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Playing Possum Tab

by Carly Simon


Playing Possum from Playing Possum - 1975

                  
We lived up in Cambridge
                         
And browsed in the hippest newsstands
                              
Then we started our own newspaper
                              
Gave the truth about Uncle Sam
                    
We loved to be so radical
                      
But like a ragged love affair
                    
Some became disenchanted
                          
And some of us just got scared

                       
Now are you playing possum
Keeping a low profile
                              
Are you playing possum for a while

                  
Then you moved to the country
                      
Bought a farm and tilled the land
                              
Then you took your books to India
                              
And got hooked on a holy man
                         
But the wells they do run dry
                  
And the speeches turn to words
                           
And the woods are full of tigers
                        
And freedom's for the birds

                      
Now are you playing possum
Keeping a low profile
                              
Are you playing possum for a while

                 
Now you run a bookstore
                   
And you've taken on a wife
                          
You wear patches on your elbows
              
And you live an easy life
                    
Well, are you finally satisfied
                         
Is it what you were lookin' for
             
Or does it sneak up on you
                     
That there might be something more

                      
Now are you playing possum
Keeping a low profile
                              
Are you playing possum for a while
                              
Are you just playing possum for a while
                              
Are you just playing possum for a while