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Evasive Answer (Music Box Dancer, Frank Mills, original lyrics)

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Frank Mills originally had a sharp political agenda when he wrote the popular song Music Box Dancer. He struggled with his producers to record a version with the sung lyrics, but eventually settled for an instrumental version that was not controversial.
 
Here are the original controversial lyrics and song title, which were found on a scrap of paper on the floor of a recording studio, and were thought to be lost, but were recently rediscovered...

Evasive Answer (Music Box Dancer, original lyrics)
 
...think I'll spend another billion...
...think I'll spend another billion...
...think I'll spend another billion...
...think I'll spend another billion...
 
I think it's so fun to spend big bucks that aren't mine,
I'll write two thousand pages using words that confine
The Bill becomes law and then the price you must pay
I work three days a week and then I fly home and stay
 
The congress isn't popular - the fault isn't mine,
You elected me and so it seems that it's fine
The deficit is large but-it's something you just can't see,
(Just) like the check (that you won't get) from Sosh Sec-ri-ty
 
The congress isn't popular - the fault isn't mine,
You elected me and so it seems that it's fine
The deficit is large but-it's something you just can't see,
(Just) like the check (that you won't get) from Sosh Sec-ri-ty
 

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