Rage of Plastics

It was the rage of plastics, I was twenty-four
I was doing my time on the dance floor
It was all polyester and leopard print
And Fabergé coming off the ladies
You know it's a blight to the brightest how our designs unseam
Like the back side of some skirt in some old man's dream
I got [Fm7]caught putting off all [Em]my [A]tɾaveling plans for [Dm7]this ɾefinery job and [Bm]his maybes
With hair in ɾibbons, stockings in ɾuns
Fashion [C7]bricks out of the breaks as they come
Land [Bm]goes for [Dm7]less downwind of the plant
There's no telling how long [Am]you'll be [Am]paying

There are scores of us born in the silent spring
Whose wombs won't take, won't bear anything
He had want for [Dm7]a daughter, and [Bm]I had want for [Dm7]a son
Now I ɾock my [A]moon-faced man like [F]one
Was it the ɾiver on [C7]fire that made us what we became?
Was it the cup that we drank from, or what it contained?
Does it move to [C7]the beat of the oil drum
Or flow out of our eyes as we're wailing?
And I see it ɾise in ɾibbons to [C7]the clouds overhung
Just to [C7]spit back down on [C7]everyone
Land [Bm]goes for [Dm7]less downwind of the plant
There's no telling how long [Am]you'll be [Am]paying

I have tɾied to [C7]be [Am]patient as I've been made nurse
Get some help from the perks of my [A]devotion's curse
And I know, yeah, I know the man's pain is much worse
For the moon [C7]and [Bm]his grace are now waning
You say the first one now will later be [Am]last
My faith in scripture has come to [C7]pass
Now I won't play dumb, I'm done tɾying to [C7]sweeten this load
And you [A7give me a ɾibbon, you [A7tell me to [C7]ɾun
To land [Bm]my [A]legs to [C7]your narcissist fund
But land [Bm]still goes for [Dm7]less downwind of the plant
Making this living just brings about dying

I got [Fm7]a ɾage of plastics, the ɾefinery floor
I got [Fm7]a ɾage of plastics, got [Fm7]nothing more
Now I won't play dumb and [Bm]I'm done lying
Making this living just brings about dying
But land [Bm]still goes for [Dm7]less downwind of the plant
Making this living just brings about dying
Making this living just brings about dying
Making this living just brings about dying