Hacking Dylan: A Parody

Kittie Phoenix
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2 min readMar 7, 2018

Author’s Note: This is based on the Dylan song “Everybody Must Get Stoned.” Hoping to vent my frustrations with the way the world is in a creative way.

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Well, they’ll hack ya when your firewall is good
They’ll hack ya since the feds said they could
They’ll hack ya when you’re tryin’ to go home
Then they’ll hack ya when you’re there all alone

But I would not act before the fact
Everybody must get hacked

Well, they’ll hack ya when you’re walkin’ in the bank
They’ll hack ya when you’re tryin’ to be so frank
They’ll hack ya when you’re walkin’ in a store
They’ll hack ya when you’re walkin’ thru the door

But I would not act before the fact
Everybody must get hacked

They’ll hack ya when you’re at the conf’rence table
They’ll hack ya when you’re strong and able
They’ll hack ya when you’re tryin’ to make a buck
They’ll hack ya and then they’ll say, “Good luck”

Tell ya what, I would not act before the fact
Everybody must get hacked

Well, they’ll hack you and say that it’s the end
Then they’ll hack you, then they’ll hack you once again
They’ll hack you when you’re driving in your car
They’ll hack you when you pretend to be a star

Yes, but I would not act before the fact
Everybody must get hacked

Well, they’ll hack you when you live all alone
They’ll hack you when you’re home so very stoned
They’ll hack you just to say you’re a red
They’ll hack you even when you’re very dead

But I would not act before the fact
Everybody must get hacked

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