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Timmeh

from Optimist by Ben Franklin

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This is the first song that Billy and Eddie co-wrote, penning the lyrics together in one massive lyric-jam brain-spasm

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Timmeh! Geithner!
Where are my taxes?
Where are my taxes?
Where are my taxes partying tonight?

Are your investments paying off alright?
How is that viper with the yellow racing stripe?
Do you suggest I stop paying my tithe today?
Buy friends and land a job at the Treasury?
I don't know what I have to do or say

Timmeh! Geithner!

I betcha don't think I'll put up a fight, right?
Well I think I'll take it lying down
I think, I think I'll take it lying down
I'm not Biggie
I'm not ready, I'm not ready to die
Gun to my head
I'll pay and pay
Pay 'til I'm dead

I don't know what I have to do or say
I guess it's good your kids will have an easy way
And it won't matter because it's me who had to fucking pay

Don't mind him he's just the help
Larry Summers, you can go to Hell!
It's too much for you to understand
I guess you're right, I should just trust that man named

Timmeh! Geithner!

What am I workin' for you for?
What am I workin' for you for?
Is it your Summer home on the Jersey shore?
Does it pay for the help that cleans your floors?
What am I workin' for you for?
What am I workin' for you for?
Is it your Summer home in the Hampton hills?
Does it pay for your wife's four thousand dollar heels
What am I workin' for you for?
What am I workin' for you for?
What am I workin' for you for?
Who am I workin' for?

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from Optimist, released September 3, 2009

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