...THE WORLD ISN'T FAIR... by Randy Newman
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*from 'Bad Love' (1999)*
Verse 1:
When Karl Marx were a boy, he took a hard look a-round.
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He saw people were starving all over the place,
While others were painting the town.
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The public spirited boy, became a public spirited man.
So he worked very hard, and he read every-thing,
Un-til he came up with a plan.
Bridge 1:
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There'll be no exploi-tation, of the worker or his kin.
No dis-crimi-nation, 'cos the colour of your skin.
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No more private proper-ty; it would not be allo-wed.
No one could rise too high, no once could sink too low,
Or go under com-pletely, like some we all know.
Verse 3:
If Marx were living to-day, He'd be rolling a-round in his grave.
And if I had him here, in my mansion on the hill,
I'd tell him a story; t'would give his old heart a chill.
It's something that happened to me.
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I'd say, Karl I recently stumbled, into a new fami-ly.
With two little children in school, where all little children should be.
I went to the orien-tation; all the young mommies were there.
Verse 4:
Karl, you never have seen such a glorious sight,
As these beautiful women, ar-rayed for the night.
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Just like Countesses, Empresses, movie stars and queens.
And they'd come there with mith men much like me;
Froggish men, un-pleasant to see.
Were you to kiss one, Karl; merry a prince would there be.
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See Karl, the world isn't fair; it isn't and never will be.
They tried out your plan; it brought misery in-stead.
If you'd seen how they worked it, you'd be glad you were dead.
Just like I'm glad I'm living in the land of the free,
In the land of the free,
Where the rich just get richer, and the poor you don't ever have to see.
It would de-press us, Karl, because we care...
That the world, still isn't...fair.
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