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Dead Kennedys
Frankenchrist
"We're sorry but you're no longer needed
Or wanted or even cared about here,
Machines can do a better job than you.
This is what you get for asking questions.
The unions agree sacrifices must be made
Computers never go on strike
To save the working man you've got to put him out to pasture
Looks like we'll have to let you go
Doesn't it feel fulfilling to know
That you - the human being - are now obsolete
And there's nothing in hell we'll let you do about it"
Soup is good food - We don't need you any more
You make a good meal - We don't need you any more
Now how do you feel - We don't need you any more
To be shit out our ass
And thrown in the cold like a piece of trash
"
We're sorry you'll just have to leave
Unemployment runs out after just six weeks
How does it feel to be a budget cut
You're snipped, you no longer exist
Your number's been purged from our central computer
So we can rig the facts and sweep you under the rug
See our chart? Unemployment's going down
If that ruins your life that's your problem"
Soup is good food - We don't need you any more
You make a good meal - We don't need you any more
Now how do you feel - We don't need you any more
To be shit out our ass
And thrown in the cold
"We're sorry we hate to interrupt
But it's against the law to jump off this bridge
You'll just have to kill yourself somewhere else
A tourist might see you and we wouldn't want that
I'm just doing my job, you know, so say uncle
And we'll take you to the mental health zoo
Force feed you mind-melting chemicals
Til even the outside world looks great"
In hi-tech science research labs
It costs too much to bury all the dead
The mutilated disease-injected
Surplus rats who can't be used anymore
So they're dumped - with no minister present
In a spiraling corkscrew dispose-all unit
Ground into sludge and flushed away
Aw gezz!
We don't need you any more - We don't need you any more
Soup is good food - We don't need you any more
You make a good meal - We don't need you any more
Now how do you feel - We don't need you any more
To be shit out our ass
And thrown in the cold like a piece of trash
We know how much you'd like to die - We don't need you any more
We joke about it on our coffee breaks - We don't need you any more
But we're paid to force you to have a nice day - We don't need you any more
In the wonderful world we made just for you - We don't need you any more
Poor Rats... we human rodents chuckle
At least we get a dignified cremation
At yet, at 6:00 tomorrow morning
It's time to get up and go to work
Hellnation's when they teach us profiting from greed
Hellnation's what they give us coke, heroin & speed
Hellnation's when they tell you you gotta go clean up your act
You're the one who dragged me here and now you drag me back
To this Hellnation - Hellnation - Hellnation - Hellnation
Problem is few care
About the people in despair
If you help no one
You're guilty in the Hellnation
Hellnation's when the president asks for four more fucking years
Hellnation's when he gets it by conning poor people and peers
Hellnation - got no choice. What's the point of trying to vote?
When this country makes war, we all die in the same boat
In this Hellnation - Hellnation - Hellnation - Hellnation
Problem is few care
About the people in despair
If you help no one
You're guilty in the Hellnation
Problem is few care
About the people in despair
If you help no one
You're guilty in the Hellnation
It's the only world we've got
Let's protect it while we can
It's all there is and there ain't no more
Hellnation - asking please for a nuclear freeze
So the unborn kids get their chance to live and breathe
Hellnation - asking aid for the minimum wage
So the kids of tomorrow don't wind up slaves to their trade
In the Hellnation - Hellnation - Hellnation - Hellnation
Problem is few care
About the people in despair
If you help no one
You're guilty in the Hellnation
This Could Be Anywhere (This Could Be Everywhere)
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 - Could be anywhere
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
Could be anywhere
Everywhere
Could be anywhere
Could be everywhere
Could be anywhere
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 the crime in this town
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
This could be anywhere - Anywhere
This could be everywhere - Anywhere
This could be anywhere - 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 T.V. 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
Could be anywhere
Could be everywhere
Everywhere
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
Everywhere
In lonely gas stations with mini-marts you'll find rows of them for sale
Liquor-filled statues of Elvis Presley screw is head off and drink like a vampire
His disciples flock to such a fitting shrine sprawled across from his graceless mansion
A shopping mall filled with prayer rugs and Elvis dolls
And I wonder
Yeah! I wonder
Will Elvis take the place of Jesus in a thousand years
Religious wars
Barbaric laws
Bloodshed worldwide Over what's left of his myth
A growing boy needs his lunch
A growing boy needs his lunch
When pesticides get banned we're safe up north we just sell them to those other countries
Soon there's lots of exotic deformed babies, somehow that's not our fault
Just dip 'em in glaze paint 'em orange and green for the Arizona roadside stands
To sell alongside plaster burros and birthbaths
And I wonder
Yeah! I wonder
Why so many insects around us feed off the dead
Death squads
Starvation
Foreign aid? Just leave it to the magic of the marketplace
A growing boy needs his lunch
A growing boy needs his lunch
Everyone should just love each other - Dip your toe into the fire
Drop your guns and lawsuits and love each other - Life begins beyond the bunker
And while you're busy hugging in the streets - Outgrowing your hatred for all to feel
Jiminy Cricket's found a game to play
Stick your neck out and trust - It'll be chopped away
Jimmy through your locked front doors
Rifle through your sacred drawers
Line my pockets, deface your dreams
Til the cows come home to me, to me
Nibbling like an earwig winding through your brain
Bound like Lawrence Harvey spreadeagle to a bed
The migraine gets worse when we find out we lay eggs
And no one in all of Borneo can hear you scream, scream
A growing boy needs his lunch
A growing boy needs his lunch
A growing boy needs his lunch
Turn on!
Tune in!
Cop out!
Drop! Kick! Turn in! Tune out!
Another rainy morning mingling at the market
Bartering for food for another day
Rifle shots ring out behind the crumbling buildings
Executions have begun
Sprawled in the square are today's broken bodies
Lots to pick clean if you're first and quick
Riffle through their pockets, peel off their clothes
To wear or sell when you wash out the blood
Run my little brother
Run to the chicken farm
Opportunity's calling
You might even find a watch
We're going down, to the chicken farm
We're going down, to the chicken farm
We're going down, to the chicken farm
We're going down, to the chicken farm
Napalm rains no more but the war goes on
Little brother died playing at the dump today
He found a new toy and held it up proud
Then it blew him to bits
How many more children
Will be killed or die at birth
Deformed by Agent Orange
In our food chain forever more
We're going down, to the chicken farm
We're going down, to the chicken farm
We're going down, to the chicken farm
We're going down, to the chicken farm
This time we'll buy our way out
I've got a plan, you wait and see
I smuggled you this map
In the gash I sliced in my thigh
I hope I'm there to join you, love
We're blown to piece one by one in this camp
We crawl shaking through the fields at gunpoint all day
To defuse leftover landmines - by hand, hand, hand
We shiver on the deck and stiffen for the worst
If the pirates come around we might as well be dead
We'll be thrown in the sea or butchered if we're women
All in the name of gold
One foot in a land we can barely understand
Can't speak the tongue of Yankee hospitality
Our kids at school get beat up
To the tune of "Boat people, go home!"
Sliced with a machete
From the breast of our homeland
Our new world tries to spit us out
But it sure beats the chicken farm
We're going down, to the chicken farm
We're going down, to the chicken farm
We're going down, to the chicken farm
We're going down, to the chicken farm
Jock-O-Rama (Invasion of the Beef Patrol)
You really like gorillas?
We've got just the pet for you
It's the way you're forced to act
To survive our schools
Make your whole life revolve around sports
Walk tough - don't act too smart
Be a mean machine
Then we'll let you get ahead
Jock-O-Rama--Save my soul
We're under the thumb of the Beef Patrol
The future of America is in their hands
Watch it roll over Niagara Falls
Pep rally in the holy temple
And you're forced to go
Masturbate en masse
With the favored religious cult
Cheerleaders yell - "Ra Ra Team"
From the locker room parades the prime beef
When archaeologists dig this up
They'll either laugh or cry
Jock-O-Rama - On the brain
Redneck-a-thon driving me insane
The future of America is in their hands
Watch it roll over Niagara Falls
Unzip that old-time religion
On the almighty football field
Beerbellies of all ages
Come to watch the gladiators bleed
"Now boys, this game ain't played for fun
You're going out there to win
How d'ya win? Get out there
And snap the other guy's knee!"
Beat 'em up! Beat 'em up!
Ra Ra Ra
Snap those spinal cords
Ha! Ha! Ha!
Beat 'em up! Beat 'em up!
Ra Ra Ra
Snap those spinal cords
Ha! Ha! Ha!
The star quarterback lies injured
Unconscious on the football field
Looks like his neck's been broken
Seems to happen somewhere every year
His mom and dad clutch themselves and cry
Their favorite son will never walk again
Coach says, "That boy gave a hundred percent
What spirit! What a man!"
But who cares?
Game's over! - Let's go get wasted man
To the 7-11! To the liquor store!
Let's party all night and party some more
Another Trans-Am Wrapped itself around a telephone pole
"I ain't drunk, officer, I just fell gettin' out of my car"
"Don't worry about it, son, we were that way when we were young
You've got all the skills to make a damn good businessman"
What's the point?
Jock-O-Rama--Save my soul
We're under the thumb of the Beef Patrol
The future of America is in their hands
Watch it roll over Niagara Falls
Jock-O-Rama - that's the law
Come lick the butts of the Beef Patrol
If the future of America is handed to them
Watch it roll over Niagara Falls
Happy hour belongs to America's best-loved thugs
Here comes the 4-wheel-drive prosthetic penises
Got yer gun racks, tractor tires and lynch mob drivers
We couldn't find a chick to sit in the middle
So we drink ourselves sick
Lean out the windows and pinch ass instead
We are the Goons of Hazzard
Glorified on your T.V.
We run down bikes and hitch hikers
Cos we know we'll get off scot-free
We're the vigilante heroes of your tough-guy flicks
Bashing punks & bums and fags with our baseball bats
No deer to blow away, if it works today
So we go to Oroville and shoot a black kid down
Or waste demonstrators in Greensboro instead
We are the Goons of Hazzard
Glorified on your T.V.
We leave you in a pool of blood
Cos we know we'll get off scot-free
Let's get him! Get him!
C'mere! C'mere
Say something to me?
We've got him cornered
We've got him cornered
Is anybody looking?
Does anybody even care?
No!
Local papers paint us up to be big heroes
City fathers & Chambers of Commerce want us deputized
The stoner gestapo keepin' your town clean
Get a shave, kid, we'll pay you as the strike-breaker
Maybe you'll make Tac Squad for the L.A.P.D.
We are the Goons of Hazzard
Glorified on your T.V.
We leave you in a pool of blood
Cos we always get off scot-free
Free! Scot-free! scot-free!
We always get off
We always get off
We always get off free!
Fun, Fun, Fun, in the fluffy chair
Flame up the herb
Woof down the beer, etc
"Hi! I'm your video DJ
I always talk like I'm wigged out on quaaludes
I wear a satin baseball jacket everywhere I go
My job is to help destroy
What's left of your imagination
By feeding you endless doses
Of sugar-coated mindless garbage
So don't create, Be sedate
Be a vegetable at home
And thwack on that dial
If we have our way even you will believe
This is the future of rock and roll"
How far will you go
How low will you stoop
To tranquilize our minds with your sugar-coated swill
You've turned rock and roll rebellion
Into Pat Boone sedation
Making sure nothing's left to the imagination
M.T.V. - Get off the
M.T.V. - Get off the
M.T.V. - Get off the air
M.T.V. - Get off the
M.T.V. - Get off the
M.T.V. - Get off the air
Get off the air
See the latest rejects from the muppet show
Shake their tits and their dicks as they lip-synch on screen
There's something I don't like about a band who always smiles
Another tax write-off for some schmuck who doesn't care
M.T.V. - Get off the
M.T.V. - Get off the
M.T.V. - Get off the air
M.T.V. - Get off the
M.T.V. - Get off the
M.T.V. - Get off the air
Get off the air
Get off the air
Get off the air
And so it was, our beloved corporate gods
Claimed they created rock video
Allowing it to sink as low in one year
As commercial T.V. has in 25
"It's the new frontier" they say
"It's wide open, anything can happen"
But you've got a lot of nerve
To call yourself a pioneer
When you're too god-damn conservative
To take real chances
Tin-eared
Graph-paper brained accountants
Instead of music fans
Call all the shots at giant record companies now
The lowest common denominator rules
Forget honesty
Forget creativity
The dumbest buy the mostest
That's the name of the game
But sales are slumping
And no one will say why
Could it be they put out one too many lousy records?!?
M.T.V. - Get off the air
NOW!
If your machine might slip a gear
Push this button to help it clear
Your time card says your name's Joe
But we'll call you 6-3-0
I'm working at my job
I'm so happy
More boring by the day
But they pay me
All that time spent going to school
Just to end up following rules
I'm working at my job
I'm so happy
More boring by the day
But they pay me
Now it's time to take a break
Don't stray too far or you'll be late
Thank you for your service and a long career
Glad you gave us your best years
I'm working at my job
I'm so happy
More boring by the day
But they pay me
I'm working at my job
I'm so happy
More boring by the day
But they pay me
Stars And Stripes Of Corruption
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 the 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 Vietnam
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
But 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!
Let's bring it all down!
Let's bring it all down!
Down! Down! Down!Down!
Down! Down! Down!Down!
Down! Down! Down!Down!
Down! Down! Down!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 useless 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!
Let's bring it all down!
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?
Dead Kennedys.
Klaüs Flouride -- bass.
East Bay Ray -- guitar.
D.H. Peligro -- drums.
Jello Biafra -- vocals.