Putting People On The Moon lyrics

Mary Alice had a baby and he looked just like I did
We got married on a Monday and I been working ever since
Every week down at the Ford Plant but now they say they`re shutting down
Goddamned Reagan in the White House and no one there gives a damn

Double Digit unemployment, TVA be shutting soon
While over there in Huntsville, They puttin` people on the moon

So I took to runnin` numbers for this man I used to know
And I sell a few narcotics and I sell a little blow
I ain`t getting rich now but I`m gettin` more than by
It`s really tough to make a living but a man just got to try

If I died in Colbert County, Would it make the evening news?
They too busy blowin` rockets, Puttin` people on the moon

Mary Alice quit askin` why I do the things I do
I ain`t sayin` that she likes it, but what else I`m gonna do?
If I could solve the world`s problems I`d probably start with hers and mine
But they can put a man on the moon
And I`m stuck in Muscle Shoals just barely scraping by

Mary Alice got cancer just like everybody here
Seems everyone I know is gettin` cancer every year
And we can`t afford no insurance, I been 10 years unemployed
So she didn`t get no chemo so our lives was destroyed
And nothin` ever changes, the cemetery gets more full
And now over there in Huntsville, even NASA`s shut down too

Another Joker in the White House, said a change was comin` round
But I`m still workin` at The Wal Mart and Mary Alice, in the ground
And all them politicians, they all lyin` sacks of shit
They say better days upon us but I`m sucking left hind tit
And the preacher on the TV says it ain`t too late for me
But I bet he drives a Cadillac and I`m broke with some hungry mouths to feed

I wish I`z still an outlaw, was a better way of life
I could clothe and feed my family still have time to love my pretty wife
And if you say I`m being punished. Ain`t he got better things to do?
Turnin` mountains into oceans Puttin` people on the moon

Turnin` mountains into oceans Puttin` people on the moon