Tonalité : Eb major
Verse 1
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Indifference is not an option.
Only outspoken insistence that drug
A
use will not be tolerated.
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D
G
Everyone is obligated to become hysterical at the mere thought of drug use,
just as office
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Bm
workers in 1934 were obligated
G
to scream curses like
Bm
D
Am
Bb
Pavlov's frothing dogs when the
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G
leader appeared on screen,
A
and they'd better scream loud and scream ugly. I
G
remember during the
Mike
Bell flap,
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G
Eyewitness
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News is go ing around prowling
the streets, you know,
F
A
sticking mics in everybody's face.
G
Well, I think that
making the money they do, they
should be serving as an example.
Now, she gets
F
G
plenty of mic time.
And here's a black cat working on
A
some underground cables,
G
straightens up and says,
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G
A
I think if someone uses drugs it's his own business.
G
C
Bm
G
Boy did they get that mic out of his face.
He didn't even get the word out.
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G
Freedom of the press to say what they
want to hear and call it the voice of
A
the people.
G
Urine tests.
F
G
Our pioneer ancestors would piss
in their graves at the thought
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of urine tests to decide whether
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G
a man is competent to do his job.
The measure of confidence is performance.
A
G
When told that
General
Grant had a drinking
problem,
Lincoln said, find out what brand of whiskey
drinks and distribute it to
A
the other generals.
G
Dr.
Halstead, one of the great
American surgeons who
introduced antiseptic procedures at a time when surgeons,
far from donning
rubber gloves,
did not even wash their hands.
And the death rate from
A
G
post -operative infections ran up to 80%.
A
G
A
Well he was a lifelong morphine ad dict
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A
but he could still hack it and hack it good and
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G
Bb
he lost no patience because of
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his personal habit.
G
In those good old days a man's
personal habits were
A
personal and private.
Am
G
Now even a citizen's blood and
A
urine are subject to
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A
arbitrary seizure and
search.
G
Why the world's greatest detective
could not
A
have survived a urine test.
G
Which is at this time
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Holmes cocaine or morphine?
A
G
Watson asks, it's rather disquieting to speculate
Am
A
what may lurk behind this
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colossal red herring of the war against
drugs.
A war neither likely nor designed
Am
to succeed.
G
One thing is obvious,
D
G
old clean money and new dirty money are
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A
shaking hands onto the table,
G
an d the old tried -and -failed police approach will
A
continue and escalate.
G
In politics, if something doesn't work,
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that is the best
G
reason to go on doing it.
A
If something looks like it might work,
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D
stay well away.
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A thing like that could make waves,
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and the boys at the top, they don't like waves.
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