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[amerikat]

I'll start. Words(and music) are by Brenda Kahn.

"Goldfish Don't Talk Back"

I used to get scared
when a plane flew by.
thought a russian bomb
was droppin out of the sky.

Thought I'd fight and die and go to heaven.
but I learned some things since then.
Like know one really knows what two plus two is,
and you can't always trust the man in blue.
And you may think the worlds gone mad
but baby they think it's you.

Every candy store on the block sells crack.
every supreme court ruling is three steps back.
There's acid rain in the drinking water.
But the goldfish they don't talk back.

This song is for Phil Ocks.
He hung himself with a length of rope.
took his job seriously weren't no nine to five folk singer like the ones on MTV.
That's what (unknown name) said to me on the corner of Clinton and Houston Streets where

Every candy store on the block sells crack.
every supreme court ruling is three steps back
There's acid rain in the drinking water.
But the goldfish don't talk back.

I went down to the Laundromat
and there's a woman with a face like sundays cat,
tryin to wash her only clothes'
the clothes on her back.
shes in a St. Vincent wheelchair
but it looks like St Vincent doesn't care.
A sixty pound skeleton in under ware,
Mr. president the nation doesn't look secure
are you sure what you spent all our money for?

There's a great big hole where the sky used to be
and an asshole on my tv
who says act now you get nine issues free
plus an issue of women with an eating disease.

Every candy store on the block sells crack.
every supreme court ruling is three steps back
There's acid rain in the drinking water.
But the goldfish don't talk back

Lets not be goldfish.