Produced by Polarity/1
P/1: lead & background vocals, track
Scott Allen: background vocals & bass
Pete McCann: guitar
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Ty-d-bowl, microchips, Crazy Glue
My baby's tits
Seranwrap and the Longines Symphonette
All this good stuff in the free world you can get
But it ain't enough. It ain't enough
Can't get enough
Look like ya need a buff
Look like ya need a buff
Look like the man needs to buff his stuff
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CHORUS: Step back! Take a look at yourself
............Look up in the air.
............Look into your heart
............Look at your shoeshine.
............Look at your shoeshine
............Can you see yourself
............In your shoeshine?
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Pay good money
For the suede patches on the elbows of your suit
A smart man Got tenure, God knows
All the liberal and conservative superstitions
Got all the answers and the positions
Cerebral bumps and grinds
Cold analyze the headlines
But the man in the cardboard boudoir
Wants ta know:
Can ya slurp your degree on the soupline?
He say:
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CHORUS
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Flip that channel ZING!
That cold rush to the brain
The funny guy on the news is predicting pain
Doing the dirty deed by the light of the TV set
Everybody wants that sweet thang
Everybody wants to forget
Are we looking young? Are we well hung?
Tell me, are we buffed?
Do you think we've shopped enough?
Are we fast-tracked, laugh-tracked, faxed, waxed, Compact?
Are we infotained?
Do we need that clown with the map to tell us
To come in out of the rain? I say:
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CHORUS