Drive-By Truckers – What It Means (Guitar Solo)

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He was running down the street

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When they shot him in his tracks

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About the only thing agreed upon

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Is he ain't coming back

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There won't be any trial

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So the air it won't be cleared

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There's just two sides calling names

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Out of anger out of fear

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If you say it wasn't racial

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When they shot him in his tracks

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Well I guess that means that you ain't black

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It means that you ain't black

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I mean Barack Obama won

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And you can choose where to eat

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But you don't see too many white kids lying

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Bleeding on the street

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In some town in Missouri

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But it could be anywhere 

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It could be right here on Ruth Street

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In fact it's happened here

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And it happened where you're sitting

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Wherever that might be

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And it happened last weekend

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And it will happen again next week

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And when they turned him over

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They were surprised there was no gun

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I mean he must have done something

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Or else why would he have run

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And they'll spin it for the anchors

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On the television screen

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So we can shrug and let it happen

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Without asking what it means

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What it means?

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What it means?

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Then I guess there was protesting

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And some looting in some stores

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And someone was reminded that

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They ain't called colored folks no more

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I mean we try to be politically

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Correct when we call names

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But what's the point of post-racial

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When old prejudice remains?

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And that guy who killed that kid

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Down in Florida standing ground

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Is free to beat up on his girlfriend

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And wave his brand new gun around

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While some kid is dead and buried

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And laying in the ground

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With a pocket full of skittles

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What it means?

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What it means?

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Astrophysics at our fingertips

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And we're standing at the summit

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And some man with a joystick

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Lands a rocket on a comet

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We're living in an age

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Where limitations are forgotten

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The outer edges move and dazzle us

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But the core is something rotten

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And we're standing on the precipice

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Of prejudice and fear

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We trust science just as long

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As it tells us what we want to hear

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We want our truths all fair and balanced

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As long as our notions lie within it

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There's no sunlight in our asses

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And our heads are stuck up in it

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And our heroes may be rapists

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Who watch us while we dream

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But don't look to me for answers

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Cuz I don't know what it means

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What it means?

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What it means?