J

Can't sit on my porch and smoke a J
 And remember how peaceful life can be
 But all night long are a bunch of pushers
 Selling drugs right there on my TV
 Drugs that whether or not I buy
 Are gonna end up in my water supply
 Along with who knows what else, who knows when
 Just gotta take a deep breath and drink it in
 And 'round here there's one thing people know
 It's that government ain't there for you, it's all for show
 And I'm trying to tell them it don't have to be so
 But I can understand that their confidence is low
 'Cause 'round here people're so high they can't see
 Over the tops of the tall pine trees
 Down to the mouth of the Mississippi
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 Oh, blood ignited in a blighted sky
 Oh, blood on the water like we all could die
 Blood in the reeds glistening in the sun
 Blood on our hands, each and everyone
 Here in the calm before the wars
 When the earth shrugs us off like dinosaurs
 Here in the sunset days of yore
 The first signs washing ashore
 And goddess
 Come and lift us her in deepest Louisiana
 In the gut, where hunches come from
 A message goes out loud as it can
 And you'd have thought
 We'd have come more far somehow
 Since the changing of the guard and all
 I mean dude could be FDR right now
 And instead he's just shifting his weight
 And the disappointment is the knockout blow
 Filmed in torturous slow-mo
 Oh hope, please come where I can see
 Don't let the poison get the best of me
 And goddess
 Come and lift us here in deepest Louisiana
 In the gut, where hunches come from
 A message goes out loud as it can
 Of truth is for telling, truth is foretold
 Truth is for those with the guts to behold
 We got vampires down here in Louisiana
 We need voodoo dolls, we need talisman
 We need wooden stakes and shards of light
 We need harbingers riding through the night
 We need fountain pens, we need whale harpoons
 To overthrow the oil tycoons
 Cause there's no fish in the water, no birds in the sky
 No life in the soil, no end to the lie
 No time like the present and it's passing us by
 But it's never too late, never too late to try
 'Cause if we all had to change we all just would
 And we would move closer and that would be good
 And we would buy local and we would buy less
 And we'd realize that wasn't our happiness
 No, that wasn't our happiness
 No, that wasn't our happiness
 No, that wasn't our happiness
 No, that wasn't
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 And goddess
 Come and lift us here in deepest Louisiana
 And goddess
 Come and lift us here in deepest Louisiana
 And goddess
 Come and lift us here in deepest Louisiana
 In the gut, where hunches come from
 A message goes out loud as it can