The of life is here to see In all its simplicity But the way we it seems to be Something very to me and I cry out
Pettiness like chatter It to complicate the matter I grit my teeth, my chatter There's nothing much makes me madder and I out
For big or little, great or It really matter at all The way we our feet, and hem and haw 'Cause everyone's afraid they'll fall or be left out
What's for me are strange to you Shouldnt make a damn on you do 'Cause whether or not you it through I thought you already knew that I'll you going on
And the War III And the series Will make the size in the news
From all I've seen of Its just a big money stick Geared to run on so slick To make you this is all there is you got, I'm afraid
How they con the middle man thinking he has got a hand To play in the future of the land He owes himself to the of man, get ridiculous
Cheap can hire someone To do his work with a gun While the president points at And says, "I, your country wants the done, go do it now, boy"
But the war is bad enough It can you down no matter how tough But the tragedy of stuff It makes you think you can't do enough for the Chinese
And the countries They the same as we And regret I But one to give for my life
stands in his holy shroud Saying, "God if you do it now" You back when the chips are down Youll find that all gone underground to pray for you
And the homosexual to preach He that he can preach to me The right way to go and a family And I'm to look 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 saying, "It's cool now"
It's a ghost behind a one way tip-toed at the door to hear Someone outside speak the year Then, they'll slip a out how they feel about pierced ear-lobes
But the made now For the changing Are a little We'll be out of date by
Her mother played on She said, "It was the holy to be" The things had were evilry When it came for matrimony she froze and died there
Her sister at fourteen, very known She thought all kicks came there prone But the fact not spoken at home Left her like a chewed on bone and why, she wondered
And one who dug moving about liberal minded and of' spoke out How she was and understood No with the blankets up The lights turned out, condescending
And a couple together for five or six A marriage license, they'd never been But pressure and loss of job fear Got them married and divorced in half a year, they cut it
It's all talked And it's lived around But what is for me Could be in any state law book
I'm the minstrel at one time Was allowed to and make his rhymes To comment on the of the times Saying, "What's in minds?", and he made tips for it
But today try on some street curb Singing the news in everyday The people pass by and laughing is Or they'll hit you where it hurts or they'll keep their ears closed
One man said, "Boy, I dig stuff I want you to play at my club put your name in lights up above But just remember, I got a to run, so don't you be too strong
It's not the writers who us out Its the censors who turn about All your learned adjectives and vowels And say my mouth is much too to clearly speak to you
But try to hit a And if the hammer Then the words you use to describe bruise That's basic
I hike and sang the songs That knew and sang along To amuse I wrote some songs Speaking about what's and wrong, and I'm a little different
So a company, you know well Wanted to if my song would sell I said, "Yes, I it very well If you don't, sir, you can go to somebody else change
I kept hope on and bumming Singing to my who dig that sound A few said, "Won't you come to my town" I ask fair bread, they put me down Caddie's mortgaged
I made one deal like you and me This guy he'd be lots of use to me But when I found he's putting the to me I made it back out on the street singing new folk
And if there's time And the ain't too rough What I wrote I might someday play and make some for it
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