| They were digging a new foundation in Manhattan
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| And they discovered a slave cemetery there
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| May their souls rest easy
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| Now that lynching is frowned upon
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| And we’ve moved on to the electric chair
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| And I wonder who’s gonna be president
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| Tweedle dumb or tweedle dumber?
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| And who’s gonna have the big
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| Blockbuster box office this summer?
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| How about we put up a wall between houses and the highway?
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| And you can go your way, and i can go my way
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| Except all the radios agree with all the TVs
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| And the magazines agree with all the radios
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| And I keep hearing that same damn song everywhere I go
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| Maybe I should put a bucket over my head
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| And a marshmallow in each ear
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| And stumble around for another dumb-numb week
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| For another hum drum hit song to appear
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| People used to make records
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| As in a record of an event
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| The event of people playing music in a room
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| Now everything is cross-marketing
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| It’s about sunglasses and shoes
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| Or guns and drugs
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| You choose
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| We got it rehashed
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| We got it half-assed
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| We’re digging up all the graves
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| And we’re spitting on the past
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| And you can choose between the colors
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| Of the lipstick on the whores
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| Cause we know the difference between
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| The font of 20% more
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| And the font of teriyaki
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| You tell me
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| How does it make you feel?
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| You tell me what’s real?
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| And they say that alcoholics are always alcoholics
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| Even when they’re as dry as my lips for years
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| Even when they’re stranded on a small desert island
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| With no place within 2,000 miles to buy beer
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| And I wonder
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| Is he different?
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| Is he different?
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| Has he changed? |
| What’s he about…
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| Or is he just a liar with nothing to lie about?
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| Am I headed for the same brick wall
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| Is there anything I can do about anything at all?
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| Except go back to that corner in Manhattan
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| And dig deeper, dig deeper this time
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| Down beneath the impossible pain of our history
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| Beneath unknown bones
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| Beneath the bedrock of the mystery
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| Beneath the sewage systems and the path train
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| Beneath the cobblestones and the water mains
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| Beneath the traffic of friendships and street deals
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| Beneath the screeching of kamikaze cab wheels
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| Beneath everything I can think of to think about
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| Beneath it all, beneath all get out
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| Beneath the good and the kind and the stupid and the cruel
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| There’s a fire just waiting for fuel
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| There’s a fire just waiting for fuel |