Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Puttin' People On The Moon, artist - Drive-By Truckers. Album song The Dirty South, in the genre Иностранный рок
Date of issue: 31.12.2003
Record label: New West
Song language: English
Puttin' People On The Moon |
Mary Alice had a baby and he looked just like I did |
We got married on a Monday and I been working ever since |
Every week down at the Ford Plant but now they say they’re shutting down |
Goddamned Reagan in the White House and no one there gives a damn |
Double Digit unemployment, tva be shutting soon |
While over there in Huntsville, They puttin' people on the moon |
So I took to runnin' numbers for this man I used to know |
And I sell a few narcotics and I sell a little blow |
I ain’t getting rich now but I’m gettin' more than by |
It’s really tough to make a living but a man just got to try |
If I died in Colbert County, Would it make the evening news? |
They too busy blowin' rockets, Puttin' people on the moon |
Mary Alice quit askin' why I do the things I do |
I ain’t sayin' that she likes it, but what else I’m gonna do? |
If I could solve the world’s problems I’d probably start with hers and mine |
But they can put a man on the moon |
And I’m stuck in Muscle Shoals just barely scraping by |
Mary Alice got cancer just like everybody here |
Seems everyone I know is gettin' cancer every year |
And we can’t afford no insurance, I been 10 years unemployed |
So she didn’t get no chemo so our lives was destroyed |
And nothin' ever changes, the cemetery gets more full |
And now over there in Huntsville, even nasa’s shut down too |
Another Joker in the White House, said a change was comin' round |
But I’m still workin' at The Wal Mart and Mary Alice, in the ground |
And all them politicians, they all lyin' sacks of shit |
They say better days upon us but I’m sucking left hind tit |
And the preacher on the tv says it ain’t too late for me |
But I bet he drives a Cadillac and I’m broke with some hungry mouths to feed |
I wish I’z still an outlaw, was a better way of life |
I could clothe and feed my family still have time to love my pretty wife |
And if you say I’m being punished. |
Ain’t he got better things to do? |
Turnin' mountains into oceans Puttin' people on the moon |
Turnin' mountains into oceans Puttin' people on the moon |