Frankenchrist
Dead Kennedys
1985 Released
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1
Soup Is Good Food
04 : 16
2
Hellnation
02 : 20
3
This Could Be Anywhere (This Could Be Everywhere)
05 : 23
4
A Growing Boy Needs His Lunch
05 : 48
5
Chicken Farm
05 : 04
6
Macho-Rama (Invasion of the Beef Patrol)
04 : 05
7
Goons of Hazzard
04 : 23
8
MTV - Get Off the Air
03 : 36
9
At My Job
03 : 39
10
Stars and Stripes of Corruption
06 : 19
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Track Lyrics
Soup Is Good Food Lyrics
[Verse 1]
We're sorry, but you're no longer needed
Or wanted, or even cared about here
Machines can do a better job than you
And 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
[Pre-Chorus]
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?
[Chorus]
Soup is good food (We don't need you anymore)
You make a good meal (We don't need you anymore)
So, how does it feel to be shit out our ass
And thrown in the cold like a piece of trash?
[Verse 2]
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
[Pre-Chorus]
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
[Chorus]
Soup is good food (We don't need you anymore)
You make a good meal (We don't need you anymore)
Now, how does it feel to be shit out our ass
And thrown in the cold?
[Instrumental Bridge]
[Verse 3]
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
Till even the outside world looks great
[Pre-Chorus]
In high-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 disposal unit
Ground into sludge and flushed away
Aw, geez!
[Refrain]
We don't need you anymore
We don't need you anymore
[Chorus]
Soup is good food (We don't need you anymore)
You make a good meal (We don't need you anymore)
Now, how does it feel to be shit out our ass
And thrown in the cold like a piece of trash?
[Post-Chorus]
We know how much you'd like to die
We joke about it on our coffee breaks
But we're paid to force you to have a nice day
In the wonderful world we made just for you
[Outro]
"Poor rats," we human rodents chuckle
"At least we get a dignified cremation"
Yet, at 6:00 tomorrow morning
It's time to get up and go to work
Hellnation Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Hellnation's what they teach us
Profiting from greed
Hellnation's what they give us
Coke, heroin, and 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
[Chorus]
To this Hellnation, Hellnation
Hellnation, Hellnation
Problem is, few care
About the people in despair
If you help no one
You're guilty in this Hellnation
[Verse 2]
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 in trying to vote?
When this country makes war
We all die in the same boat
[Chorus]
To this Hellnation, Hellnation
Hellnation, Hellnation
Problem is, few care
About the people in despair
If you help no one
You're guilty in this Hellnation
[Guitar Solo]
[Bridge]
Oh, problem is, few care
About the people in despair
If you help no one
You're guilty in this Hellnation
It's the only world we've got
Let's protect it while we can
That's all there is
And there ain't no more
[Verse 3]
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 kids of tomorrow
Won't wind up slaves to their trade
[Chorus]
In this Hellnation, Hellnation
Hellnation, Hellnation
Problem is, few care
About the people in despair
If you help no one
You're guilty in this Hellnation
This Could Be Anywhere (This Could Be Everywhere) Lyrics
[Intro]
Yeah
[Verse 1]
Cold, concrete apartments
Rise up from wet, black asphalt
Below them like a few carcasses
Of the long-gone age of privacy
[Verse 2]
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
[Pre-Chorus]
One by one, the little houses
Are bricked up and condemned
A subtle hint to move
Before the rats move in
[Chorus]
This could be anywhere
Could be anywhere
Everywhere
[Verse 3]
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"
But now there's lots of fights
[Verse 4]
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"
[Pre-Chorus]
Empty, plastic, culture-slum
Suburbia is a war zone now
Sprouting the kinds of gangs
We thought we'd left behind
[Chorus]
This could be anywhere
Could be anywhere
Everywhere
Could be anywhere
Could be everywhere
Could be anywhere
[Interlude]
[Bridge]
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
[Chorus]
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 (Everywhere)
This could be anywhere (Anywhere)
This could be everywhere
[Post-Chorus]
I hope I'm gone before it explodes
[Verse 5]
I linger late at night
Waiting for the bus
No amount of neon jazz
Could hide the oozing vibes of death
[Verse 6]
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
[Pre-Chorus]
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
[Chorus]
This could be anywhere
Could be everywhere
Could be anywhere
Everywhere
[Outro]
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
Everywhere
A Growing Boy Needs His Lunch Lyrics
[Verse 1]
In lonely gas stations with minimarts
You'll find rows of them for sale:
Liquor-filled statues of Elvis Presley
Screw his head off and drink like a vampire
His disciples flock to such a fitting shrine
Sprawled across from his ghastly mansion
A shopping mall
Filled with prayer rugs and Elvis dolls
[Pre-Chorus]
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
[Chorus]
A growing boy needs his lunch
A growing boy needs his lunch
[Verse 2]
When pesticides get banned, we're safe up North
We'll 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 plastic burros and birdbaths
[Pre-Chorus]
And I wonder
Yeah, I wonder
Why so many insects around us
Feed off the dead
Death squads
And starvation
Foreign aid?
Just leave it to the magic of the marketplace
[Chorus]
A growing boy needs his lunch
A growing boy needs his lunch
[Interlude]
[Bridge 1]
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
[Bridge 2]
Jimmy through your locked front doors
And rifle through your sacred drawers
Line my pockets, deface your dreams
Till the cows come home to me, to me, all for me
[Bridge 3]
Nibbling like an earwig
Winding through your brain
Bound like Laurence Harvey
Spread-eagled to a bed
Migraine gets wors
When you find out they lay eggs
And no one in all of Borneo
Can hear you scream, scream
[Chorus]
A growing boy needs his lunch
A growing boy needs his lunch
A growing boy needs his lunch
[Outro]
Turn on
Tune in
Cop out
Dropkick, turn in, tune out
Chicken Farm Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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: today's broken bodies
Lots to pick clean if you're first and quick
Rifle through their pockets, peel off their clothes
To wear or sell when you wash out the blood
[Pre-Chorus]
Run, my little brother
Run to the chicken farm
Opportunity is calling
You might even find a watch
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 2]
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
[Pre-Chorus]
How many more children
Will be killed or die at birth?
Deformed by Agent Orange
In our food chain forevermore?
[Chorus]
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 chickens farm, ha-ha
[Interlude]
[Bridge]
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 pieces one by one in this camp
We crawl shaking through the fields at gunpoint all day
To defuse leftover landmines by hand, hand, hand
[Verse 3]
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"
[Pre-Chorus]
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
[Chorus]
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
[Outro]
Farm, farm, farm
Goons of Hazzard Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Happy hour belongs to America's best-loved thugs
Here come the four-wheel drive prosthetic penises
Got your 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
[Chorus]
We are the Goons of Hazzard
Glorified on your TV
We run down bikes and hitchhikers
'Cause we know we'll get off scot-free
[Verse 2]
We're the vigilante heroes of your tough-guy flicks
Bashing punks and bums and fags
With our baseball bats
No deer to blow away in the woods today
So, we go to Oroville and shoot a Black kid down
Or waste demonstrators in Greensboro instead
[Chorus]
We are the Goons of Hazzard
Glorified on your TV
We leave you in a pool of blood
'Cause we know we'll get off scot-free
[Interlude]
[Bridge]
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!
Yes!
[Verse 3]
Local papers paint us up to be big heroes
City fathers and Chamber of Commerce want us deputized
The stoner Gestapo keepin' your town clean
Get a shave, kid
We'll pay you as a strikebreaker
Maybe you'll make Tac Squad for the LAPD
[Chorus]
We are the Goons of Hazzard
Glorified on your TV
We leave you in a pool of blood
'Cause we know we'll get off scot-free
[Outro]
Free
Scot-free
Scot-free
We always get off
We always get off
We always get off free!
MTV - Get Off the Air Lyrics
[Intro]
(Fun, fun, fun in the fluffy chair
Flame up the herb, wolf down the beer
Fun, fun, fun in the fluffy chair
Flame up the herb, wolf down the beer
Fun, fun, fun in the fluffy chair
Flame up the herb, wolf down the beer
Fun, fun, fun in the fluffy chair
Flame up the herb, wolf down the beer
Fun, fun, fun in the fluffy chair
Flame up the herb, wolf down the beer
Fun, fun, fun in the fluffy chair
Flame up the herb, wolf down the beer
Fun, fun, fun in the fluffy chair
Flame up the herb, wolf down the beer
Fun, fun, fun in the fluffy chair
Flame up the herb, wolf down the beer)
[Spoken Intro]
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
MTV, get off the air!
[Verse 1]
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 that nothing's left to the imagination
[Chorus]
MTV, get off the, MTV, get off the, MTV, get off the air!
MTV, get off the, MTV, get off the, MTV, get off the air!
Get off the air!
[Verse 2]
See the latest rejects from the Muppet Show
Shake their tits and their dicks as they lip-sync 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
[Chorus]
MTV, get off the, MTV, get off the, MTV, get off the air!
MTV, get off the, MTV, get off the, MTV, get off the air!
Get off the air! Get off the air! Get off the air!
[Instrumental Interlude]
[Verse 3]
And so it was our beloved corporate gods
Claimed they created rock video
Allowing it to sink as low in one year
As commercial TV has in twenty-five
[Verse 4]
"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 goddamned conservative to take real chances
[Verse 5]
Tin-eared, graph-paper-brained
Accountants instead of music fans
Call all the shots at giant record companies now
The lowest common denominator rules
[Verse 6]
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?
[Outro]
MTV, get off the air now!
At My Job Lyrics
[Verse 1]
If your machine might slip a gear
Push this button to help it clear
Your timecard says that your name's Joe
But we'll call you 6-3-0
[Chorus]
I'm working at my job, I'm so happy
More boring by the day, but they pay me
[Verse 2]
All that time spent going to school
Just to end up following rules
[Chorus]
I'm working at my job, I'm so happy
More boring by the day, but they pay me
[Bridge]
Now it's time to take a break
Don't stray too far or you'll be late
[Verse 3]
Thank you for your service and a long career
Glad you gave us your best years
[Outro]
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 Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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 that 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
[Pre-Chorus]
Like a great eternal Klansman
With his two flashing red eyes
Turn around, it's always watching
The Washington Monument pricks the sky
With flags like pubic hair ringed 'round the bottom
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 2]
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
While 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
[Pre-Chorus]
The drug we're fed to make us like it
Is God and country with a bang
People, we know who should know better
Howl, "America rules, let's go to war!"
Business scams are what's worth dying for
[Chorus]
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
[Post-Chorus]
And 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, down
Whoa!
[Bridge 1]
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 war toys 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 'cause 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?
[Bridge 2]
But what can just one of us do?
Against all that money and power
Trying to crush us into roaches?
We won'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 so 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!
[Verse 3]
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 on 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!
[Pre-Chorus]
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's much more fun!
[Chorus]
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
[Post-Chorus]
And let's bring it all down!
And let's bring it all down!
Let's bring it all down!
[Outro]
If we don't try, if we just lie
If we can't find a way to do better than this, who will?