry When it came for matrimony she froze and died there
Her at fourteen, very well known She thought all kicks lying there prone But the fact not spoken at home Left her feeling like a on bone and why, she wondered
And one chick who dug about Very minded and of' spoke out How she was cool and No doubt the blankets up The lights turned out, condescending
And a couple for five or six years A marriage license, never been near But social pressure and of job fear Got them married and divorced in half a year, they cut it
It's all about And then it's around But what is for me Could be in any state law book
I'm told the minstrel at one Was allowed to sing and make his To on the news of the times Saying, "What's in minds?", and he made tips for it
But today try singing on some curb Singing the news in everyday The pass by and laughing is heard Or else they'll hit you where it hurts or they'll their ears closed
One man said, "Boy, I dig your I want you to play at my club I'll put your in lights up above But just remember, I got a club to run, so don't you be too
It's not the who sell us out Its the damn censors who about All your life learned adjectives and And say my mouth is much too foul to clearly to you
But try to hit a And if the fails Then the words you use to describe that basic language
I hitch and sang the songs That knew and sang along To myself I wrote some songs about what's right and wrong, and I'm a little different
So a record company, you know Wanted to know if my song would I said, "Yes, I like it well If you don't, sir, you can go to somebody else change
I kept on and bumming around Singing to my friends who dig sound A few said, "Won't you come to my town" I ask bread, they put me down their Caddie's mortgaged
I made one deal it's you and me guy said he'd be lots of use to me But when I he's putting the screws to me I made it out on the street singing new folk songs
And if time enough And the hill ain't too I wrote today I might play and make some tips for it
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