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The Talkin' Headline Blues #170

from Music Vomit: 2016 by Andrew Francis

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The Talkin’ Headline Blues is a weekly series of recordings using unedited headlines from CNN.com written as a song. This week's topic: Rat Race.
Read more here: www.musicvomit.net/2016/05/02/rat-race-talkin-headline-blues-170/

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Historic U.S. cruise docks in Havana
Trump zeroes in on Indiana
Puerto Ricans leave at record rate
When America was 'great'
I read it all in just one day

Radiohead disappears from Internet
I was middle class. Now I'm homeless
Body of famed climber found in ice?
Obama drops the mic
I read it all before one hour flew by

Huge baby tips the scales
Official resigns over racist emails
Rodent destroys family's SUV
Making solar bikes sexy
I rad it all before one minute was complete

Draft pick's multimillion-dollar bong hit
Noah's ark replica set to sail Atlantic
Patrick Stewart, is that you?
'Sickouts' shut most Detroit schools
I read it all before one second was through

Well, 24 hours in a day ain't much
And after 60 minutes an hour's used up
The second hand don't take too long
To tick and tock 'til a minute's gone

So you gotta be sure you ain't a-wasting your time
Reading too many headlines
Cause chances are when a new day comes
You'll just be looking at a thousand more new ones

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from Music Vomit: 2016, released December 31, 2016

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Andrew Francis is a song-writing folk singer living and performing in the city of Chicago, located in the Midwestern United States.

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