December 2014

‘ohio aint the only place where rivers catch on fire…
it also happens in hell… ‘

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Annie can’t stop coughing and her nose has sprung a leak
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she always been a sickly girl but never quite so weak
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ma took her to the doctor and they ran lots of tests
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but they don’t know what’s wrong with her, or they aint saying yet

but we moved down to madison before she could talk
she played on that riverbank before she could walk
and the air she breathed most every day came from that factory
that spits into this dirty river and poisons everything

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& all the lungs in Louisville are full of toxic mud
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& everybody knows it’s the Ohio river crud
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the politicians daisy chain pulling on their puds
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they aint doing nothing bout that Ohio river crud

Annie can’t stop laughing when she blames it on the air
we give up on the doctors and she says she don’t care
& they say she aint dying, at least not today
but what’s life for a little girl who is too sick to play?

she writes up in her diary upstairs in her room
always know this simple truth: we are what we consume
the farms and factories up the line make paint and pigs and steel
and all the waste gets pissed out into the public swill

so all the lungs in Louisville are full of toxic mud
& everybody knows it’s the Ohio river crud
the politicians asphyxiate pulling on their puds
they aint doing nothing bout the Ohio river crud

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some want taxes to offset what they take
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but you can’t unfuck the river so what difference would it make?
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health is like your sanity, it aint lost until you lose it
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but what good is Obamacare when you can’t afford to use it?

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so don’t blame all the immigrants
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it’s deep down in the mud
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it’s those rotten fucking factories
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cause ohio river crud

and don’t say it’s just allergies
you know that aint the answer
it aint like the butterflies
are giving people cancer

solo (verse)

& all the lungs in Louisville are full of toxic mud
& everybody knows it’s the Ohio river crud
the politicians circle-jerk pulling on their puds
they aint doing nothing bout that ohio river crud

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and you can call john kasich but he’ll tell you to piss off
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he don’t give a fracking fuck about her little cough
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of course he’s owned by corporatists, so he’s just another koch
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but they’re all owned by corporatists, so they’re just a bunch of cocks

& all the lungs in Louisville are full of toxic mud
& everybody knows it’s the Ohio river crud
cookie-eating kleptocrats’ fingers up our butts
they aint doing nothing bout that Ohio river crud