Mary Alice had a baby and he looked just like I did We got married on a Monday, and I been working ever since Every week down at the Ford plant but now theyre shutting down Goddamned Reagan in the White House and nobody gives a damn Double digit unemployment, TVA be shutting soon While over there in Huntsville, they puttin people on the moon So I took to runnin numbers for this man I used to know And I sell a few narcotics, and I sell a little blow I aint getting rich now, but Im gettin more than by Its really tough to make a living but a mans just got to try If I died in Colbert County, would it make the evening news? They too busy blowin rockets, puttin people on the moon Mary Alice, she quit askin why I do the things I do I aint sayin that she likes it, but what else Im gonna do? If I could solve the worlds problems, Id probably start with hers and mine But they can put a man on the moon And Im stuck down here just scraping by Mary Alice got cancer, just like everybody here Seems everyone I know is gettin cancer every year And we cant afford no insurance, I been 10 years unemployed So she didnt get no chemo and our lives they was destroyed Nothin ever changes, cemetery gets more full And now over there in Huntsville, even NASAs shut down too Another jokers in the White House, said a change was comin round But Im workin at the WalMart Mary Alice, in the ground And all them politicians, they all lyin sacks of shit They say better days upon us but its sucking left hind tit And the preacher on the TV says it aint too late for me But I bet he drives a Cadillac and Im broke with hungry mouths to feed And I wish Iz still an outlaw, was a better way of life I could clothe and feed my family, still have time to love my pretty wife If you say Im being punished, aint He got better things to do? Turnin mountains into oceans, puttin people on the moon Turnin mountains into oceans, puttin people on the moon
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