Earth

They say my lip gloss is cool
My lip gloss be popping
I’m standing at my locker
And all the boys keep stopping

They say my lip gloss is popping
My lip gloss is cool
All the boys keep jocking
They chase me after school

I don’t bother chasing mice around
I slink down the alley looking for a fight
Howling to the moonlight on a hot summer night
Singin’ the blues while the lady cats cry,
“Wild stray cat, you’re a real gone guy.”
I wish I could be as carefree and wild,
but I got cat class and I got cat style.

Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT now
Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees, please
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

Oh, the earth is callin’ out
I wanna learn what it’s all about
But everything I read,
“Global warming,” “going green”
I don’t know what all this means
But it seems to be saying

Wake up, America
We’re all in this together
It’s our home so let’s take care of it

In the struggle for parity, not one man’s voice can sound
’cause the foundation of the conglomerate is firmly in
    the ground
Yeah they wanna feed the world, but for power and for greed
Then they’ll cut off the supply until they get what they need

Well I hate to say the farmer was the last of a dying breed
Living off the land and taking what he needs
Don’t say much for the future when a family can’t survive
I hate to say the farmer was the last of his kind

There you stand in your wedding dress
You’re so beautiful that I must confess
I’m so proud you have chosen me
When a doctor is what you want to be

You know I want to be a painter, girl
A real artistic snob
But I guess we’ll have our children first
You’ll find a home, I’ll get a job

Sometimes I wonder, oh how can I go on?
But I know that the world you make inside your head
That’s the one you see around, that’s what I said
And the one you see
Is the one you make

Through all kinds of weather
We stick together
The same in the rain or sun
Two different faces
But in tight places
We think and we act as one
Those who’ve seen us
Know that nothing could come between us

You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant
You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant
Walk right in it’s around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant

Keep me around
My whole life long
And when I’m gone
Don’t you bury my bones
Keep me around
It’s not that I’m jealous
I’d just make a lovely stand for umbrellas
And you can toss your keys
In the caps of my knees
When you come back from town