Neil Young - Ordinary People Lyrics

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In a dusty town

A clock struck high noon

Two men stood face to face.

One wore black and one wore white

But of fear there wasn't a trace.

Two hundred years later

Two hot rods drag race

Through the very same place

And a half a million people

Moved in to pick up the pace.

A factory full of people

Makin' parts to go to outer space.

A train load of people

They were aimin' for another place.

Out of town people.

There's a man in the window

With a big cigar

Says everything's for sale.

The house and the boat

And the railroad car.

The owner's gotta go to jail.

He acquired these things

From a life of crime

Now he's selling them

To raise his bail.

He was rippin' off the people.

Sellin' guns to the underground.

Tryin' to help the people

Lose their ass

For a piece of ground.

Rippin' off the people.

Skimmin' the top when

There was no one around.

Tryin' to help the people.

He was dealing antiques

In a hardware store

But he sure had a lot to hide.

He had a backroom full

Of the guns of war

And a ton of ammunition besides.

Well he walked with a cane

Kept a bolt on the door

With five pit bulls inside.

Just a warning to the people

Who might try to break in at night.

Protection from the people

Selling safety

In the darkest night.

Tryin' to help the people.

Get the drugs

To the street all right.

Ordinary people.

Well it's hard to say

Where a man goes wrong

Might be here

And it might be there.

What starts out weak

Might get too strong

If you can't tell foul from fair.

But it's hard to judge

From an angry throng

Of hands stretched into the air.

The vigilante people.

Takin' law into their own hands.

Conscientious people.

Crackin' down on

The druglord's land.

Government people.

Confiscatin' all

The dealer's land.

Patch-of-ground people.

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Down at the factory

They're puttin' new windows in.

The vandals made a mess of things

And the homeless

Just walked right in.

Well they worked here once

And they live here now

But they might work here again

They're ordinary people.

And they're livin' in a nightmare.

Hard workin' people.

And they don't know

How they got there.

Ordinary people.

And they think that you don't care.

Hard workin' people.

Down on the assembly line

They keep puttin'

The same thing out.

But the people today

They just ain't buyin'.

Nobody can figure it out.

Well they try like hell

To build a quality end

They're workin' hard

Without a doubt

They're ordinary people.

And the dollar's

What it's all about.

Hard workin' people.

But the customers are walkin' out.

Lee Iacocca people.

Yeah they look

But they just don't buy.

Hard workin' people.

Two out of work models

And a fashion slave

Try to dance away

The Michelob night.

The bartender poured

Himself another drink

While two drunks sat

Watchin' the fight.

The champ went down

Then he got up again

And then he went out like a light.

He was fightin' for the people

But his timing wasn't right.

For Las Vegas people

Who came to see a Las Vegas fight.

High rollin' people

Takin' limos

Though the neon night.

Fightin' for the people.

And then a new Rolls Royce

And a company car

They went flyin' down the street.

Each one tryin'

To make it to the gate

Before employees manned the fleet.

The trucks full of products

For the modern home

Set to roll out into the street

Of downtown people

Tryin' to make their way to work.

Nose-to-the-stone people

Some are saints and

Some are jerks.

Hard workin' people

Stoppin' for a drink

On the way to work.

Alcoholic people

Yeah they're takin' it

One day one day at a time.

Out on the railroad track

They're cleanin' up number 9.

They're scrubbin' the boiler down

Well she really is lookin' fine.

Ah she's lookin' so good

They're gonna

Bring her back on line.

Ordinary people.

They're gonna bring

The good things back.

Nose-to-the stone people.

Put the business back on track.

Ordinary people

I got faith in the regular kind.

Hard workin' people.

Patch-of-ground people.

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