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Sun Green

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Sun Green

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Sun green started makin' waves

On the day her grandpa died

Speakin' out against anything

Unjust or packed with lies

She chained herself to a statue of an eagle

In the lobby of powerco

And started yellin' through a megaphone

"there's corruption on the highest floor"

Suits poured out of elevators "they're all dirty"

Phoneheads began to speak "you can't trust anybody"

But security couldn't get her down

She was welded to the eagle's beak

Sun green leaned into that megaphone

And said, "truth is all i seek"

Security brought in some blowtorches

News cameras recorded the speech

"when the city is plunged into darkness

By an unpredicted rolling blackout

The white house always blames the governor,

Sayin', 'the solution is to vote him out'"

On top of that great bronze eagle

Sun's voice was loud and clear

She said, "powerco is workin' with the white house

To paralyze our state with fear"

It was a golden moment golden moment

In the history of tv news

No one could explain it

It just got great reviews

"hey mr. clean, you're dirty now too

Hey mr. clean, you're dirty now too

Hey mr. clean, you're dirty now too

Hey mr. clean, you're dirty now too"

The imitators were playin'

Down at john lee's bar

When sun went down to see 'em

Someone followed her in a car

So now when she goes dancin'

She has to watch her back

The FBI just trashed her room

One of them kicked her cat

The damn thing scratched his leg

And he had to shoot it dead

And leave it lyin' in a puddle of blood

At the foot of sun green's bed

"hey mr. clean, you're dirty now too

Hey mr. clean, you're dirty now too

Hey mr. clean, you're dirty now too

Hey mr. clean, you're dirty now too"

John lee's was rockin'

The imitators drove it home

Sun was dancin' up a heatwave

For a while she was all alone...

When up walked a tall stranger

He shadowed her move to move

In perfect unison

A supernatural groove

He took her by the hand

And the room began to spin

He said, "i'm earth... earth brown

You know the shape i'm in

I'm leavin' tonight for alaska

And i want you to come in the spring

And be a goddess in the planet wars

Tryin' to save the livin' things"

"i'm ready to go right now,"

Sun green told earth brown

"let's go back to my place,

Pick up my cat and leave this town behind"

Hey mr. clean, you're dirty now too

Hey mr. clean, you're dirty now too

Hey mr. clean, you're dirty now too

Hey mr. clean, you're dirty now too

Next day sun green got busted for pot

And it made the headline news

But then the charges all got dropped

And the story got confused

She'd still like to meet julia butterfly

And see what remedy brings

And be a goddess in the planet wars

Tryin' to save the livin' things

But that might not be easy

Livin' on the run

Mother earth has many enemies

There's much work to be done

"hey mr. clean, you're dirty now too

Hey mr. clean, you're dirty now too

Hey mr. clean, you're dirty now too

Hey mr. clean, you're dirty now too"

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