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Lyrics for Trickle Down by Ani Difranco:
| | | Artist: | Ani Difranco |
| | Album: | Up Up Up Up Up Up | | Track: | Trickle Down | | | | Date Added: | 24/10/2007 | | Views: | 87 | | | | Lyrics: | you cease to smell the steel plant after you've lived here for a while
smoke is snow is ash
are leaves that blow through the air aloft
and our houses dim their siding to the same soot
grey style
and we hang our laundry out on sundays when they turn the furnaces off
and
everybody's daddy works up on the line
the steinbrenners and the wilczewskis have been here
the longest time
and everybody's mommy squints into the sun
sunday afternoon after all
the laundry's done
sometimes a distant siren can set a dog to barking late at
night
and then it dominos on down 'til every dog is joining in
and the first rumors of
the lay-offs sing like a distant siren might
and we all perked up our ears and paced the
fence of the ensuing din
and every night were glued to the tv news at six o'clock
'cuz
it was hard to tell what was real and what was talk
and they explained about the cutbacks all
with earnest frowns
but what they didn't say was that the plant was slowly shutting down
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this town is not the kind of place that money people go
they make their jokes up
on the tv about all the snow
and they're building condos down river from where the plant had
been
but nobody really lives here now that the air is clean
and the president assured
us that it was all gonna trickle down
like it'd be raining so much money that we'd be sad to
see the sun
mr. wilczewski's brother had some business out in denver so they left town
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everybody knows they were the lucky ones
you cease to smell the steel plant after
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