“Trouble Every Day” is just as relevant now as it was then.
I hear the sound of marching feet...
Down Sunset boulevard to Crescent Heights
...and there...at pandora’s box...
We are confronted with...a vast
Quantity of...plastic people...
Take a day and walk around
Watch the Nazi’s run your town
Then go home and check yourself
You think we’re singing
‘bout someone else
This album is still one I listen to regularly after....how many decades now...
Mr. America, walk on by
Your schools that do not teach
Mr. America, walk on by
The minds that won’t be reached
Mr. America try to hide
The emptiness that’s you inside
But once you find that the way you lied
And all the corny tricks you tried
Will not forestall the rising tide
Of hungry freaks, daddy
They won’t go for no more
Great mid-western hardware store
Philosophy that turns away
From those who aren’t afraid to say what’s on their minds
The left behinds of the Great Society
Hungry freaks, daddy
Mr. America, walk on by
Your supermarket dream
Mr. America, walk on by
The liquor store supreme
Mr. America try to hide
The product of your savage pride
The useful minds that it denied
The day you shrugged and stepped aside
You saw their clothes and then you cried
“Those hungry freaks, daddy”
They won’t go for no more
Great mid-western hardware store
Philosophy that turns away
From those who aren’t afraid to say what’s on their minds
The left behinds of the Great Society
Great stuff. My first three albums were BST II, LZ II, and Abbey Road. I think In-a-gadda-da-vida was the fourth, but everybody had to have that one. I didn't have to buy Zappa, my buddy had it and I more or less lived over there anyway ;-)
Hey Fauna...