I had you pegged for a suicidal girl Dancing round the fringe of the festive left Petty as your insults were, I never guessed How grand the theft, how wide the heft I knew Who paid you I never...
They think ownership is work They think poverty is sloth They negotiate with knives And we're cut from the same cloth So we greet it with a smirk And the smirk is soon returned And the cloth that we...
I'm a pleasure studies major Concentrating in abuse of power But outside the academy My subjects get so mad at me They rarely seem to grasp The heady concepts I'm exploring They sense that I'm...
We only fought for freedoms that were never out of reach We couldn't tell the difference between property and speech We sided with the owners when provided with the bleach We cleaned the sheets, pink...
Poor old Paul Never gave the O'Connors grandchildren An only child with his eye on the end of the line The hell he raised was family And a happy little family at that At the bottom of an old six-flat...

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I am not a poor boy And my story's seldom interesting I settled in the city Where I found the light most flattering I didn't care to own So I became the greatest lessor And marched right through the...
Beer cans rolling on the ceiling of the Rabbit Clatter round the spot where a hobby turns to habit And my only son, looking no more confused than usual We spin slowly with Samaritans approaching...
Almost falling For the symptoms of the afterglow Almost falling Always waiting For the triumph of the ever slow Weight of wisdom No direction For the tangle of discovery Or connection Light in leather...
Princess suspended in a metal cage While angry apes roll barrels Down blue girders through the red states Me, I'm a condescending caricature Some might say "jump" I might jump But, hey, the...
Can you feel the flame? Can the body bear the thought for long? Can you stand the weight? And just stand around and right the wrong? I went walking in the aimless night A tune upon my tongue I had...

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