Tonart: G major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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They're gonna fry Tim McVeigh
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She said, "That nice guy who was on the cov
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er of all of those magazines?
Why would they want to do
a thing like that?"
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I said, "Well, he killed all those
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people in Oklahoma City"
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people don't kill people
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And I said, "Well, yeah, ma
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But they gotta do something
She said, "Why don't they just
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To bite off both his ears?"
Verse 2
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And I say true revolutionaries
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Am
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Never bomb buildings
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Never bomb buildings
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It attracts too much attention
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They never bomb buildings
Verse 3
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A little girl down my block was born
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with silicone in her breasts
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Turned out her grandmother and her mother
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had both had the implants done
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Well, evolution took care
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And I wondered what it is about
So many women with big breasts
And I thought, well,
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maybe it has somethin' to do with the weight
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The burden they're asked to
carry in the world
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To feed it, to be the object of
And I wondered what burdens the rest of us
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are carrying all the time
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And I couldn't help thinking
Verse 4
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True revolutionaries
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Never bomb buildings
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Em
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It attracts too much at tention
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They never bomb buildings
Verse 5
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And I decided to go out for a walk
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look everybody I see in the eyes
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And not be the first to avert my eyes
No matter what
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I was planning to be gone
But things started happening
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And I didn't return for two years
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By which time I was the heavyweight
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And the expectant father of sixteen children
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By thirteen different wo
Interlude 1
men
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Verse 6
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I was in a fishing village in coastal Spain
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It was our lady of abortion Sunday afternoon
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in their first trimester
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Filed before the priest to
receive the blessing of
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"Try again sometime, try again"
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The old barber had dyed his hair
green for the occasion
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And pierced his nipples
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And was riding his skateboard to the statue
of Conan O'Brien
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Who threw coins given
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to them by their parents
Verse 7
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Achingly handsome had just
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"How to build bombs in your basement"
All the young girls put away
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their notebooks dreamily
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And put dandelions in their
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hair
Verse 8
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The chimpanzee who had managed
to type out Hamlet three years before
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Was sitting in the third floor office
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of the driver's license building
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Typing out zoning ordinances
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Typing out learner's permits
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Verse 9
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Pee-wee Herman Herman was sitting
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in the central square in the grass
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While all the townspeople
moved to him slowly
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And sung lullabies in the grass
Verse 10
And in Greenwich Village
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And in Scottsbluff, Nebraska
No one sits around funky little
Talking revolution
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Now they get a Starbucks to go
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They go back to their basketball
games
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Where they see who can jump higher
Who can take it to the rack
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And they all wear baseball caps
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Except they don't say Yankees or
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Dodgers or Cardinals anymore
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They say Nike, Reebok, Adidas
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Because the pro players don't play
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They play for shoe companies
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And the kids aren't fooled
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Nah, they're just biding their time
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Waiting for the millennium to come
When all the computers will crash
Because the best scientists in the world
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Forgot to make them read zero
Verse 11
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True revolutionaries
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Never bomb buildings
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D
True revolutionaries
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Never bomb buildings
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It attracts too much at tention
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Em
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They never bomb
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buildings
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Verse 12
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Now I was sitting there with a
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headful of dark thoughts
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Suddenly everything cleared
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And I realized that the only
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Is to be able to love who you want
How you want
And where you want
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So I took off all my clothes
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Rowed out to the middle of a lake
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And I jumped in
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And I looked back at you an d said
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"Come on! Get wet!"
Verse 13
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True revolutionaries
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Am
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Never bomb building s
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True revolutionaries
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Never bomb buildings
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It attracts too much at tention
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Em
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They never bomb buildings
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They never bomb buildings
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They never bomb buildings
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