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[00:00.000]Puttin' People on the Moon - Drive By Truckers
[00:11.809]Mary alice had a baby and he looked just like I did
[00:17.639]We got married on a monday and I been working ever since
[00:23.359]Every week down at the ford plant but now they say they're shutting down
[00:29.267]Goddamned reagan in the white house and noboby gives a damn
[00:35.137]Double digit unemployment tva be shutting soon
[00:41.137]While over there in huntsville they puttin' people on the moon
[00:46.597]So I took to runnin' numbers for this man I used to know
[00:52.327]And I sell a few *** and I sell a little blow
[00:58.707]I ain't getting rich now but I'm gettin' more than by
[01:03.707]It's really tough to make a living but a man just got to try
[01:09.257]If I died in colbert county would it make the evening news
[01:14.837]They too busy blowin' rockets puttin' people on the moon
[01:31.887]Mary alice she quit askin' why I do the things I do
[01:37.487]I ain't sayin' that she likes it but what else I'm gonna do
[01:43.107]If I could solve the world's problems I'd probably start with hers and mine
[01:48.907]But they can put a man on the moon
[01:51.687]And I'm stuck down here just scraping by
[01:56.057]Mary alice got cancer just like everybody here
[02:01.067]Seems everyone I know is gettin' cancer every year
[02:06.567]And we can't afford no insurance I been 10 years unemployed
[02:12.257]So she didn't get no chemo and our lives they was destroyed
[02:18.677]And nothin' ever changes the cemetery gets more full
[02:23.856]And now over there in huntsville even nasa's shut down too
[02:40.382]Another jokers in the white house said a change was comin' round
[02:45.912]But I'm workin' at the wal mart mary alice in the ground
[02:51.862]And all them politicians they all lyin' sacks of s**t
[02:57.142]They say better days upon us but it's sucking left hind tit
[03:02.772]And the preacher on the TV says it ain't too late for me
[03:08.272]But I bet he drives a cadillac and I'm broke with hungry mouths to feed
[03:25.417]And I wish I'z still an outlaw was a better way of life
[03:30.977]I could clothe and feed my family still have time to love my pretty wife
[03:42.556]If you say I'm being punished ain't he got better things to do
[03:47.986]Turnin' mountains into oceans puttin' people on the moon
[03:59.706]Turnin' mountains into oceans puttin' people on the moon