John Prine Tribute EP

Some Humans Ain't Human

Some humans ain't human some people ain't kind
You open up their hearts and here's what you'll find
A few frozen pizzas some ice cubes with hair
A broken Popsicle you don't want to go there
Some humans ain't human though they walk like we do
They live and they breathe just to turn the old screw
They screw you when you're sleeping they try to screw you blind
Some humans ain't human some people ain't kind

You might go to church and sit down in a pew
Those humans who ain't human could be sitting right next to you
They talk about your family they talk about your clothes
When they don't know their own ass from their own elbows
Jealousy and stupidity don't equal harmony
Jealousy and stupidity don't equal harmony

Have you ever noticed when you're feeling really good
There's always a pigeon that'll come shit on your hood
Or you're feeling your freedom and the world's off your back
Some cowboy from Texas starts his own war in Iraq
Some humans ain't human some people ain't kind
They lie through their teeth with their head up their behind
You open up their hearts and here's what you'll find
Some humans ain't human some people ain't kind

Common Sense

You can't live together you can't live alone

Considering the weather my, how you've grown

From the men in the factories to the wild kangaroo

Like those birds of a feather they're gathering together and feeling exactly like you

They got mesmerized by lullabies and limbo danced in pairs please lock that door

It don't make much sense that common sense don't make no sense no more

Just between you and me it's like pulling when you ought to be shoving like a nun

With her head in the oven please don't tell me that this really wasn't nothing

One of these days one of these nights you'll take off your hat and they'll read you your rights

You'll wanna get high every time you feel low Queen Isabella stay away from that fella

He'll just get you into trouble, you know?

But they came here by boat and they came here by plane

They blistered their hands and they burned out their brain

All dreaming a dream that'll never come true

Don't give me no trouble or I'll call up my double

We'll play piggy-in-the-middle with you

You'll get mesmerized by alibis and limbo dance in pairs please lock that door

It don't make much sense that common sense don't make no sense no more

Quit Hollering At Me

I don't want your big French Fry I don't want your car

I don't want to buy no soap from no washed-up movie star

You are so much louder than the show I wanna hear with your sugarless gum

Gee, but I'm dumb non-alcoholic beer it's enough to make a grown man blow up his own TV

Quit hollering at me quit hollering at me

I heard you the first time I heard myself say

Seems like the little woman is getting bigger every day

You don't have to tell the neighbors a little silence ain't no sin

They already think my name is where in the hell you been?

Louder, louder, louder, louder, louder constantly

Quit hollering at me quit hollering at me

Sweet Serenity quit hollering at me quit hollering at me

Ain't it great at the end of the day when there ain't no sound around

Just me and the fence post staring each other down

Nothing but a big bunch of nothing driving me insane

Because there ain't no voice that's louder than the one inside my brain

You go on go on and let me be

Quit hollering at me quit hollering at me

Sweet Serenity quit hollering at me quit hollering at me

Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore

While digesting Reader's Digest in the back of a dirty book store,

A plastic flag, with gum on the back fell out on the floor.

Well, I picked it up and I ran outside slapped it on my windowshield,

And if I could see old Betsy Ross I'd tell her how good I feel.

But your flag decal won't get you into Heaven anymore.

They're already overcrowded from your dirty little war.

Now Jesus don't like killing no matter what the reason is for,

And your flag decal won't get you into Heaven anymore.

Well, I went to the bank this morning and the cashier he said to me,

If you join the Christmas club we'll give you ten of them flags for free

Well, I didn't mess around a bit I took him up on what he said.

And I stuck them stickers all over my car and one on my wife's forehead.

Well, I got my windowshield so filled with flags I couldn't see.

So, I ran the car upside a curb and right into a tree.

By the time they got a doctor down I was already dead.

And I'll never understand why the man standing in the Pearly Gates said

People Putting People Down

People who are sad sometimes they wear a frown

And people who are kings sometimes they wear a crown

But all the people who don't fit get the only fun they get

From people putting people down people putting people down

People without love sometimes build a fence around

The garden up above that makes the whole world go 'round

But all the people who don't fit get the only fun they get

From people putting people down people putting people down

So cold, sometimes it gets so cold

You may love your wife you may lose your family

You may lose your mind just to keep your sanity

But all the people who don't fit get the only fun they get

From people putting people down people putting people down

People that are glad sometimes they wear a smile

And people without dreams they walk the extra mile

But all the people who don't fit get the only fun they get

From people putting people down people putting people down

So cold, sometimes it gets so cold

Stick A Needle In My Eye

I'm awfully tired of the same old business kiss the babies, make them cry

I'm only looking for one good woman cross my heart and hope to die

Stick a needle in my eye

Got a load of mashed potatoes holding gravy like a fishing hole

I know something that might sound funny I got no money and my buddy's broke

I got no money and my buddy's broke

Counterculture, mother vulture Post Toasties and a quart of beer

I'm only looking for a place to go to somebody ask me what I'm doin' here?

Somebody ask me what I'm doin' here?

A boneless breast and a crispy thigh sitting at the bar and giving me the eye

Black crows on a garbage can what kind of fella do you think I am?

Stick a needle in my eye

I'm falling in with bad companions my mind is weak and my throat is dry

Thanksgiving in the Grand Canyon can't keep my fingers off that country pie

I'm awfully tired of the same old business kiss the babies, make them cry

I'm only looking for one good woman cross my heart and hope to die

Stick a needle in my eye