What Have They Done To My Song, Ma (Live)

Look what they've done to my song, ma Look what they've done to my song Well, it's the only thing that I could do half right And it's turning out all wrong, ma Look what they've done to my song Look what they've done to my brain, ma Look what they've done to my brain Well, they picked it like a chicken bone And I think I'm half insane, ma Look what they've done to my song I think if they were going to make the movie of my life This would probably be the theme The irony of the petty folks This has turned into every kind of commercial, speaking of ironic Look what they've done to Ramada Look what they've done to my oatmeal Look what they've done to my lifeboy Lifeboy was a soap I don't know if you had Lifeboy, did you have it? I remember the ads in nineteen something And it said Lifeboy has hexachlorophene You know what hexachlorophene is? It's a deadly, horrible poison, but they find this out later, you know And they take Lifeboy off the market Now the new bad chemical is triclosan or tric-losan I think they have already removed it from all the shelves here But they are giving the United States two years Just two more years to make people deadly ill (Oh no) Yeah, well you know I'm roaming off like this and I'm thinking In my movie I haven't had, like you know Like an event to happen, you know That would make a big dramatic moment in the movie Like in this song I'll be singing Like you know like Loretta Lynn and coal miner's daughter, she just like looses it She's on the road, she's on the road, she can't think anymore She's doing all kinds of things to keep her awake And here she is in front of thousands and thousands of people And phew, because this is my movie and you are it! You are in the movie, you are thousands and thousands of people Yeah, and you're clapping, and you're happy and I'm happy And we are all on the stage, and there is some huge band And all of a sudden Melanie, who I thinks should be played by Holly Hunter I would be so perfect, she's got this perfect demonic smile I think, wouldn't she be a great role, I think so Any way So the movie, the movie end now Melanie is losing her mind on the stage in front of you thousands and thousands of people La da da da, Lifeboy, and they have poison in Lifeboy, so (Oh my God) And then it is like all silent and wierd And the fish-eye lens, you know, goes and focusses on Someone who is going "Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!" Oh, oh, oh! And the band is like And then somebody call out in the blackness Sid! 'Cause there is always a Sid Sid comes out on the stage and comes to get me I said, I'm okay Sid. Ehm, they are my friends, I'm just eh talking And telling them everything. I'M OKAY SID! Everybody, you know, got the wrong idea You know with brand new key that just got the wong idea It was, it was not about the cue, IT WAS ABOUT SEX! Okay, okay, I am going, and then, okay The film reads: 6 months later And I'm back, and you're so happy for me I'm back and I'm all better, and you're so happy! And you stand up and cheer! Up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up Because I'm all better! Thank you! I maybe, maybe I'll be all right Maybe, it'll all be okay Well, if the people are buying tears I'm goin' to be rich girl someday, ma Look what they've done to my song Yeah, yeah, yeah Look what they've done to my song, ma Look what they've done to my song Well, they tied it up in a plastic bag Turned it upside down, pa pa Look what they've done Well that's done to save the law mama Look what they've done to my (now right here, the credits are goin' to roll) I know you need a big finish To my Song, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah