Drive-By Truckers - 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 sh** They say better days upon us but I'm s**ing 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