Goldfish Don't Talk Back - Brenda Kahn
    I used to get scared when the planes went by

    I thought a russian bomb would drop out of the sky
    thought i'd fight and die and go to heaven but i've
    learned some things since then

    Like no one really knows what's 2+2
    you can't always trust The Man in Blue
    you may think the work gone mad
    but baby they think it's you

    Every candy store on the block sells crack
    every supreme court ruling is 3 steps back
    here's acid rain in the drinking water,
    but the goldfish they don't talk back

    This song is for Phil Oaks
    who hung himself with a length of rope
    he took his job seriously,
    he weren't no 9 to 5 folk singer.
    like the ones on MTV
    that's what Kirk Kelly said to me
    on the corner of Clinton and Houston Street where

    Every candy store on the block sells crack
    every supreme court ruling is 3 steps back
    here's acid rain in the drinking water,
    but the goldfish they don't talk back

    I went down to the laundry mat
    there's a woman with a face like a Siamese cat
    trying to wash her only clothes, the clothes on her back
    she's in a St. Vincent's wheelchair,
    but it look like St. Vincent doesn't care
    she's a 60lb skeleton in underwear

    Mr. president
    the nation doesn't look secure
    are you sure what you spent
    all our money for?

    There's a great big hole
    where the sky used to be
    and there's an asshole
    on my TV who says
    "Act now you get nine issues free
    Plus an issue of women with an eating disease@"

    Every candy store on the block sells crack
    every supreme court ruling is 3 steps back
    there's acid rain in the drinking water,
    but the goldfish they don't talk back

    ....let's not be goldfish now.
     

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