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're shutting down
Goddamned Reagan's in the White House
And nobody 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 gettin' rich now
But I'm gettin' more than by
It's really tough to make a living
But a man's just gotta 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, she 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 down here just 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 ten years unemployed
So she didn't get no chemo
And our lives they was destroyed

Nothin' ever changes
Cemetery gets more full
And now over there in Huntsville
Even NASA's shut down too

Another joker's in the White House
Said a change was comin' round
But I'm workin' at the Wal-Mart
Mary Alice, in the ground

And all them politicians
They all lyin' sacks of shit
They say better days upon us
But it's 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
Snd I'm broke with hungry mouths to feed

And I wish I's still an outlaw
Was a better way of life
I could clothe and feed my family
Still have time to love my pretty wife

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