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lyrics

You’re A Live One

Another boomtown ghost
Slinking out of town
Can’t stand here and be idle
Can’t wait for the ship to go down

The factory line was packed up
And moved like a traveling show
Now our home is underwater
I wonder where did all the money go?

They chopped it up like cocaine
Then they cut it dangerous stuff
And they pedaled it to gamblers
Betting on a banker’s bluff

Now everybody’s money
Just buys us less and less
And the shovel’s getting smaller
As we dig out of this mess

You’re a live one
Stuck on the hook but surviving

Politicians in the pockets
And there’s gold stashed in the vaults
And there’s money still in rockets
We’re human too a fault

And we’ve got bankers with no anchors
And the money’s being spent
Don’t come at us with logic
Just shut up and pay rent

You’re a live one
Stuck on the hook but surviving

Talking heads, wagging dogs
Are busy spinning yarns
While in Tennessee the farmers
Are bailing out their barns

No one wants to own a mess
So just kick it on down the road
And no one wants to do with less
When they’re already in the cold

You’re a live one
Stuck on the hook but surviving

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from In The Kitchen, released July 13, 2013

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