Name: State of the World
Duration: P00H02M22S
Description: Ripped from the Headlines! Everything mentioned in this song is TRUE! Really Happened! I read it all in the newspapers (today, oh boy), and they wouldn’t print anything that’s not TRUE, would they?

State of the World

from State of the World by Joe Ray Realité

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Ripped from the Headlines! Everything mentioned in this song is TRUE! Really Happened! I read it all in the newspapers (today, oh boy), and they wouldn’t print anything that’s not TRUE, would they?

lyrics

Alien worshipers clone dead babies
a dog's thrown off a balcony
two strangers save a burning man
and cancer patients are arrested for getting high

CHORUS:
Such is the state of the world today
moving forward, moving backward
such is the state of the world today
world without end
such is the state of the world today
ever faster
such is the state of the world today
sliding into the future

Blue ice crashes through the roof of a building
four girls caught in cross fire in London
in Gainsville, a shrunken head collection for sale
and bigfoot's father is dead

CHORUS

Old ladies befriend robot dogs
a hit and run driver takes a dead pedestrian home
John Crighton's lost in space
me I'm sittin' here watching it all and gettin' high

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from State of the World, released January 1, 2006

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