Carla Ulbrich: Songs

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This song is on "Leftovers."
WalMart sued my hometown (Clemson, SC) because they wanted to build in a neighborhood instead of a business district and we said "no." I stayed up all night writing these lyrics, and Bob wrote the music and gave me the word "Labotomy" (I asked him "what's something you'd never want to have?" That was his answer). We finished it 5 minutes before going on stage in Clemson.

12 miles to the East a Wal-Mart sets
12 miles to the North another one yet
12 miles to the South that’s right you bet
That's why I say we don’t need a Wal-Mart

We don’t need a Wal-Mart I’d rather have trees and grass
I’d rather have a hemherroid or an algebra class
They got no scruples They got no class
We don’t need a Wal Mart They can kiss my — butt

So we said hey Wal-Mart We don’t want you
We won’t rezone they said “Oh yeah we’ll sue”
So now we got 3 lawyers all getting their due
Thank you Wal-Mart, that’s mighty neighborly of you

We don’t need a Wal-Mart in our community
The best things in life aren’t cheap they’re free
We could do without the pleasure of this kind of company
We don’t need a Wal-Mart in this locality

A store so big you got to have a map
Aisles and aisles of cheap imported crap
It’s what some folks like to call progress
I call it proof that sometimes more is less

Don’t really have to think too hard
About whether I want one in my backyard
118 towns already said no
We’d also like to tell you where not to go

We don’t need a Wal-Mart We already got three
How many big-ass ugly grey buildings with a red stripe do we really need
I wish Sam was alive so he could hear me I’d say
I’d rather have a frontal lobotomy than a Wal-Mart in front of me