Lyrics:

Mary Alice had a baby
And she looked just like I did
We got married on a Monday
And I been working ever since
Every week down at the Ford Plant
But now they're shutting down
Goddamned Reagan's in the White House
And nobody gives a damn
Double-digit unemployment
TVA is shutting soon
While over there in Huntsville
They puttin' people on the moon
So I took to runnin' numbers for the man I used to know
And I sell a few narcotics, and I sell a little blow
I ain't getting rich now, but I'm gettin' more than by
It's really tough to make a living, but a man still got to try
And if I died in Colbert County
Would it make the evening news?
They're too busy throwin' rockets
Puttin' people on the moon

Mary Alice, she quit askin' why I do the things I do
I ain't sayin' that she likes it, but what else I'm gonna do?
If I could solve the world's problems
I'd probably start with hers and mine
They can put a man on the moon
But I'm stuck down here just scraping by
Mary Alice got cancer, just like everybody here
It seems everyone I know is gettin' cancer every year
And we can't afford no insurance, I've been ten years unemployed
So she didn't get no chemo and our lives, they was destroyed
Nothin' really changes, cemetery gets more full
And over there in Huntsville, even NASA's shut down too

And now another fucking party says a change is comin' 'round
But I'm workin' at the Walmart, Mary Alice in the ground
And all them politicians, they're all lyin' sacks of shit
They say better day's upon us, but it's sucking left 'hind tit
And the preacher on the TV says it ain't too late for me
But I bet he's drivin' a Cadillac

And I wish I's still an outlaw, was a better way of life
I could clothe and feed my family
Still have time to love my pretty wife

And if you say I'm get it coming
Ain't you got better things to do?
Turning mountains into oceans
Putting people on the moon

Turning mountains into oceans
Putting people on the moon