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White Houses - Animals

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White houses in neat little rows contrasting against the sky
                                                                     
Tumbled down black shacks over the tracks children so hungry they could cry
                                                        
The chrome the steel the metal dream leaving the teepee to rot
                                                            
The escapist young mind left behind saving dimes for community pot

                         
You better get straight
                           
Better, better get straight
                                        
I mean you better get straight right now
                                                    
Better get it, you better, better get straight babe


                                                                            
They're crying out for love all the time but they fail to see their 
neighbours eyes
                                                       
The TV is on 6 o'clock news the channel's in full colored lies
                                                              
The company meets, the President speaks he's young but his bones creak
                                                                   
Young girl dresses for the high school dance and the guy next door is dyin' 
for a peek


            
Get straight
                                              
You better, yeah, you better get straight babe
                                         
Oh did you get what I said, I said to you
                                   
That you, you better, you better get angry
                                   
You better, you better get straight



SOLO (32 bars)


                                                                        
They put a bible in the drawer of the motel room and it's crying out to be read
                                                                       
But it stays right there collecting dust, no one understands what's being said
                                                 
Lovers make love in comfy boxes, what will tomorrow bring
                                                                          
           
They've been told that it's wrong but they don't give a damn, soon another 
life it will bring


                             
You better get straight baby
                                     
Yeah you, you better get straight baby
                                               
Oh and I think I better get myself to get it babe
                                             
You know what I mean I been bent so very long
                          
I wanna fly right, I wanna do it alright

etc.


Bruce