The Other Side of Town
The grass is always greener
and the streets are so much cleaner
while the people seem much finer
on the other side of town.
And the women are so precious
in their finely woven garments
as they're searching for apartments
on the other side of town.
The men they are so literate,
reciting smart quotations
and reading all the latest books
on esoteric subjects
of economic substance
ensuring quick efficiency,
on the other side of town.
Well my friend he changed his politics,
'cause he's not sure of their religion
and he's seriously considering moving
to the other side of town.
And the doctors practice carefully
on new found forms of surgery
while their music sounds so easy
for the people waiting patiently
on the other side of town.
The place is full of tennis courts
with high school girls
in short white skirts
dancing to the rhythm
of the game they play so perfectly
courting clean white panties,
well it really makes me fancy
going down
to the other side of town.
And the traffic is much slower
'cause the people are contented
and they've no place else to go
since they're living in the best of places
founded deep in God's good graces
and they're constantly reminded
by his many homes of service
that populate the corners
more than gas and service stations,
that the air is so much cleaner
and purer
on the other side of town.
And the skies are so much bluer
so you'd think the place is warmer
but everything is evenly
homogenized and pasteurized
like cold vanilla ice cream
lying dormant on the sidewalk
where no-one likes to talk to people
they don’t know
or look a little different
from the normal people
living
on the other side of town.
And the more I think about it
the less I feel excited
and I've found a more enticing means
of dealing with the people
who believe in t.v. media,
sesame street
and bleeding hearts
and right wing militant patriarchs
and everything they feed us
like McDonalds whole wheat burgers
till there's nothing left but murderers
and rapists, thieves and litterers
that definitely don't belong
on the other side of town.
I'd get back on the rainbow,
for it is the only way that I know
that has any color left in it
and leads back to the places
where the grass is so much greener
and the streets are nicely cleaned up
routinely on a weekly basis
and take some nuclear devices
so that this side could also be
the other side of town.
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