I Don't Want to Be a Number

from MADE IN SPOKANE 1978-1981 by Sweet Madness

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I Don’t Want to Be a Number

Take a lie detector test when you want to cash a check
It’s for your own protection, sir
Smile at the camera at the Supermarket
Don’t trip the alarm at the door

I don’t want to be a number
Please don’t fold or mutilate
I don’t want to be inside computer memory banks

What was that beep on the telephone?
Please don’t get too upset
Why did my mother’s letter take three weeks to get here?
Why would someone want the mail?

I don’t want to be a number
Please don’t fold or mutilate
I don’t want to be inside computer memory banks

When you’re looking for a job
They’re looking at you funny
Why do they look that way?
They must think that I’m really flakey
Why do they want his fingerprints anyway?

Stand in the line and please no talking
The government’s too busy to listen
Fill out every blank and sign it on the bottom
We don’t want to see an omission

I don’t want to be a number
Please don’t fold or mutilate
I don’t want to be inside computer memory
I don’t want to be a number
Please don’t fold or mutilate
I don’t want to be inside computer memory banks

(John Robison)

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from MADE IN SPOKANE 1978-1981, track released January 18, 2013
Recorded at Womach Studios in Spokane January 1981 produced by Bob Zat and Sweet Madness.
Mastered at Winchester Staircase studios

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