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Citizen Contraire

from No Strings Attached by Those Darn Accordions

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Well, if you're at the movies and someone dumps their popcorn and soda on you from the balcony above and you can't catch 'em, you write a song about it.

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CITIZEN CONTRAIRE
©1989 P. ROGERS

THE OTHER NIGHT WHILE SITTING IN A SHOW
I RECEIVED UPON MY HEAD A NASTY BLOW
I LOOKED AROUND TO TRY AND FIND MY FOE
TURNED OUT TO BE SOMEBODY WE ALL KNOW

HE WAS UP THERE IN THE BALCONY
WAS LAUGHING QUITE HYSTERICALLY
AT ALL THE NASTY FOOD DEBRIS
NOW LYING IN MY HAIR
I RAN UP TO THE SECOND FLOOR
AND RUNNING THROUGH THE EXIT DOOR
I SAW WHO I WAS LOOKING FOR...........

CITIZEN .....CONTRAIRE!
CITIZEN .....CONTRAIRE!
CITIZEN .....CONTRAIRE!
CITIZEN .....CONTRAIRE!

HE'S THE ONE WHO'S SOCIALLY UNFIT
HE DRINKS TOO MUCH AND KNOWS NOT WHEN TO QUIT
THOUGH HE THINKS HE IS CLEVER WIT
HE NEVER SHOWS US MORE THAN HALF OF IT.

A STUMBLEBUM AND NE'RDOWELL
MAKING LIFE A LIVING HELL
IF HE'D TAKE THE BIG FAREWELL
WHO ON EARTH WOULD CARE?
A PENCILHEADED PEANUT BRAIN
TOO DUMB TO ACTUALLY BE INSANE
BORN TO GO AGAINST THE GRAIN
THE CITIZEN CONTRAIRE!

CHORUS

NOW THERE ARE THOSE WHO SAY WE SHOULD FORGIVE
THOUGH IT IS A WORTHLESS LIFE HE LIVES
BUT CAN YOU REHABILITATE THE MIND
OF SOMEONE OUT TO TORMENT ALL MANKIND?

THERE REALLY IS NO WAY TO COPE
WITH SUCH A NASTY MISANTHROPE
EXCEPT PERHAPS TO TAKE A ROPE
AND TIE HIM TO A CHAIR
THEN TAKE HIM TO A SHOPPING MALL
AND PUT HIM IN A LITTLE STALL
AND CHARGE A DIME TO THROW A BALL AT
CITIZEN CONTRAIRE!

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from No Strings Attached, released October 9, 1996

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San Francisco band Those Darn Accordions make the accordion do things it's never done before and have fun doing it.

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