Lyrics:
There is something going on down here" "In Vallejo"
"FedEx!"
"In Vallejo, California" "In Vallejo"
"In Vallejo, California"
He said he's just
helpful
Back in 1880 Rockefeller was monopolizing oil and controlling every drop of it
And so the government enacted antitrust to circumvent the company
can from an acre of trees. And instead of chopping down all the redwoods in Humboldt County and turning Northern California, Oregon and Washington
degré d'latitude
Se tient la Barracuda
Tanker Corporation
Son patron m'a donné en location
À l'Union Oil Company de Californie
Cent vingt mille
degré d'latitude
Se tient la Barracuda
Tanker Corporation
Son patron m'a donné en location
À l'Union Oil Company de Californie
Cent vingt mille
been too long since we dreamed about that land of
california, the general chicago home sweet home
and thursday's oh so sad except the water ritual.
the workers from the mountains to the sea
And he's here to fight for you and fight for me
The lumber camps out in Missoula to the quarries of Spokane
To the oil
Stamped dead center
On the letter head of the company mail
Four decades a spitting image
Of the animal I portrayed
At Maddox Table a yoke was carved
I SEEN SOME HARD TIMES AND I'VE KNOWN BAD COMPANY
BUT WHAT I DO WITH MY OWN DAMN LIFE, THAT'S BETWEEN MY MAKER AND ME
I MIGHT GO OUT TO CALIFORNIA. I
whales to save.
Now we can thank the companies, for scouring the deep, blue seas.
Lookin' for ivory and perfume, oil to light your living rooms.
Hooray,
World Water)
Now all of California is drinking it (New World Water)
Way up north and down south is drinking it (New World Water)
Used to have minerals
robots, passin by, everyday (I'm seein robots!)
You drive in Hollywood, long hair, Buick Regal
License in California, ID's phony not illegal
Cash registers, cash registers, cash registers, cash registers
Oil drilling off the coast of Northern California
Skyscrapers built without opening
Cash registers, cash registers
Oil-drilling off the coast of Northern California
Skyscrapers designed without opening windows
Cows in the dairy losing
On the factory floor
(There's nothing more to gain
From the company store)
The unions all got busted
By the reps that you trusted
The future of our nation
Got
want to eat
I think about sacrificing my meat
8-hour flight making me weak
California fires up in heat
Why are we not protesting up in the streets
I dig
and seizures,
A tidal wave came and claimed the coast of Indonesia,
Quakes in Iran, Japan and California,
Greenhouse gas turned the world into a sauna,
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