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Ani Difranco
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Pavlov hits me with more bad news
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Every time I answer the phone
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So I play and I sing and I just let it ring
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All day when I'm at home
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A de facto choice of macro
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Or microcosmic melancholy
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But, baby, any way you slice it
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I'm thinkin' I could just as soon use the time alone
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Yes, the goons have gone global
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And the CEO's are shredding files
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And the [unverified] and the republic rats
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Are flashing their toothy smiles
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And Uncle Tom is posing for a photo op with the Oval Office clan
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And Uncle Sam is rigging cockfights in the Promised Land
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And that knife you stuck in my back is still there
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It pinches a little when I sigh and moan
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And these days I'm thinkin' I could just as soon use the time alone
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'Cuz all the wrong people have the power of suggestion
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And the freedom of the press is meaningless
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If nobody asks a question, I mean, causation by definition
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Is such a complex compilation of factors
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That to even try, to say why, is to oversimplify
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But that's a far cry, isn't it, dear?
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From acting like you're the only one there
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Unrepentantly self-centered and unfair
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Enter all suckers scrambling for the scoop
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Exit Mr. Eye Contact who took his flirt and flew the coop
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But whatever, no matter, no fishin' trips, no fishin'
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'Cuz Mamma's officially out of commission
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And did I mention in there somewhere
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Did I mention somewhere in there that I traded Babe Ruth?
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Yes, I traded the only player that was bigger than the game
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And I can't even tell you why 'cuz you'd think I'm insane
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And that's the truth
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And the music industry mafia is pimping girl power
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Sniping off their sharpshooter singles from their Styrofoam towers
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And hip-hop is tied up in the back room with a logo stuffed in it's mouth
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'Cuz the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house
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But then I'm getting away from myself
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As I get closer and closer to home
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And these days I'm thinkin'
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I could just as soon use the time alone
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An' I must admit, today, my inner pessimist
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Seems to have got the best of me
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We start out sugared up on Kool-aid and manifest destiny
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And we memorize all the president's names like little trained monkeys
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And then we're spit into the world
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So many spiny-eyed TV junkies
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Incapable of unraveling the military industrial mystery
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Preemptively pacified with history book history
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An' I've been around the world now
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And I can see this about America
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The mind control is steep here, man
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The myopia is deep here
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And behold, those that try to expose the reality
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Who really try to realize democracy
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Are shot with rubber bullets and gassed off the streets
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While the global power brokers are kept clean and discreet
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Behind a wall, behind a moat and that is all, that's all she wrote
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An' my heart beats an [unverified]
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'Cuz folks just couldn't care, care, care, less, less, less
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As long as every day is Super Bowl Sunday
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And larger than life women in lingerie
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Are pouting at us from every bus stop
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She loves me, she loves me not, she loves me, she loves me not
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And "Big government should not stand between a man and his money"
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'Cuz "What's good for business is good for the country"
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Our children still take that lie like communion
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The same old line the confederacy used on the union
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Conjugate liberty into libertarian and medicate it
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Associate it with deregulation, privatization
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We won't even know we're slaves on a corporate plantation
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Somebody say hallelujah, somebody say damnation
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'Cuz the profit system follows the path of least resistance
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And the path of least resistance
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Is what makes the river crooked
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Makes it serpentine
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Capitalism is the devil's wet dream
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So just give me my Judy Garland drugs and let me get back to work
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'Cuz the Empire State building is the tallest building in New York
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And I always got the feeling you just liked to hear it fall off your tongue
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But I remember my name in your mouth
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And I don't think I was done hearing it close to my ear
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On a whispers way to a moan
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But Pavlov hits me with more bad news every time I answer the phone
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So I play and I sing and I just let it ring all day when I'm at home
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A de facto choice of macro or microcosmic melancholy
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But, baby, any way you slice it
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I'm thinkin' I could just as soon use
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The time alone
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