Political Scientist

	Political Scientist
Author:	Ryan Adams
Official Appearance:	Love Is Hell, Volume 1 -- Ryan Adams
	Love Is Hell, Volumes 1 & 2 -- Ryan Adams
	Love Is Hell (Full CD) -- Ryan Adams
Unofficial Appearance:	Love Is Hell -- New York Sessions
Played Live:	01/18/04
Lyrics:	He is drinking water from the faucet from the river
	From the tributary it comes through rusted pipes
	Outside his window he sees the water that's supposed to be clean
	By the chemicals polluted by the candy factory lines
	Someplace on the edge of town
	Someplace on the edge of town
	Is where they live --
	Political scientists



	So now she is crawling on her hands and her knees
	She is dirtying her jeans choking on her own perfume
	With a pen she writes below the sink in someone’s restaurant
	This place is inconvenient for my name
	She forgets to write it anyway
	She forgets to write it anyway
	The government supplies the cocaine
	Political scientists
	There’s no guarantees
	There’s no guarantees
	There’s no guarantees



	Banging hard upon a crooked drum
	She feels them tearing down Salvation Army houses back in Michigan
	Her husband’s divorced but he treats her that way of course
	Because he needs her just like he needs medicine
	She forgets to write him anyway
	She forgets to write him anyway
	What’s red and white and nearly over
	Political scientist
	Political scientist
	Political scientist
	There’s no guarantees
	There’s no guarantees
	There’s no guarantees