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ANI DIFRANCO lyrics : "Serpentine"

Pavlov hits me with more bad news every time I answer the
phone
so I play and I sing and I just let it ring,

all day when I'm at home

a defacto choice of

macro-microcosmic melancholy
but baby any way you slice it,
I'm thinkin I could just as soon use the time alone


yeah the goons have gone global
and the CEO's are shredding files

and the democrans and the republicrats
are flashing their toothy smiles


and Uncle Tom is posing for a photo-op with the oval office
klan
and Uncle Sam is riggin' @@#!fights in the promised land

and that knife you stuck in my back is still there
it pinches a little when I sigh and moan
and these days I'm thinkin I could just as soon use the time

alone

cause all the wrong people have the power of suggestion

and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks the
question
I mean causation by definition is such a complex compilation of

factors
that to even try to say why is to oversimplify
that's a far cry, isn't it dear, from acting like you're the

only one there
unrepentantly self-centered and unfair


enter all suckers scrambling for the truth
exit mr. eye-contact who took his flirt and flew the coup
but whatever, no matter, no fishin trips, no fishin

cause momma's officially out of commission

and did I mention in there somewhere

did I mention somewhere in there
that I traded Babe Ruth,
yes I traded the only player

that was bigger than the game
and I can't even tell you why,
cause you'd think I'm insane.

and that's the truth

and the music industry mafia is pimping girl power

sniping off sharp-shooter singles from their styrofoam
towers,
and hip-hop is tied up in the back room with a logo stuffed in

its mouth
cause the master's tools will never dismantle the master's
house


but then, I'm getting away from myself
as I get closer and closer home

and the difference between you and me baby
is I get $#&@ed up when I'm alone


and I must admit today
that my inner pessimist seems to have gotten the best of me
we start out sugared up on kool aid and manifest destiny

and then we memorize all the presidents names like little
trained monkeys
and we spit into the world so many spinny-eyed TV junkies


incapable of unraveling the military-industrial mystery
pre-emptively passified with history book history

and I've been around the world now and I can see this about
America


the mind control is deep here, man
the myopia is steep here, man


and behold those who try to expose the reality
really try to realize democracy
are shot with rubber bullets and gassed off the streets
while the global power brokers are kept clean and discreet
behind a wall

behind a moat
and that is all
that's all
that's all she wrote


and my heart beats an s-s-s o-o-o s-s-s
cause folks just really couldn't care-care-care
less-less-less
as long as every day is superbowl sunday
and larger than life women in lingerie are pouting at us from

every bus stop
she loves me, she loves me not
she loves me, she loves me not
she loves me, she loves me not


and "big government should not stand between a man and his
money"
i mean, "what's good for business is good for the country"
our children still take that lie like communion,
the same old line the Confederacy used on the Union


conjugate liberty into libertarian
and medicated $$#ociated with deregulation privitization
we won't even know we're slaves on a corporate plantation

somebody say hallelujah,
somebody say damnation,
cause the profit system follows the path of least resistance

and the path of least resistance is what makes the river
crooked
makes it serpentine
capitalism is the devil's wet dream

so just give me my Judy garland drugs and let me get back to
work

cause the empire state building is the tallest building in New
York
and I have always got the feeling
you just like to hear it fall off your tongue

but I remember my name in your mouth
and I don't think I was done hearing it close to my ear

on a whisper's way to a moan

Pavlov hits me with more bad news every time I answer the
phone
so I play and I sing and just let it ring,
all day when I'm at home


a defacto choice of
macro-microcosmic melancholy
but baby any way you slice it,
I'm thinkin I could just as soon use the time alone

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