[ti:Buzzer] [ar:Dar Williams] [al:Promised Land] [by: ] [00:01.00]Dar Williams - Buzzer [00:02.00]LRC by lzh ,from jiangxi pingxiang [00:03.00]@ @ [00:04.00] [00:05.57]Sitting with the number eight platter at the restaurant, [00:09.50]Four twenty-nine for almost anything I want, [00:12.60]Add it up, it's cheaper than the stuff I make myself, [00:15.29]I get by, I never needed anybody's help, [00:18.88]And I tore out an ad and they told me that I [00:22.24]Would press the buzzer, press the buzzer, [00:24.76]At the graduate lab, they were doing some tests, [00:28.08]I pressed the buzzer, pressed the buzzer. [00:30.79] [00:31.58]Ride the circle off of the highway. [00:35.55]Spiral into the driveway, [00:38.20]In the maze of old prefabs [00:41.12]They'll be waiting at the lab. [00:48.83] [00:49.70]I don't know how everybody makes it through the daily drill, [00:53.01]Paint the nails, walk a dog, pay every bill, [00:56.36]I'm feeling sorry for this guy that I press to shock, [00:59.29]He gets the answers wrong, I have to up the watts [01:02.38]And he begged me to stop, but they told me to go, [01:05.77]I press the buzzer, I press the buzzer. [01:08.42]So get out of my head, just give me my line. [01:12.02]I press the buzzer, I press the buzzer. [01:14.40] [01:15.16]Ride the circle off of the highway, [01:19.40]Spiral into the driveway, [01:22.18]In the maze of old prefabs [01:25.20]They'll be waiting at the lab. [01:33.89] [01:36.50]They called me back to the lab to discuss the test, [01:40.21]I put my earrings on, found my heels, wore a dress. [01:43.23]Right away I knew, it was like I'd failed a quiz [01:46.31]The man said "Do you know what a fascist is?" [01:49.35]I said, "Yeah, it's when you do things you're not proud of, [01:52.40]But you're scraping by, taking orders from above." [01:55.55]I get it now, I'm the face, I'm the cause of war [01:58.59]We don't have to blame white-coated men anymore. [02:01.00] [02:01.70]When I knew it was wrong, I played it just like a game, [02:04.96]I pressed the buzzer, I pressed the buzzer, [02:07.94]Here's your seventy bucks, now everything's changed, [02:10.96]I press the buzzer, I press the buzzer [02:13.60]But tell me where are your stocks, would you do this again? [02:17.25]I press the buzzer, [02:19.81]And tell me who made your clothes, was it children or men? [02:23.50]I press the buzzer. [02:25.06] [02:25.94]Ride the circle off of the highway, [02:30.59]Spiral into the driveway, [02:33.58]In the maze of old prefabs [02:36.52]They'll be waiting at the lab. [02:46.44]