MARIJUANA (The government wants to test me when I pee)
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Words and Music: Brian Robbins
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Well once upon a time in 1776,
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Thomas Jefferson signed his name on a piece of marijuana,
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and this document was a symbol of freedom and of liberty,
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at least for the rich, white gentry.
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As time marched along,
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this plant that I refer to has been used for everything,
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from medicine to the American flag.
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And now it seems to me
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that somewhere along the way,
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things got messed up, yeah, messed up.
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Oh marijuana.
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A gift of God to my brothers and me.
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Oh marijuana
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Now the government wants to test me when I pee.
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Well some say a conspiracy
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of the petro-chemical and pulp-paper industries combined
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ha to kill the compitition.
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Government hysteria,monopoly and conflict of interest,
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with total impunity.
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Yeah, so, if you don¡¯t buy the conspiracy,
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just look at the reality
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that your tax dollars go
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to spray poison on the fields of a farmer in South America.
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And as an added bonus,
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your neighbor might be the proud recipions of that poison weed.
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Oh marijuana
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now the government wants to test me when I pee.
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Oh marijuana
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a gift of god to my brothers and me.
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Oh marijuana
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you cant legislate your own morality.
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Oh marijuana
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the government wants to test me when I pee
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Reefer madness, chronic sadness,
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what is the half-life of bad propaganda?
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Policies fail, denied bail,
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you made him a demon now pay for his trip to prison.
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Hired to promote the status quo,
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but what is the shelf life of bad legislation.
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The hypocrite smirks, it¡¯s a moral disgrace
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as he reads from a law that was written
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about the same time that he had
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his last original thought.
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Well the men said he was dying,
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and the nausea and the pain left him wasting away
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and unable to keep a meal down.
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So he tried everything a prescription could obtain
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but to no avail.
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The side effects were worse than the pain.
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So now he breaks the law
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to use the one thing that seems to help him out.
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And the people say, Oh he's just getting¡¯ high.
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But not to change the subject but,
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didn¡¯t you ever wonder why getting¡¯ high¡¯s a crime,
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yeah a crime.
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Oh marijuana, a gift to god to my brothers and me.
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Oh marijuana, now the government wants to test me when I pee.
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Oh marijuana, the government wants to test me when I pee.
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Oh marijuana, the government wants to test me when I pee.
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Oh marijuana, the government wants to test me when I pee.
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Oh marijuana, this is the part when everyone would sing along aha,when I pee
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Marijuana
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Phish |