Melting Pot Lyrics - Mellencamp John Cougar

I met my girl 

She was livin' in the melting pot 

I touched her skin 

It was greasy from the melting pot 

Get yourself a weapon 

Cause they slice you up in the melting pot 

Well, I don't really have time to talk 

But I wish you lots of luck inin the melting pot 

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And in the end it's always just some game 

The heartbreak, the laughter has all been in vain 

Beat up and lied to 

For your whole life 

Kick you in the head 

In the melting pot 

The hawks live upstairs 

Where the air is clean in the melting pot 

They like to swoop down 

And gnaw at your brain in the melting pot 

Money, sex and power 

Jerk you off in the back seat of the melting pot 

Then they say I saw you last night 

And you sure were looking sweet in the melting pot 

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They'd like to buy you off 

If they possibly can in the melting pot 

With temptation and dreams and persuasion 

That's what they got 

In the melting pot 

Keep you bleeding, begging and snotty here 

In the melting pot 

Well, don't you dare laugh out loud 

They'll take away what ytou got 

In the melting pot 

CHORUS 

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