"World Series Game Three"

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"World Series Game Three" (Acoustic Demo)

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Is he a post-season pitcher or a pitcher with a good post season?
WIP claimed he was in too long but I'm sure Charlie had his reasons
The right teams are playing just the wrong one keeps on winning
While Fox relies on cheesesteak B-roll every fucking half inning

You can buy World Series like you can buy mayoralties
And when you tire of the taxes there you can buy in Broward County
After you go up two to one here you assume you got it made
But save some of that hot air for your Thanksgiving Parade

Remember Ray Rhodes equate losing at home to robbery and rape?
He said, "I don't like people breaking into my place
And sodomizing my wife and kids and loading their car with my stereo and TV
I don't like that and that's what this is like to me"

So sure, I guess all told at least it beats 1993
Fuck Joe Carter, fuck Curt Schilling
Fuck Tom Hanks, fuck Denzel, fuck Bruce Springsteen
And the tired way they symbolized a dying city . . .
Demme's pre-Rendell metaphor paved the way for Bruce's lazy songwriting

If you are the first one up try being useful, change some clocks
Turn back the cuckoo on the wall, it's another fucking fall
Lurk downstairs in your bare feet, watch cartoons there with your wife's niece
You still live with your in-laws, it's another fucking fall
Some places leaves drop from trees -- nothing to rake on this bare street
The wind outside is whipping raw, it's another fucking fall
Another season, another slide, winter waits on the other side
Defeat sticking in your craw, it's another fucking fall
If you are the first one up try being useful, change some clocks
Congress always fucks time up, Congress always fucks time up
Another season, another slide, winter waits on the other side
Defeat sticking in your craw, it's another fucking fall

Recorded November 14, 2009 direct to mp3 at home in Long Island City, Queens

Version recorded October 22-24, 2011 at home in Astoria, Queens