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Lyrics for Tis Of Thee by Ani Difranco:
| | | Artist: | Ani Difranco |
| | Album: | Up Up Up Up Up Up | | Track: | Tis Of Thee | | | | Date Added: | 24/10/2007 | | Views: | 72 | | | | Lyrics: | they caught the last poor man on a poor man's vacation
they cuffed him and they confiscated
his stuff
and they dragged his black ass down to the station
and said "ok the streets
are safe now.
all your pretty white children can come out to see spot run
and they
came out of their houses and they looked around
but they didn't see no one.
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and my country tis of thee
to take swings at each other on talk show tv
why don't
you just go ahead and turn off the sun
'cause we'll never live long enough to
undo
everything they've done to you
undo everything they've done to you
and above
96th street,
they're handing out smallpox blankets
so people don't freeze
the
old dogs they got a new trick
it's called criminalize the symptoms
while you spread
the disease
i hold on hard to something
between my teeth when i'm sleeping
and
i wake up and my jaw aches
and the earth is full of earthquakes
and my country
tis of thee
to take shots at each other on prime time tv
why don't you just go ahead
and turn off the sun
'cause we'll never live long enough to
undo everything they've
done to you
undo everything they've done to you
they caught the last poor
man
flying away in a shiny red cape
and they brought him down to the station
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and they said "boy you should know better
than to try and escape"
and i ran away
with the circus
'cause there's still some honest work left for bearded ladies
but it's
not the same goin' town to town
since they put everyone in jail 'cept
the cleavers and
the bradys
and my country tis of thee
to take swings at each other on talk
show tv
why don't you just go ahead and turn off the sun
'cause we'll never live long
enough to
undo everything they've done to you
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