Tax Free Lyrics - Mitchell Joni

Front rooms 

Back rooms 

Slide into tables 

Crowd into bathrooms 

Joke around 

Cheap talk 

Deep talk 

Talk, talk, talk around the clock 

Crawl home 

Lie down 

Teeth chatter 

Heart pounds 

I don't feel so good 

I don't feel so good 

Push a button to escape 

Preacher on the tube crying "Lord!" 

There's evil in this land 

Evangelist: 

"Rock and roll music!" 

"Cast down these dope-fiends 

And there noisy bands!" 

"Damn their souls!" 

Preacher preaching love like vengeance 

Preaching love like hate 

Calling for large donations 

Promising estates 

Rolling lawns and angel bands 

Behind the pearly gates 

You know, he will have his in this life 

But yours will have to wait 

He's immaculately tax free 

"Mulitiple hundreds of thousands of ..." 

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"Hundreds and millions of dollars" 

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"A hundred billion dollars! 

And who is paying the price? 

Who, who 

"Your children are" 

Pissed off 

Jacked up 

Scream into the mike 

Spit into the loving cup 

Strut like a rooster 

March like a man 

God's hired hands and the devil bands 

Packing the same grandstands 

Different clothes 

"Pot in their pockets!" 

Different hair 

"Sexually active" 

Raise a screaming guitar or a bible in the air 

Theatre of anguish 

Theatre of glory 

God's hired hands and the devil bands 

Oh come let us adore---ME! 

Lord, there's danger in this land 

You get witch-hunts and wars 

When church and state hold hands 

Fuck it! 

Tonight I'm going dancing 

With the drag queens and the punks 

Big beat deliver me 

From this sanctimonious skunk 

We're no flaming angels 

And he's not heaven sent 

How can he speak for the Prince of Peace 

When he's hawk-right militant 

And he's immaculately tax free 

"Our nation has lost its guts!" 

Save me 

"Our nation has lost its strength" 

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"Our nation has whimpered and cried" 

Save me 

"And petted the Castros" 

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"The Khomeinis' and the Kaddafis'" 

Save me 

"For so long" 

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"That we don't know how to act like a man" 

Save me 

"I think that we should turn the United States Marines 

loose on that little island south of Florida and 

stop that problem!" 

"I am preachin' love, I am!" 

1985 Crazy Crow Music BMI