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[03:04.59]Pavlov hits me with more bad news
[03:07.13]Every time I answer the phone
[03:08.89]So I, I play and I sing and I just let it ring
[03:12.35]All day when I'm at home
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[03:22.14]A defacto choice of macro or microcosmic melancholy
[03:28.68]But baby, anyway you slice it
[03:30.98]I'm thinkin' I could just as soon use the time alone
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[03:40.65]Yes, the goons have gone global
[03:43.06]And the CEO's are shredding files
[03:45.66]And the democrins and the republicrats
[03:47.75]Are flashing their toothy smiles
[03:50.06]And uncle Tom is posing for a photo op with the oval office clan
[03:54.33]And uncle Sam is rigging cockfights in the promised land
[03:58.69]And that knife you stuck in my back is still there
[04:02.94]It pinches a little when I sigh and moan
[04:07.25]And these days I'm thinkin I could just as soon use the time alone
[04:15.27]🎵
[04:25.04]'Cause all the wrong people have the power of suggestion
[04:30.78]And the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks a question
[04:35.94]I mean, causation by definition
[04:38.62]Is such a complex compilation of factors
[04:42.34]That to even try to say why is to oversimplifly
[04:48.81]But that's a far cry, isn't it dear?
[04:51.99]From acting like you're the only one there
[04:55.08]Unrepentantly self-centered and unfair
[04:58.83]Enter all suckers scrambling for the scoop
[05:02.53]Exit Mr. Eye contact who took his flirt and flew the coop
[05:07.42]But whatever, no matter
[05:09.51]No fishin' trips, no fishin'
[05:12.49]'Cause mamma's officially out of commission
[05:16.02]And did I mention in there
[05:18.63]Did I mention somewhere in there
[05:22.67]That I traded Babe Ruth?
[05:25.75]Yes, I traded the only player that was bigger than the game
[05:29.83]And I can't even tell you why 'cause you'd think I'm insane
[05:35.12]And that's the truth
[05:37.34]🎵
[05:48.49]And the music industry mafia is pimping girl power
[05:52.40]Sniping off their sharpshooter singles from their styrofoam towers
[05:56.70]And hip hop is tied up in the back room
[05:59.73]With a logo stuffed in its mouth
[06:01.97]'Cause the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house
[06:05.96]But then I'm getting away from myself
[06:10.39]As I get closer and closer to home
[06:14.52]And the difference between you and me, baby
[06:17.29]Is I get fucked up when I'm alone
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[06:24.58]And I must admit, today my-my inner pessimist
[06:29.26]Seems to have got the best of me
[06:32.23]We start out sugared up on kool-aid and manifest destiny
[06:37.44]And we memorize all the president's names like little trained monkeys
[06:41.24]And we're spit into the world so many spinny-eyed TV junkies
[06:47.18]Incapable of unravelling the military industrial mystery
[06:51.35]Preemptively pacified with history book history
[06:55.89]And I've been around the world now and I can see this about America
[07:01.58]The mind control is steep here, man
[07:06.13]The myopia is deep here
[07:08.96]And behold those that try to expose the reality
[07:14.10]Who really, who really try to realize democracy
[07:20.37]Are shot with rubber bullets and gassed off the streets
[07:23.59]While the global power brokers are kept clean and discreet
[07:26.71]Behind a wall, behind a moat
[07:29.28]And that is all, that's all, that's oh-oh
[07:32.21]That's all she wrote
[07:35.82]🎵
[07:40.35]As my heart beats an s-s-s, o-o-o, s-s-s
[07:45.84]'Cause folks just really couldn't care, care, care less, less, less
[07:50.85]As long as every day is super-bowl sunday
[07:53.97]And larger than life women in lingerie
[07:57.98]Are pouting at us from every bus stop
[08:00.25]She loves me, she loves me not, she loves me, she loves me not
[08:04.17]She loves me, she loves me not
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[08:19.78]And, "Big government should not stand between a man and his money"
[08:24.99]I mean, "What's good for business is good for the country"
[08:30.33]Our children still take that lie like communion
[08:34.13]The same old line the confederacy used on the union
[08:38.88]Conjugate liberty into libertarian
[08:40.97]And medicate it, associate it with deregulation, privatization
[08:44.22]We won't even know we're slaves on a corporate plantation
[08:48.37]Somebody say hallelujah
[08:49.93]Somebody say damnation
[08:52.36]'Cause the profit system follows the path of least resistance
[08:55.00]And the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked
[08:58.58]Makes it serpentine, capitalism is the devil
[09:02.24]Is the devil's wet dream
[09:04.37]So just give me my Judy Garland drugs and let me get back to work
[09:08.97]'Cause the Empire State Building is the tallest building in New York
[09:14.02]And, and I always got the feeling you just liked to hear it fall
[09:21.39]Off your tongue
[09:23.83]But I remember my name
[09:28.02]In your mouth
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[09:34.77]And I don't think I was done
[09:37.72]Hearing it close to my ear on a whisper's way to a moan
[09:42.24]But Pavlov hits me with more bad news
[09:44.74]Every time I answer the phone
[09:46.43]So I play and I sing and I just let it ring
[09:50.79]All day when I'm at home
[09:53.00]🎵
[09:57.19]A defacto choice of macro or microcosmic melancholy
[10:03.70]But baby, any way you slice it
[10:05.77]I'm thinkin' I could just as soon use the time alone
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