My agent called with real good news, a steady gig at last

A hundred bucks plus dinner, everything in cash

But he said, “I gotta warn you, This ain’t no matinee

You don’t go on till 10 p.m. Do you think that it’s OK?”

 

I was feelin’ real good but then I got a shock

I looked down at my watch and I said, “Oh my God, it’s 11o’clock”

 

It’s Friday night, the time is right The working week is done

The big game’s on the tube, let’s go and have some fun

We’ve got a place to crash, we’ve got a lot of beer

A 56-inch TV but there’s just one problem here

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LIES, LIES, LIES

Lies, lies, lies. All we get is lies, lies, lies

All we get is lies and hate, that’s not what makes this country great

Lies, lies, lies. All we get is lies, hate and fear

We’ll get through it, we’ll survive but we never thought that this could happen here     

 

The first amendment is the core of everything we’re standing for

It’s plain for anyone to see the press is not the enemy

Something here is very wrong and it’s going on far too long

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The rising tide is here to stay but they just look the other way

It’s quite evident to all that we don’t really need a wall

Something here is very wrong and it’s going on far too long

 

Lies, lies, lies. All we get is lies, lies, lies

All we get is lies and hate. That’s not what makes this country great

Lies, lies, lies. All we get is lies, hate and fear

We will rise above the fray because truth will always persevere

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WHAT DID WE DO?                  

What did we do before the Internet? Was there a reason to get out of bed?

Wrote letters, talked face-to-face. Our fingers did the walking all over the place

Listened to the radio, read magazines

Shopped ’til we dropped. What a routine               

 

What did we do? How’d we survive? How did we go about and live our lives?

What did we do? How did we make it? Did we think we were tough enough to take it?

 

What did we do before we all had cars? Guess we couldn’t travel very far

Rode horses and went on trains. Of course, there weren’t any air-o-planes

We pedaled bikes and went by foot, most of the time we just stayed put

 

What did we do before we learned about fire? Took real long for our clothes to get dry

Huddled in caves ’til the morning light. All things considered, we were doing all right

We didn’t cook, couldn’t take out, had to make do with what was about

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YOU CAN'T FOOL ME                                      

You can fool yourself, you can fool yourself

You can fool yourself but you can’t fool me

You can tell the world everything’s just great

You can fool yourself but you can’t fool me

            

You can poison the water, pollute the air, it’s out there for everyone to see

You can whine all you want about a crisis at the border but the crisis is really in D.C.    

 

You can tell fairy tales about all the accomplishments

Those who pay attention know the score

You can repeat all the lies and all the denials. They don’t hold water anymore

   

When you cater to the wealthy and the big corporations, that doesn’t do much for you and me

Pretend that it’s all for the good of the people. Who it’s good for is easy to see

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WAIT UNTIL NEXT YEAR

This was the best damn team that I ever did see

It had strength up the middle, it had power and speed

Most of the season they could do no wrong

But when October rolled around, it was the same old song

                         

Wait until next year, wait until next year, Exactly what went wrong is all too clear

So near and so far, close but no cigar. It’s a long, long way ’til opening day

And the winter’s getting near. Have another beer and wait until next year

 

We all thought it was a piece of cake, that 12-game lead at the All-Star break

But the pitching was lousy and the hitting got worse

And the next thing I knew, we were out of first

 

The clouts of the summer became the outs of the fall. That baseball team made fools of us all

They squandered that lead and it didn’t take long and October arrived with the same old song

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LYRICS FOR TRACKS 1-6