Best Song Parody (exhibition) - LYRICS:
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Amputee (to Refugee by Tom
Petty)
By Ron Low
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We got something we can grow, yet
We don't talk too much about it
Most keep it secret, sure it’s private,
Still I wish we all could just shout it | We got something we both know it,
We don't talk too much about it
Ain't no real big secret, all the same,
Somehow we get around it |
‘Cause listen, human rights matter to me
Babies could be spared if you’d speak your beliefs
And say, you don't have to live like an amputee | Listen, it don't really matter to me
Baby, you believe what you wanna believe
You see, you don't have to live like a refugee |
Somewhere right now somebody must be
Fixing to cut someone
Tell me how that baby laying there,
Can feel anything but abandoned
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Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have
Kicked you around some
Tell me why you wanna lay there,
Revel in your abandon |
Maybe, if the parents saw what’s slung to your knee
They would take the patient home and pocket the fee
And he would not have to live like an amputee
No he would not have to live like an amputee | Honey, it don't make no difference to me
Baby, everybody's had to fight to be free
You see, you don't have to live like a refugee
No baby, you don't have to live like a refugee |
When babies come out head first
All they need is to be loved and to be nursed
His body don’t belong to you
Don’t do unto him what he never can undo |
Baby, we ain't the first
I'm sure a lot of other lovers been burned
Right now this ain't real to you
It's one of those things you got to feel to be true |
So now, somehow, your body’s gonna
Grow you a new one
Take control, tugging sure beats being
Strapped-down, mutilated, and left to cry some |
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have
Kicked you around some
Who knows, maybe you were kidnapped,
Tied-up, taken away, and held for ransom |
So shout it, this is why it matters to me
People, circumcision’s gonna harm your Baby,
So please, he doesn't have to live like an amputee
No, you don't have to live like an amputee
Baby, you don't have to live like an amputee |
Honey, it don't really matter to me
Baby, everybody's had to fight to be free
You see, you don't have to live like a refugee
No, you don't have to live like a refugee
Baby, you don't have to live like a refugee |
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