Joni Mitchell Tax Free Lyrics:
Front rooms
Back rooms
Slide into tables
Crowd into bathrooms
Joke around
Cheap talk
Deep talk
Talk, talk, talk around the clock
Crawl home
Lie down
Teeth chatter
Heart pounds
I don't feel so good
I don't feel so good
Push a button to escape
Preacher on the tube
crying "Lord!"
There's evil in this land
Evangelist:
"Rock and roll music!"
"Cast down these dope-fiends
And there noisy bands!"
"Damn their souls!"
Preacher preaching
love like vengeance
Preaching love like hate
Calling for large donations
Promising estates
Rolling lawns and angel bands
Behind the pearly gates
You know, he will have
his in this life
But yours will have to wait
He's immaculately tax free
"Mulitiple hundreds of
thousands of ..."
Tax free
"Hundreds and
millions of dollars"
Tax free
"A hundred billion dollars!
And who is paying the price?
Who, who
"Your children are"
Pissed off
Jacked up
Scream into the mike
Spit into the loving cup
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Strut like a rooster
March like a man
God's hired hands and
the devil bands
Packing the same grandstands
Different clothes
"Pot in their pockets!"
Different hair
"Sexually active"
Raise a screaming
guitar or a bible in
the air
Theatre of anguish
Theatre of glory
God's hired hands and
the devil bands
Oh come let us adore---ME!
Lord, there's danger in this land
You get witch-hunts and wars
When church and state hold hands
Fuck it!
Tonight I'm going dancing
With the drag queens
and the punks
Big beat deliver me
From this sanctimonious skunk
We're no flaming angels
And he's not heaven sent
How can he speak for the
Prince of Peace
When he's hawk-right militant
And he's immaculately tax free
"Our nation has lost its guts!"
Save me
"Our nation has lost
its strength"
Tax free
"Our nation has
whimpered and cried"
Save me
"And petted the Castros"
Tax free
"The Khomeinis' and
the Kaddafis'"
Save me
"For so long"
Tax free
"That we don't know how
to act like a man"
Save me
"I think that we
should turn the United
States Marines
loose on that little
island south of
Florida and
stop that problem!"
"I am preachin' love, I am!"
© 1985 Crazy Crow Music BMI
Lyrics: Tax Free, Joni Mitchell [end]