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Artist: They Might Be Giants
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Can't Keep Johnny Down
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Can't Keep Johnny Down
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Outnumbered a million to one
All of the dicks in this dick town
Can't keep Johnny down
Men piled up in a towering mound
None of them once has found a way
To keep Johnny down
Spending days by myself
Remembering slights
I'm not a monument to justice
Plus which I don't forget a face
And they can't
Can't keep Johnny down
They haven't yet built the man
That'll keep old Johnny down
Some dude
Hitting golf balls on the moon
Bathroom in his pants
And he thinks he's better than me
I'm pointing a finger at my own face
They can't know what's in here
And they can't keep Johnny down
Beneath my dignity
To flip off the guy
When he pulls up alongside
To say my gas cap is unscrewed
And they can't
Can't keep Johnny down
They haven't yet built the man
That'll keep old Johnny down
And they don't
Don't know what I've seen
They can't know what's in here
And they can't keep Johnny down
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