Puttin’ People on the Moon - Vocal Recut / Remixed / Remastered

Mary Alice had a baby
And she 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's in the White House
And nobody gives a damn

Double-digit unemployment
TVA is shutting soon
While over there in Huntsville
They puttin' people on the moon

So I took to runnin' numbers for the 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're 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
They can put a man on the moon
But I'm stuck down here, just scraping by

Mary Alice got cancer just like everybody here
It seems everyone I know is gettin' cancer every year
And we can't afford no insurance, I've 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

Motherfucker in the White House said a change was comin' 'round
But I'm workin' at the Walmart, Mary Alice, in the ground
And all them politicians, they're 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
Woo!

And 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

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