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Nothing is going to protect us from the human condition We can have fortune and fame Be on the top of our game We can be a rocker in Lost Wages We can be a woman with a small child Trying to do welfare to work We can dance the tango with a Friday night **** We can be busted for another dui We can be the head of the corporation We can even be Paul McCartney Michael Jordan Kennedy may be our name But nothing is going to protect us from the human condition I've gambled and won I've gambled and lost Millionaire wives die of cancer Joanie's Johnnie gets SARS Steve Jobs takes the last dive. A truck driver falls asleep A thirty seconds delay winds up catastrophe So sorry! Nothing protects us from the human condition There are mine fields all around us, most we don't even see We can be in Mosul We can be in Aleppo We can be in Somalia We can be in Mozambique One ember, a conflagration One breath of air, a hurricane One drop of rain, water everywhere Twisted Bill Cosby his son murdered while changing a tire Your name can be Whitney Houston mother and daughter have died Ronald Reagan's dementia he didn't remember a thing The list of the names it never really ends all that fame power and fortune All of the pain loss and suffering of me and you Bad moods ain't seen nothing yet There is no protection from the human condition You can set me up another one I'm drinking to "how it goes " I hide out I come out I'm probably like you I don't know what I'm supposed to do except find slices of delight when able There is no protection from the human condition.
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Dec 8, 2016
Dec 8, 2016 at 10:19 PM UTC
The Human Condition
Nothing is going to protect us from the human condition We can have fortune and fame Be on the top of our game We can be a rocker in Lost Wages We can be a woman with a small child Trying to do welfare to work We can dance the tango with a Friday night **** We can be busted for another dui We can be the head of the corporation We can even be Paul McCartney Michael Jordan Kennedy may be our name But nothing is going to protect us from the human condition I've gambled and won I've gambled and lost Millionaire wives die of cancer Joanie's Johnnie gets SARS Steve Jobs takes the last dive. A truck driver falls asleep A thirty seconds delay winds up catastrophe So sorry! Nothing protects us from the human condition There are mine fields all around us, most we don't even see We can be in Mosul We can be in Aleppo We can be in Somalia We can be in Mozambique One ember, a conflagration One breath of air, a hurricane One drop of rain, water everywhere Twisted Bill Cosby his son murdered while changing a tire Your name can be Whitney Houston mother and daughter have died Ronald Reagan's dementia he didn't remember a thing The list of the names it never really ends all that fame power and fortune All of the pain loss and suffering of me and you Bad moods ain't seen nothing yet There is no protection from the human condition You can set me up another one I'm drinking to "how it goes " I hide out I come out I'm probably like you I don't know what I'm supposed to do except find slices of delight when able There is no protection from the human condition.
Michael Jordan's father was killed at a rest stop. Paul McCartney's wife Linda died of cancer, she was 57.
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Dec 8, 2016
Dec 8, 2016 at 10:19 PM UTC
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