The of life is here to see In all its fine But the way we live it to be Something very to me and I cry out
Pettiness lady's chatter It seems to the matter I grit my teeth, my senses There's nothing much makes me 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 afraid they'll fall or be left out
right for me are strange to you Shouldnt make a on what you do 'Cause whether or not you make it I thought you already knew that I'll you going on
And the War III And the series Will make the same Headlines in the
From all I've of politics Its a greasy big money stick Geared to run on tongues so To make you think this is all is you got, I'm afraid
How con the little middle man thinking he has got a hand To in the future of the promised land He owes himself to the of man, get ridiculous
Cheap gangster can someone To do his work a tommy 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 you down no matter how tough But the of hoopla stuff It you think you can't do enough for the Chinese symbols
And the other They feel the as we And regret I But one country to for my life
Preacher in his holy shroud Saying, "God if you do it now" You come when the chips are down Youll that they've 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 forced to at him He mean to say, guessing
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"
It's a ghost a one way mirror Listening at the door to hear outside 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But the rules now For the changing Are a late We'll be out of date by
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 came lying there But the fact not spoken at home Left her feeling like a chewed on bone and why, she
And one chick who dug about Very liberal minded and of' out How she was and understood No doubt with the up The lights turned out, condescending
And a couple for five or six years A license, they'd never been near But social 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 be perversity in any state law book
I'm the minstrel at one time Was allowed to sing and his rhymes To on the news of the times Saying, "What's in people's minds?", and he made for it
But today try singing on street curb Singing the news in words The people pass by and laughing is Or else hit you where it hurts or they'll keep their ears closed
One man said, "Boy, I dig your I you to come play at my club I'll put name in lights up above But just remember, I got a to run, so don't you be too strong
not the writers who sell us out Its the damn censors who turn All life learned adjectives and vowels And say my mouth is much too foul to speak to you
But try to hit a And if the hammer Then the words you use to describe that That's basic
I hitch and sang the songs That knew and sang along To amuse myself I some songs Speaking about what's right and wrong, and I'm a different
So a record company, you know Wanted to know if my would sell I said, "Yes, I like it very If you don't, sir, you can go to somebody else change
I kept on and bumming around Singing to my friends who dig that A few guys said, "Won't you to my town" I ask fair bread, they put me their Caddie's mortgaged
I made one deal it's you and me This guy said be lots of use to me But I found he's putting the screws to me I it back out on the street singing new folk songs
And if there's enough And the ain't too rough What I today I might someday play and make some for it
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