Puttin' People on the Moon

Mary Alice had a baby and she looked just like I did
We got married on a Monday and I've been working ever since
Every week down at the Ford plant but now they're shutting down
Goddamn Reagan's in the White House and nobody gives a damn
Double digit unemployment, TVA's shutting soon
And over there in Huntsville, they're putting people on the moon
So I took to running numbers for a man I used to know
And I sell a few narcotics and I sell a little blow
And I ain't getting rich now but I'm getting more than by
It's really tough to make a living but a man's still got to try
And if I died in Colbert County would it make the evening news?
They're too busy blowing rockets, putting people on the moon
Mary Alice she's quit asking why I do the things I do
I ain't saying that she likes it but what else is she 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 getting cancer every year
And she can't afford no insurance and got ten years unemployed
So she didn't get no chemo and our lives it was destroyed
Nothing really changes, the cemetery gets more full
And over there in Huntsville, even NASA's shut down too
They're saying in the Tea Party that a change is coming round
But I'm working at the Wal-Mart and Mary Alice in the ground
And all them politicians, they're all lying sacks of shit
They say better days are upon us but it's sucking left hand too
And the preacher on the TV says it ain't too late for me
But I bet he's driving a Cadillac
When I was a Stellan Apple there was a better way of life
I could clothe and feed my family and
Still have time to love my pretty wife
And if you say I got it coming you've got better things to do
Turning mountains into oceans and putting people on the moon
Turning mountains into oceans and putting people on the moon