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Lyrics for Bought And Sold by Dar Williams:
| | | Artist: | Dar Williams |
| | Album: | End Of The Summer | | Track: | Bought And Sold | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 91 | | | | Lyrics: | Well we're heading for a past that you leave not defend
Where the downtowns hold the sadness of
you can't go back again
It's there you'll find the rust and debtors
Motel signs with
missing letters
Cause there's a monster on the outskirts
Says it knows what your town
needs
Then it eats it up like nothing and it won't spit out the seeds
And we can be the
super shoppers
We can say we're really smart
We can say our town is doing fine without a
beating heart
We can even say the money saved is all our own
It's bought and sold, it's
bought and sold
And we're heading for a nasty business, keeps our country growing
Where
the weapons that we're selling are the only seeds we're sowing
You get to blow the fruits of
all your labors
Sell F-16's to all the neighbors
And we know that it's for money
And
that's how the west gets bargained
You the know the last time this happened
Even Vietnam
got jargoned
And you can say they're out to hunt you
You can say they're out to fish
you
You can join a gang of restless boys
Or start your own militia
You can even say
your violence is all your own
It's bought and sold, it's bought and sold
Well I look up to
the people who are less bought than I
You can show them what you're selling
And they'll
only ask you why
And their paychecks don't have lots of zeros
They're my friends and
they're my heroes
And the TV sets are angry 'cause they just can't make 'em pay
But I like
the way these people read the signs and walk away
And we can call ourselves the makers
And
the keepers of the times
We can spend our sand dollars
And sand nickels and sand
dimes
We can even say prosperity is all our own
It's bought and sold, it's bought and
sold
We can even say our loneliness is all our own
It's bought and sold, it's bought and
sold
It's bought and sold, it's bought and sol | | | |  Reddit | X / Twitter | Facebook | Copy link |
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