Sixto Rodriguez - The Establishment Blues Lyrics
The mayor hides the crime rateCouncil woman hesitatesPublic gets irate but forget the vote dateWeatherman complaining, predicted sun, it's rainingEveryone's protesting, boyfriend keeps suggestingYou're not like all of the rest.Garbage ain't collected, women ain't protectedPoliticians using people, they've been abusingThe mafia's getting bigger, like pollution in the riverAnd you tell me that this is where it's at.Woke up this moming with an ache in my headSplashed on my clothes as I spilled out of bedOpened the window to listen to the newsBut all I heard was the Establishment's Blues.Gun sales are soaring, housewives find life boringDivorce the only answer smoking causes cancerThis system's gonna fall soon, to an angry young tuneAnd that's a concrete cold fact.The pope digs population, freedom from taxationTeeny Bops are up tight, drinking at a stoplightMiniskirt is flirting I can't stop so I'm hurtingSpinster sells her hopeless chest.Adultery plays the kitchen, bigot cops non-fictionThe little man gets shafted, sons and monies draftedLiving by a time piece, new war in the far east.Can you pass the Rorschach test?It's a hassle is an educated guess.Well, frankly I couldn't care less.
