I've looked up and down the alley
I have searched for you in school
I've slinked around them backstreets
drivin' truck 'n' eatin' gruel.
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A single organic russet potato
began sprouting roots
on my kitchen table
at the bottom of
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Daylight to sundown
lights go on
lights turn out
Neon slips to shadow
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Why's it gotta be the hard way
the long way
the somebody done somebody wrong
King Kong on my prong way
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I once was a young man
who life dealt a bad hand
and I've been knocked down to my knees
You've seen me in soup lines
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I hate to work
I don't want your job
Not gonna play your fool
be a corporate cog
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If you you don't want my kind slinkin' around.
you wanna push me around
hold me back,
run me down,
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I don't work like you.
I don't play like you.
I don't talk
or stalk my prey like you.
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I got nobody
Hells my home
nobody cares
and I'm all alone
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How could Smarty Jones
lose the Belmont Stakes
Around the final stretch
looked like dirty money
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