You got my name but I ain't got yours
Is there a purpose to walking out of my door
I stuck on top the levee with my clothes and all my things
If you want to help me just help me sing we singin like this
La la la la la...
If I could I'd join a union and I'd scream for money all day
Nothing else I wanna do or think or be or feel or say
I just wanna have some time to myself if that's all right
So if you want me I'll be here all morning afternoon and night right here and singin
La la la la la...
I talk to folks up and down the sidewalk, they don't ever listen what I got to say
The same for you and all the state legislature y'all don't listen anyway
You never know until it's past too late which way the world is gonna bend
Screaming hymns of days long past to the wall and the ocean my friend, I'm happy singin
La la la la la...
Even in my own daydreams I never get so very far
I had one the other day I got run over by a rich man's car
All the EMTs came to get me but I didn't have any insurance
I tried to get up and find the first doctor I could but I did not have any more endurance
So then I grabbed my wallet and tossed out some change and a card that had my name
I said "you can be ensured that this is what they call me", they said "that's not what everybody claim"
So then I looked him in the eye as my final breath escaped through the hole in my chest
With final words screaming "he who dies richest dies best" I was sittin singin
Singin singin singin singin singin singin singin sing it with me
La la la la la...
credits
from Battery Acid,
released November 25, 2005
Jak Locke: all instruments / vocals
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