Dead Kennedy's Lyrics
Freshfruit For Rotting Vegetables
Chemical Warfare
Police Truck - Give Me Convience Or Give
Me Death
Tonight's the night that we got the truck
We're goin' downtown gonna beat up drunks
Your turn to drive I'll bring the beer
It's the late, late shift no one to fear
And ride, ride how we ride
We ride, lowride
It's roundup time where the good whores meet
Gonna drag one screaming off the street
And ride, ride how we ride
Got a black uniform and a silver badge
Playin' cops for real/playin' cops for pay
Let's ride, lowride
Pull down your dress here's a kick in the ass
Let's beat you blue 'til you shit in your pants
Don't move, child got a big black stick
There's six of us babe, so suck on my dick
And ride, ride how we ride
Let's ride, lowride
The left newspapers might whine a bit
But the guys at the station they don't give a shit
Dispatch calls "Are you doin' something wicked?"
"No siree, Jack, we're just givin' tickets"
As we ride, ride, how we ride
Let's ride, lowride
Too Drunk To Fuck - Give Me Convience Or
Give Me Death
Went to a party
I danced all night
I drank 16 beers
And I started up a fight
But now I am jaded
You're out of luck
I'm rolling down the stairs
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk, to fuck
I'm too drunk, too drunk, too drunk
To fuck
I like your stories
I love your gun
Shooting out truck tires
Sounds like loads and loads of fun
But in my room
Wish you were dead
You ball like the baby
In Eraserhead
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk, to fuck
It's all I need right now
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk, to fuck
I'm sick soft gooey and cold
Too drunk to fuck
I'm about to drop
My head's a mess
The only salvation is
I'll never see you again
You give me head
It makes it worse
Take out your fuckin' retainer
Put it in your purse
I'm too drunk to fuck
You're to drunk to fuck
Too drunk to fuck
It's all I need right now Oh baby
I'm melting like an ice cream bar
Oh baby
And now I got diarrhea
Too drunk to fuck
Yeah, Yeah
Yeah, Yeah
Yeah, Yeah
Oooohhh
California Uber Alles - Give Me Convience
Or Give Me Death
I am Governor Jerry Brown
My aura smiles
And never frowns
Soon I will be president
Carter power will soon go away
I will be Fuhrer one day
I will command all of you
Your kids will meditate in school
California Uber Alles
Uber Alles California
Zen fascists will control you
100% natural
You will jog for the master race
And always wear the happy face
Close your eyes, can't happen here
Big Bro' on white horse is near
The hippies won't come back you say
Mellow out or you will pay
California Uber Alles
Uber Alles California
Now it is 1984
Knock knock at your front door
It's the suede/denim secret police
They have come for your uncool neice
Come quitely to the camp
You'd look nice as a drawstring lamp
Don't you worry, it's only a shower
For your clothes here's a pretty flower
Die on organic poison gas
Serpent's egg's already hatched
You will crack, you little clown
When you mess with President Brown
California Uber Alles
Uber Alles California
The Man With The Dogs - Give Me Convience
Or Give Me Death
I am no one
But I'm well known
For I am the Man with the Dogs
I stare at you shopping
Watch while you're walking
Two dogs run around your toes
You turn around
Two eyes break you down
"Now, who does that guy think he's starin' at?"
Stop in your tracks
You're being laughed at
You armored ego is nude
And I do and I do
Crack up 'cos I'm getting to you
I see you I see you
And you're pretty self-conscious too
Down to your church
I'm looking for victims
Spell of the Man with the Dogs
I'll haunt you
And follow you to work
That ghost is back again
Creep into you
I won't go away
You're taking yourself too seriously
I smile as you frown
And turn to walk away
Your habits for all to see
I see a shrew
I see you
And the rodent things you do
You see you I see you
And you're pretty self-conscious too
And I'm gonna crack your mask
Yeah and I'm gonna laugh
Open wide
Saw you again
You'll see me tomorrow
Curse of the Man with the Dogs
You may not like me
You won't forget me
Not safe even in Walgreen's
They've seen me
Ask your friends
'Oh I know him'
Seen but I'm never heard
By your lot
A stare
Is worth a thousand biting phrases
See how stupid you are?
I dare you I dare you
To erase my laser tattoo
You see you you see you
And you're pretty self-conscious too
And I'm gonna crack your mask
Yeah, and I'm gonna laugh
What's inside?
Is it pubic hair
Is it cobweb air
I bet you just don't care
Insight - Give Me Convience Or Give Me
Death
Who's that kid in the back of the room
Who's that kid in the back of the room
He's setting all his papers on fire
He's setting all his papers on fire
Where did he get that crazy smile
Where did he get that crazy smile
We all think he's really weird
We all think he's really weird
We never talk to him
He never looks quite right
He laughs at us
We just beat him up
What he sees escapes our sight
We never see him with the girls
We never see him with the girls
He's talking to himself again
He's talking to himself again
Why doesn't he want tons of friends
Why doesn't he want tons of friends
Says he's bored when we hang around
Says he's bored when we hang around
We never talk to him
He never looks quite right
He laughs at us
We just beat him up
What he sees escapes our sight
We're all planning our careers
We're all planning our careers
We're all planning our careers
He says we're growing old
Life Sentence - Give Me Convience Or Give
Me Death
You used to be a partner in crime
Now you say you ain't got the time
Gotta get serious, gotta plan
Gotta pass those entrance exams
Oh my God
It's senior year
All you care about is your career
It's a Life Sentence
It's a Life Sentence
It's a Life Sentence
It's a Life Sentence
You're squelching your emotions
All you talk about is old times
You don't do what you want to
But you do the same thing everyday
No sense of humor
But such good manners
Now you're an adult
You're boring
It's a Life Sentence
It's a Life Sentence
It's a Life Sentence
It's a Life Sentence
The walls are closing in
You stayed too long in school
I'd rather stay a child
And keep my self-respect
If being an adult
Means being like you
Are you really you you you
You you you you you you
Are you really you?
No
You're a chained-up dog fenced in a yard
Don't see much, you can't go far
Pace and froth, you're getting sick
Run too fast and it'll snap your neck
You say you'll break out
But you never do
You're just another ant in the hill
That's your Life Sentence
Hop With The Jet Set - Bed Time For Democracy
I say, come on!
To pleasures unknown,
Where we fly to when we are all bored,
C'mon for the ride,
And hop with the jet set tonight
We'll sun ourselves red down in Montego Bay
Hotel-hired guards keep the nativs away
We wanna save the whales,
We'll go watch them feed,
Buzz around them in boats,
'Til they won't breed,
Just here for the ride,
Then we hop with the jet set tonight
We'll hire out some poachers to go steal their dolls.
Who cares if they're scared - they look awful cute
National Geographic found a stone age tribe,
Let's feed them their first hot dogs on flim,
Won't that be a prize,
To show the jet set tonight
"Aren't they cute, arent' they pure...",
Muse subscribers back home,
Next weekend the junta exterminates them
Back home by the the sea at our outdoors cafe,
Our chameleon tongues in the air.
Dear Abby - Bed Time For
Democrcy
Dear Abby,
Got a problem. I'm a decent, underpaid, hardworking
county coroner. It's important that my family eat meat at least
three times a week. But we just can't afford to with the prices
the way they are. So I bring home choice cuts from my autopsy subjects.
Just mix in the Tuna Helper, and ta-da!
Dear Abby,
Got a problem
The whole family things my new meals are delicious.
They ask me what's my secret. Abby, I think they're getting suspicious.
My smart-ass 8-year old keeps asking, "Where's all the meat? The red
dye #2 kind that's kept in the fridge."
If they find out the truth I don't think they'll
understand. Abby, what do I tell my Family?
DEAR REAGANOMICS VICTIM: Consult your clergyman.
Make sure the body's blessed and everything shoudl be just fine.
Just fine.
Rambozo The Clown - Bed
Time For Democracy
Got a deadly toy
To brainwash your boy
An egocentric musel thug
Kicks butt on screen like a brat outa hell
Bullshiter in the Indochina shop
Pull the string in his back, we win the war
That we never should have started at all
A cabbage patch terroist to call our own
Who rewrites history with a machine gun
Don't think about it - KILL IT!
That's what we teach you child
Rambozo
Rambozo
Rambozo the Clown
To draft-age kids
It sure looks like fun-
"Kill 'em all
And let God sort 'em out"
Like video games - no mess
Jus tfuel for a mass lapse of common sense
You can be Don Quixote
We'll dice you with our windmill blades
Brawn over brain
Means a happy ending
G.I. Joe in the cereal bowl
Grey sharpnel-flavored chewing gum
Mass murder ain't just painless
Now we've made it cute
Rambozo
Rambozo
Rambozo the Clown
War is sexy
War is fun
Iron Ego
Red Dawn
Be wolverine. You'll rule the hills
Just get some guns and Cheerios
Any kid can conquer Libya
Just steal a fighter plane
Look who came home in a wheelchair
V.A. Hospital, they don't care
"We're the machine
You're just a tool."
WHo fell for the myth of
Rambozo
Rambozo
Rambozo the Clown
Fleshdunce - Bed Time For
Democracy
We're world industries' thoughtlords
The entertainment wing
We keep you all in line
By fixing your free will
Surround you with pop fantasies
Just slightly out of reach
To soften the blows
Of your forced daily routine
We strip-mine your underground culture
Take the bite out and rinse it clen
Give ourselves credit for creating it
Then sell it back to you
At twice the price
Our pod of talent vampires
Has blown into your town
To dazzle, sign and milk you
All strictly on our own terms
You think you've go a lot to say
We'll change that real soon
You're not a person anymore
We've made you a cartoon
By the time we're through remolding you
You won't even recognize your face
There's no end to the eager beavers
Drawn like moths to our Babylon's mirage
Conveyer blet of flashdunce
Tehy all want to do the flesh dance
Conveyer blet of flashdunce
Tehy all want to do the flesh dance
The Great Wall - Bed Time
For Democracy
Great Wall of China
It's so big it's seen from outer space
Put there to keep starving neightbors
Locked outside the gates
What's changed today?
Empires hoard more then they need
And peasants threaten our comfort
We'll build a Great Wall around our power
Build a Great Wall around our power
Bankrupt L.A.'s streetcar line
So people pay more to drive
Plant strategic freeways
To divide neightborhoods by color lines
We'd rather pay for riot squads
Then pump your ghetto back to life
We let your schools decayon purpose
To build a Great Wall around our power
Another Great Wall around our power
Warlords in grey suits
Take a different route to work each day
Second-hand green berets
Form the companies' private armies.
We'll take all your gold
But won't teach reading or feed your poor
The League of Gentlemen
Would rather feed guns to puppet dictators
There's too many people in your world
And Refugees are expensive
When they trickle down onto our soil
We hunt them and arrest them
Classify them insane
And put them back on the next plane
To the waiting arms
Of the same death squads they fled
We've built a Great wall around our power
Worldwide Great Wall around our power
Economic Great Wall around our power
Give us your poor,
Your tired and your weak
We'll send 'em right back
To their certain death
Shrink - Bed Time For Democracy
If only people could shrink
Our world wouldn't be so overcrowded
Bring ourselves down to size
There'd be so much more food to go 'round
Why don't we build a machine
With all the know-how of the industries
We put a man on the moon
ON earth we'll need more room to breathe real soon
Oh........
Drink your vaccine and let's shrink
And bring your poodle so it doesn't eat us
The roads will be so wide
No traffic jams when we're half a foot tall
Bring what you need down here
We'll shrink it all by microwave
Don't wanna die like dinosaurs
We'll have enough resources to go round
Oh........
So now you've made the big shrink
Meanwhile we'll keep acting big
We well-bred beautiful people Who says we have
to go too?
Cops and Mason businessmen
Were exempted from the ovens
As if you weren't already.
The rest of you are all our termites now
Oh........
Triumph of The Swill -
Bed Time For Democracy
Life can only get better
All you nedd to do is fall in love
Everyone else has fun but you
Buy that fun you'll fit in too
Dance your problems away
Cheap escape to that mind-control beat
Mellow out - Life's too hard
You don't even want to think
See the macho cock-rock metal heros
Vomit fire out of their big mouths
Shake your fists obediently
Make Leni Riefensthal real proud
See the Aryan bozo with the red guitar
Parachute on the White House lawn
Gonna bomb the commies with his air guitar
Like Bing Crosby before them
Too idiotic to be real
You want it loud?
We'll make sure it goes nowwhere
So you won't get ideas
Triumph of the swill
Triumph of the swill
Triumph of the swill
Triumph of the swill
Music is banned in Khomeini's Iran
On the grounds that it stimulates the brain
We've done him one better in the land of coke and
honey
Using music to put people's brains to sleep
Ever wonder why commercial radio's so bad?
It's 'cause someone upstairs wants it that way
If the Doors or John Lennon were getting started
now
The Industry wouldn't sign 'em in a million years
So what do we get
Christian censorship and taxed blank tapes
Shoppers strung out on our false hopes
Will flock to obey
Triumph of the swill
Triumph of the swill
Triumph of the swill
Triumph of the swill
Macho Insecurity - Bed
Time For Democracy
Name one thing on earth lower than
a though guy
Who talks with his fists instead of using his head
Who bleats the shit out of anything it can't understand
Behind the muscle mask is a scared little boy
Called
Macho insecurity
Macho insecurity
Macho insecurity
'Cause you can't stand yourself
Got a bitch with me?
Why don't you say it to my face?
It's so easy to mouth off to others
Where's your proof?
Maybe we can talk if you'd just drop your act
Nothing's ever solved by making childish threats
That's
Macho insecurity
Macho insecurity
Macho insecurity
'Cause you can't stand yourself
Why do you want people to be so afraid of you
Why are you so scared of anything that's different
No one's ever there when you need friends
You wonder why
It's 'cause you take yourself so seriously
But being such a clown
Gives the rest of us the right to laugh
At your
Macho insecurity
Macho insecurity
Macho insecurity
'Cause you can't stand yourself
I Spy - Bed Time For Democracy
You look at me from the back of
the room
All i see is a bumbling buffoon
Head down like you didn't see much
Until you move in to your bust
I spy for you and me
I spy for you and me
Disguised like you're one of the scene
Just stand alone with no real friends
Scared people will find out who you are
Alone in the world without your telephone beeper
I spy for you and me
I spy for you and me
Curious folks ask you questions of life
But you can't answer cause your hearts like a knife
Still you feel like you sing the last song sung
You're just a heartless piece of scum with a gun
I spy for you and me
I spy for you and me
Cesspool In Eden - Bed
Time For Democracy
Poison is bubbling
Beneath your dream home
Buried there years before
Kid runs in crying
From playing in the garden
"Mommy, I burned my hands!"
"What's making our eyes so itcy?"
"Don' rub 'em - they'll swell up"
Oh...Oh Oh Oh
It's the big waste dump
Oh, yeah
We built your ticky-tacky houses
On landfill soil
To cover up a gift
We left you years before
Of toxic chemicals
And leaking gas
Just dig a little while,
You'll find our acid baths
Cesspools
In Eden
Oozing away
Groundwater's poisoned
Air stings like hell
The lines for doctors grow long
One-Way Ticket To Pluto
- Bed Time For Democracy
Countdown!
Get ready for the - Blastoff!
And don't forget the - Hype!
We're going into space
Distinguished scientists
A pesky senator
And monkey turds leaking from the lab
All brought to us play-by-play by Howard Cosell
You're going where no man has gone before
Don't ask us where that is
We have no idea
You're chosen for the great mission
Because we owe you some favors
And besides you're bright
A little too bright
Step one:
Senator, your vomit,
It's time to analyze it
For the folksback home
Open the hatch, lauch the war satellite
That the commies aren't supposed to know about
Our real challenge is to keep it a secret
From the press back home
You're going where no man has gone before
Don't ask us where that is - we have no idea
You're chosen for the great mission
Because you're heaty and stong
And make a lot of fuss
Especially around us
We like you better when you're far away
Have you - noticed?
You're going the wrong - direction
We have, but that's your - problem?
We planned it that way
We had to dispose of all of you so
We can spoil the final frontier
How dare you question our Star Wars plans
For th efarce that they are?
You're going where no man has gone before
For rocking the boat
In our temple of doom
You're on a one-way ticket to Pluto
We wash our hands
Of you and your lost Ark
Don't forget to write...
NO NO NO NO NO
NO.
Do The Slag - Bed Time For Democracy
Have you heard about the latest craze
That's sweepin' across the nation?
All the punks from coast to coast
Have discovered an old inveention:
"Your hair's too long
Man, you're a queer
You're too new wave
Put down that beer"
And
Do the Slag - Look at 'em run
Do the Slag - Hey you scum
Do the Slag - Ain't it fun
Do the Slag - Let's all be dumb
Badmouth people we don't know
Make sure it's behind thier backs
Don't let new people in our scene
It's more fun then having a friend
We'll slag everyone each and every night
Gone With My Wind - Bed Time For Democracy
Wake up! Get down here quick!
The president's had too much to drink
His days of power are about gone
He's been talking to paintings in the hall
He says, "I'm finished, so what the hell?
My life is ruined, what matters now?
I've always itched for that great thrill
If I die all of you should too"
Gone with my wind
Out with a bang
I'm gonna end it all right now
Gone with my wind
Out with a bang
You're coming with me, oh wow
My bombs will rain down on D.C.
We'll nuke our enemies while they're asleep
We'll be safe in the ground below
And laugh and drink 'til the cows come home
So c'mon, John, whadya say?
Iy's been dancing in my head for years
What'll happen if I push this button?
Let's start World War III for fun
Gone with my wind
Out with a bang
I'm gonna end it all right now
Gone with my wind
Out with a bang
You're coming with me, oh wow
My bombs will rain down on D.C.
We'll nuke our enemies while they're asleep
We'll be safe in the ground below
And laugh and drink 'til the cows come home
Mr. President, just sit down
We should talk a little while, I'll pour another round
What your memoirs' TV rights?
Sit tight-and watch the fire
Let go of me. Do you think I'm mad?
To tell the truth, sir, I'd rather not say
Just keep your paws inside your pockets
And planet earth will be OK.
But you reached for the button anyhow
I had no choice but to knock you out
That's just last night's bump on your head
On to the next crisis, it's another day
Gone with my wind
Out with a bang
I'm gonna end it all right now
Gone with my wind
Out with a bang
You're coming with me, oh wow
My bombs will rain down on D.C.
We'll nuke our enemies while they're asleep
We'll be safe in the ground below
And laugh and drink 'til the cows come home
Anarchy For Sale - Bed Time For Democracy
Step right up folks!
Anarchy for sale
T-shirts only 10 dollars
Badges only $3.50
I nicked the design, never asked the band
I never listend to them either
Buy! Buy! Buy! from Circle A
Like hula hoops, it's a disposable craze
Another fast-food fad to throw away
Get your Anarchy For Sale
Anarchy For Sale
Anarchy For Sale
Sheep unite!
Get your cuddly boots and studs
Be sure to rebel in proper style
Rebel along the paths we pick
Out of fear of peer pressure we create
Hey You! -
Get those flyers off my wall!
No commie peace shit in my boutique
No one here cares what that all means
Our Anarchy is For Sale
Anarchy For Sale
Anarchy For Sale
Our town sucks
Our scene rules
To belong you must buy into it
So we sold you metal spike braclets
C'monlet's see a good fight
That's Anarchy For Sale
Anarchy For Sale
Anarchy For Sale
The Stars And Stripes
of Corruption - Frankenchrist
Finally got to Washington in the middle of the
night
I couldn't wait
I headed straight for the Capitol Mall
My heart began to pound
Yahoo! It really exists
The American International Pictures logo
I looked up at the Capitol Building
Couldn't help but wonder why
I felt like saying "Hello, old friend"
Walked up the hill to touch it
Then I unzipped my pants
And pissed on it when nobody was looking
Like a great eternal Klansman
With his two flashing red eyes
Turn around he's always watching
The Washington monument pricks the sky
With flags like pubic hair ringed 'round the bottom
The symbols of our heritage
Lit up proudly in the night
Somehow fits to see the homeless people
Passed out on the lawn
So this is where it happens
The power games and bribes
All lobbying for a piece of ass
Of the stars and stripes of corruption
Makes me feel so ashamed
To be an American
When we're too stuck up to learn from our mistakes
Trying to start another Viet Nam
Like fiddling while Rome burns at home
The Boss says, "You're laid off. Blame the Japanese"
"America's back," alright
At the game it plays the worst
Strip mining the world like a slave plantation
No wonder others hate us
And the Hitlers we handpick
To bleed their people dry
For our evil empire
The drug we're fed
To make us like it
Is God and country with a band
People we know who should know better
Howl, "America rules. Let's go to war!"
Business scams are what's worth dying for
Are the Soviets our worst enemy?
We're destroying ourselves instead
Who cares about our civil rights
As long as I get paid?
The blind Me-Generation
Doesn't care if life's a lie
so easily used, so proud to enforce
The stars and stripes of corruption
Let's bring it all down!
Tell me who's the real patriots
The Archie Bunker slobs waving flags?
Or the people with the guts to work
For some real change
Rednecks and bombs don't make us strong
We loot the world, yet we can't even feed ourselves
Our real test of strength is caring
Not the toys of war we sell the world
Just carry on, thankful to be farmed like worms
Old glory for a blanket
As you suck on your thumbs
Real freedom scares you
'Cos it means responsibility
So you chicken out and threaten me
Saying, "Love it or leave it"
I'll get beat up if I criticize it
You say you'll fight to the death
To save your worthless flag
If you want a banana republic that bad
Why don't you go move to one
But what can just one of us do?
Against all that money and power
Trying to crush us into roaches?
We don't destroy society in a day
Until we change ourselves first
From the inside out
We can start by not lying so much
And treating other people like dirt
It's easy not to base our lives
On how much we can scam
And you know
It feels good to lift that monkey off our backs
I'm thankful I live in a place
Where I can say the things I do
Without being taken out and shot
So I'm guard against the goons
Trying to take my rights away
We've got to rise above the need for cops and laws
Let kids learn communication
Instead of schools pushing competition
How about more art and theater instead of sports?
People will always do drugs
Let's legalize them
Crime drops when the mob can't price them
Budget's in the red?
Let's tax religion
No one will do it for us
We'll just have to fix ourselves
Honesty ain't all that hard
Just put Rambo back inside your pants
Causing trouble for the system is much more fun
Thank you for the toilet paper
But your flag is meaningless to me
Look around, we're all people
Who needs countries anyway?
Our land I love it too
I think I love it more than you
I care enough to fight
The stars and stripes of corruption
Let's bring it all down!
If we don't try
If we just lie
If we can't find
A way to do it better than this
Who will?
This Could Be Anywhere - Frankenchrist
Cold concrete apartments
Rise up from wet black asphalt
Below them a few carcasses of the long gone age
of
Privacy it takes a scary kind of illness to design
a place like this for pay
Downtown's an endless generic mall
Of video games and fast food chains
One by one the little houses are bricked up and
condemned A subtle hint to move before the rats
move in
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
Those new kids at school seem cool
But dad says not to talk to them
Stick to your old friends they're not our kind
So now there's lots of fights
So many people i know come of age tense and bitter-
eyed Can't create so they just destroy
C'mon! let's set someone's dog on fire
Empty plastic culture slum suburbia is a war zone
now
Sprouting the kinds of gangs we thought we'd left
behind
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
Kids at school are taking sides
Along color and uniform lines
My dad's gone and bought a gun
He says he's fed up with crime in this town
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
I hope i'm gone before it explodes
I linger late at night waiting for the bus
No amount of neon jazz could hide the oozing vibes
of
Death my dad's a vigilante now he's bringing home
these weird-ass friends
Like the guy who fires blanks at his tv when kojak's
on
Or the guy who shows off his submachine gun to
his sixteen-year-old daughter's friends
Whose sense of pride and hope is being in the police
reserve
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
Everywhere
The Stars And Stripes
of Corruption - Frankenchrist
Finally got to Washington in the middle of the
night
I couldn't wait
I headed straight for the Capitol Mall
My heart began to pound
Yahoo! It really exists
The American International Pictures logo
I looked up at the Capitol Building
Couldn't help but wonder why
I felt like saying "Hello, old friend"
Walked up the hill to touch it
Then I unzipped my pants
And pissed on it when nobody was looking
Like a great eternal Klansman
With his two flashing red eyes
Turn around he's always watching
The Washington monument pricks the sky
With flags like pubic hair ringed 'round the bottom
The symbols of our heritage
Lit up proudly in the night
Somehow fits to see the homeless people
Passed out on the lawn
So this is where it happens
The power games and bribes
All lobbying for a piece of ass
Of the stars and stripes of corruption
Makes me feel so ashamed
To be an American
When we're too stuck up to learn from our mistakes
Trying to start another Viet Nam
Like fiddling while Rome burns at home
The Boss says, "You're laid off. Blame the Japanese"
"America's back," alright
At the game it plays the worst
Strip mining the world like a slave plantation
No wonder others hate us
And the Hitlers we handpick
To bleed their people dry
For our evil empire
The drug we're fed
To make us like it
Is God and country with a band
People we know who should know better
Howl, "America rules. Let's go to war!"
Business scams are what's worth dying for
Are the Soviets our worst enemy?
We're destroying ourselves instead
Who cares about our civil rights
As long as I get paid?
The blind Me-Generation
Doesn't care if life's a lie
so easily used, so proud to enforce
The stars and stripes of corruption
Let's bring it all down!
Tell me who's the real patriots
The Archie Bunker slobs waving flags?
Or the people with the guts to work
For some real change
Rednecks and bombs don't make us strong
We loot the world, yet we can't even feed ourselves
Our real test of strength is caring
Not the toys of war we sell the world
Just carry on, thankful to be farmed like worms
Old glory for a blanket
As you suck on your thumbs
Real freedom scares you
'Cos it means responsibility
So you chicken out and threaten me
Saying, "Love it or leave it"
I'll get beat up if I criticize it
You say you'll fight to the death
To save your worthless flag
If you want a banana republic that bad
Why don't you go move to one
But what can just one of us do?
Against all that money and power
Trying to crush us into roaches?
We don't destroy society in a day
Until we change ourselves first
From the inside out
We can start by not lying so much
And treating other people like dirt
It's easy not to base our lives
On how much we can scam
And you know
It feels good to lift that monkey off our backs
I'm thankful I live in a place
Where I can say the things I do
Without being taken out and shot
So I'm guard against the goons
Trying to take my rights away
We've got to rise above the need for cops and laws
Let kids learn communication
Instead of schools pushing competition
How about more art and theater instead of sports?
People will always do drugs
Let's legalize them
Crime drops when the mob can't price them
Budget's in the red?
Let's tax religion
No one will do it for us
We'll just have to fix ourselves
Honesty ain't all that hard
Just put Rambo back inside your pants
Causing trouble for the system is much more fun
Thank you for the toilet paper
But your flag is meaningless to me
Look around, we're all people
Who needs countries anyway?
Our land I love it too
I think I love it more than you
I care enough to fight
The stars and stripes of corruption
Let's bring it all down!
If we don't try
If we just lie
If we can't find
A way to do it better than this
Who will?
This Could Be Anywhere - Frankenchrist
Cold concrete apartments
Rise up from wet black asphalt
Below them a few carcasses of the long gone age
of
Privacy it takes a scary kind of illness to design
a place like this for pay
Downtown's an endless generic mall
Of video games and fast food chains
One by one the little houses are bricked up and
condemned A subtle hint to move before the rats
move in
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
Those new kids at school seem cool
But dad says not to talk to them
Stick to your old friends they're not our kind
So now there's lots of fights
So many people i know come of age tense and bitter-
eyed Can't create so they just destroy
C'mon! let's set someone's dog on fire
Empty plastic culture slum suburbia is a war zone
now
Sprouting the kinds of gangs we thought we'd left
behind
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
Kids at school are taking sides
Along color and uniform lines
My dad's gone and bought a gun
He says he's fed up with crime in this town
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
I hope i'm gone before it explodes
I linger late at night waiting for the bus
No amount of neon jazz could hide the oozing vibes
of
Death my dad's a vigilante now he's bringing home
these weird-ass friends
Like the guy who fires blanks at his tv when kojak's
on
Or the guy who shows off his submachine gun to
his sixteen-year-old daughter's friends
Whose sense of pride and hope is being in the police
reserve
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
Everywhere
Chemical Warfare - Freshfruit
For Rotting Vegetables
Down at the arsenal they keep
the nerve gasses
Guarded day and night by caged white rabbits
Been sitting there for years I'm gonna have at
it
I cut through the fence, run right in and grab
it
Go crazy crazy crazy crazy...
Now I got my own mustard gas in my pocket
Climb on a tree on a branch and drop it
On a country club full of saturday golfers
So I can watch them die chokin' shakin'in convulsions
Go crazy crazy crazy crazy crazy crazy crazy crazy...
Chemical Warfare Chemical Warfare Chemical Warfare
Warfare Warfare
Panic in the air see the headless chickens runnin'
Golf carts head on crashin' crackin' heads wide
open
Scratch the grass, mister, you can't breath
And roll and writhe in a sandtrap starting to heave
Claw those clubs, let me see you see
The crazy crazy crazy crazy crazy crazy
Chemical Warfare Chemical Warfare Chemical Warfare
Warfare Warfare
Yellow air
Yellow clouds
Blowin' down down down the fairway sensitive to
the
touch Mowin' down the putting green heading straight
for the big clubhouse where
The stuffed country club effervescent ladies, so
carefree
Relax, pose by the pool limber limp with a dry
martini
Until..
Chemical Warfare Chemical Warfare Chemical Warfare
Warfare Warfare
The Stars And Stripes
of Corruption - Frankenchrist
Finally got to Washington in the middle of the
night
I couldn't wait
I headed straight for the Capitol Mall
My heart began to pound
Yahoo! It really exists
The American International Pictures logo
I looked up at the Capitol Building
Couldn't help but wonder why
I felt like saying "Hello, old friend"
Walked up the hill to touch it
Then I unzipped my pants
And pissed on it when nobody was looking
Like a great eternal Klansman
With his two flashing red eyes
Turn around he's always watching
The Washington monument pricks the sky
With flags like pubic hair ringed 'round the bottom
The symbols of our heritage
Lit up proudly in the night
Somehow fits to see the homeless people
Passed out on the lawn
So this is where it happens
The power games and bribes
All lobbying for a piece of ass
Of the stars and stripes of corruption
Makes me feel so ashamed
To be an American
When we're too stuck up to learn from our mistakes
Trying to start another Viet Nam
Like fiddling while Rome burns at home
The Boss says, "You're laid off. Blame the Japanese"
"America's back," alright
At the game it plays the worst
Strip mining the world like a slave plantation
No wonder others hate us
And the Hitlers we handpick
To bleed their people dry
For our evil empire
The drug we're fed
To make us like it
Is God and country with a band
People we know who should know better
Howl, "America rules. Let's go to war!"
Business scams are what's worth dying for
Are the Soviets our worst enemy?
We're destroying ourselves instead
Who cares about our civil rights
As long as I get paid?
The blind Me-Generation
Doesn't care if life's a lie
so easily used, so proud to enforce
The stars and stripes of corruption
Let's bring it all down!
Tell me who's the real patriots
The Archie Bunker slobs waving flags?
Or the people with the guts to work
For some real change
Rednecks and bombs don't make us strong
We loot the world, yet we can't even feed ourselves
Our real test of strength is caring
Not the toys of war we sell the world
Just carry on, thankful to be farmed like worms
Old glory for a blanket
As you suck on your thumbs
Real freedom scares you
'Cos it means responsibility
So you chicken out and threaten me
Saying, "Love it or leave it"
I'll get beat up if I criticize it
You say you'll fight to the death
To save your worthless flag
If you want a banana republic that bad
Why don't you go move to one
But what can just one of us do?
Against all that money and power
Trying to crush us into roaches?
We don't destroy society in a day
Until we change ourselves first
From the inside out
We can start by not lying so much
And treating other people like dirt
It's easy not to base our lives
On how much we can scam
And you know
It feels good to lift that monkey off our backs
I'm thankful I live in a place
Where I can say the things I do
Without being taken out and shot
So I'm guard against the goons
Trying to take my rights away
We've got to rise above the need for cops and laws
Let kids learn communication
Instead of schools pushing competition
How about more art and theater instead of sports?
People will always do drugs
Let's legalize them
Crime drops when the mob can't price them
Budget's in the red?
Let's tax religion
No one will do it for us
We'll just have to fix ourselves
Honesty ain't all that hard
Just put Rambo back inside your pants
Causing trouble for the system is much more fun
Thank you for the toilet paper
But your flag is meaningless to me
Look around, we're all people
Who needs countries anyway?
Our land I love it too
I think I love it more than you
I care enough to fight
The stars and stripes of corruption
Let's bring it all down!
If we don't try
If we just lie
If we can't find
A way to do it better than this
Who will?
This Could Be Anywhere - Frankenchrist
Cold concrete apartments
Rise up from wet black asphalt
Below them a few carcasses of the long gone age
of
Privacy it takes a scary kind of illness to design
a place like this for pay
Downtown's an endless generic mall
Of video games and fast food chains
One by one the little houses are bricked up and
condemned A subtle hint to move before the rats
move in
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
Those new kids at school seem cool
But dad says not to talk to them
Stick to your old friends they're not our kind
So now there's lots of fights
So many people i know come of age tense and bitter-
eyed Can't create so they just destroy
C'mon! let's set someone's dog on fire
Empty plastic culture slum suburbia is a war zone
now
Sprouting the kinds of gangs we thought we'd left
behind
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
Kids at school are taking sides
Along color and uniform lines
My dad's gone and bought a gun
He says he's fed up with crime in this town
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
I hope i'm gone before it explodes
I linger late at night waiting for the bus
No amount of neon jazz could hide the oozing vibes
of
Death my dad's a vigilante now he's bringing home
these weird-ass friends
Like the guy who fires blanks at his tv when kojak's
on
Or the guy who shows off his submachine gun to
his sixteen-year-old daughter's friends
Whose sense of pride and hope is being in the police
reserve
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
Everywhere
© Punk Rock
Lyrics 2003
