dog coffeeperpetrating counter-culture she is walking through the park the first light ugly and more muscular than the dark pushing poems at the urban silence drawing portraits of the passers by sitting on the curb combining traffic sounds getting dirty looks and dirty jeans on the dirty ground she says i can't figure out what kind of life this is comedy or tragedy i just know it's show biz but what if i don't agree with the lines i have to read they don't pay me enough the way i see it freedom and democracy that's the word from washington every day put america to sleep with warm milk and a cliche some people are expendable along the way your dollar is dependable what more can we say would you like some dog coffee it is all that we've got you can have some or you can have not would you like some dog coffee it is all that we've got we're taking care of business and meanwhile some of the beans rot © 1990 ani difranco / righteous babe music |