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SHE'S BUYING
she's buying up towns, buying up homes
buying upstairs, buying up
she's buying up boats, buying up trains
buying up city hall
and you know darn well she bought Uncle Phil
she's sad in her eyes, feeling alone
buying the phone, she disconnects
what she collects, what she can have

she's buying up dad, buying up mom
buying my plants, buying up
she's buying a barn to hold reciepts
buying accounting firms
'cause she likes guys in matching ties
she's caught in a rut, no hope for hope
no chance of chance
caught in a bind, feeling alone
what does she have?

she's not very well
she won't give details

she's sailing her boat
she bought the lake
her big mistake nuclear..
plant on the far shore contaminate
her private lake, uh oh
and she's tuning green, her boat turning green
the sky above her head is turning red
fishes are dead
man on the shore
white hooded clothes
she calls for help

she's not looking well
she calls out for help

part of her want to be back in school
back in the arms of an army fool
intelligence leaks have found their way
of putting her in the lake today
she found it amusing, so it shows
to broadcast secrets from coast to coast
becoming a subject in a dossier
a dangerous risk to the U.S.A.

she's buying the nurse to keep her plugged
in life support - hospital..
rules: visitors look thru tiny ports
they only see her face
and her outcast eyes her sleeping mind

she's not looking well
she blinks for help
(c)Nov 20,1980 pub. Breet Music, BMI All rights reserved

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from SQUARES IN PAIRS 2021 .​.​.​.​36th anniversary edition, released May 15, 1986
Performed by TheRockin'Bricks:
Pete Tomlinson & Joe Hosey-guitars and backing vocals
Bill DiMartino- drums, crash-pas, maracas
Chris Breetveld- bass, piano, lead vocals. new strings and percussion
-Produced by John DeMarzo & the Rockin'Bricks 1983

-Recorded: Tower Studios -Engineers: Chris Cavallaro, Chris Breetveld
Restoration April 2020-BreetWorld Studios, West Orange NJ by CB

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The Breetles Princeton, New Jersey

The Breetles, an American power-pop band, are Chris Breetveld and anyone who plays Breetles songs, with or without him. They became one of the founding rocks of the "Kendall Park (New Jersey) Sound" starting around 1982. They have been described as the illegitimate flower-child of The Who, The Beatles, XTC, The Kinks, Mrs. Miller and Cheap Trick. Power-pop, cleverly-stupid, quiet is the new loud. ... more

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