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choose from any number of magazines
who do you want to be?
billy idol or kool moe dee?

if you're afraid they might discover
your redneck past
there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past
they'll never send you home

roots!
the funny limbs that grow underground
that keep you from falling down
don't you think that you'll need them now?

just find a place where no one knows of
your redneck past
yeah, you can easily dispose of your redneck past
you'll show them all back home

désolé
je suis american
please cook my steak again
je suis american
désolé
je ne parle pas français

laws vary from state to state
getcha some books on tape
learn about holes in space

if you're afraid they might discover
your redneck past
there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past
it's good to be back home
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kevin On Apr 01, 2001
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Cover art for Your Redneck Past lyrics by Ben Folds Five

Everyone has some crappy psat experience they dont want anyone to find out. For him, its being a redneck. I dont know about you, but if I were a redneck, I would not want ANYONE to find out my past. But that's probably because Im from Indiana...

Cover art for Your Redneck Past lyrics by Ben Folds Five

this song is like an instruction manual for "army" if you listen to it. it leads into this on reinhold messner. its so funny, i love it.

Cover art for Your Redneck Past lyrics by Ben Folds Five

I really like the line about roots. It's a pretty clever pun, comparing social roots to plant roots. Both of which are necessary to survival.

Cover art for Your Redneck Past lyrics by Ben Folds Five

when you're someone already fake, low, plain full of shit, you might have to figure out ways to keep the ugly truth about you from stopping you in your tracks, to not get spotted those tend to run and hide, as long as they can, the redneck here aparently thought of an exile in France...

those lyrics express how easy so many can chose to become simple impostures, instead of honest human beings.

Cover art for Your Redneck Past lyrics by Ben Folds Five

This song is weird but so freakin cool at the same time.