| White houses in neat little rows
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| Contrasting against the sky
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| Tumbled down black shacks over the tracks
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| Children so hungry they could cry
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| The chrome, the steel, the metal dream
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| Leaving the teepee to rot
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| The escapist young mind, left behind
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| Saving dimes for community pot
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| You better get straight
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| Better, better get straight
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| I feel you better get straight right now
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| Better get straight babe
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| They’re crying out for love
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| All the time
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| But they fail to see the neighbors eyes
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| The TV is on, 6 o clock news
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| And channels in full colored lies
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| The company meets, the president speaks
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| He’s young but his bones creak
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| Young girl dresses for the highschool dance
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| And the guy next door is dying for a beat
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| Get straight
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| You better, yes you better get straight babe
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| Did you hear what I said?
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| I said to you, that you, you better get straight
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| They put a bible in a drawer
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| Of the motel room
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| And it’s crying out to be read
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| But it stays right there, collecting dust
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| No one understands what’s being said
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| Lovers make love in country boxes
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| What will tomorrow bring?
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| They’ve been told that it’s wrong
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| But they don’t give a damn
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| Soon another life it will bring
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| You better get straight babe
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| Yeah, you better get straight baby |