Bedtime for Democracy

Dead Kennedys

1986 Released

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Take This Job and Shove It

01 : 24

Hop With the Jet Set

02 : 06

Dear Abby

01 : 09

Rambozo the Clown

02 : 24

Fleshdunce

01 : 29

The Great Wall

01 : 32

Shrink

01 : 44

Triumph of the Swill

02 : 16

Macho Insecurity

01 : 29

I Spy

02 : 29

Cesspools in Eden

05 : 54

One-Way Ticket to Pluto

01 : 38

Do the Slag

01 : 36

A Commercial

01 : 32

Gone With My Wind

01 : 42

Anarchy for Sale

01 : 18

Chickenshit Conformist

05 : 58

Where Do Ya Draw the Line

02 : 38

Potshot Heard Round the World

02 : 10

D.M.S.O.

02 : 09

Lie Detector

03 : 41

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Track Lyrics

Take This Job and Shove It Lyrics

[Chorus]

Take this job and shove it

I ain't working here no more

My woman left and took all the reasons

I've been working for

You better not try to stand in my way

As I'm walking out the door

Take this job and shove it

I ain't working here no more

[Chorus]

Take this job and shove it

I ain't working here no more

My woman left and took all the reasons

I've been working for

You better not try to stand in my way

As I'm walking out the door

Take this job and shove it

I ain't working here no more

[Verse 1]

I've been working in this factory

From now on fifteen years

All this time, I've seen my woman

Drowning in her tears

I've seen a lot of good people die

Who had a lot of bills to pay

I'd give the shirt right off my back

If I had the nerve to say:

[Chorus]

Take this job and shove it

I ain't working here no more

My woman left and took all the reasons

I've been working for

You better not try to stand in my way

As I'm walking out the door

Take this job and shove it

I ain't working here no more

[Verse 2]

That foreman, he's a regular dog

That line boss, he's a fool

Got brand-new skinhead haircuts

Thinks that he looks so cool

One of these days, I'll blow my top

Or somebody's gonna pay

I'd hate to see the look on his face

When I enter the factory and say:

[Chorus]

Take this job and shove it

I ain't working here no more

My woman left and took all the reasons

I've been working for

You better not try to stand in my way

As I'm walking out the door

Take this job and shove it

I ain't working here no more

[Outro]

Take this job and shove it

I ain't working here

Ain't working here

Ain't working here no more

Hop With the Jet Set Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I say, come on!

To pleasures unknown

Where we fly to when we are all bored

C'mon for the ride

When we hop with the jet set tonight

[Chorus]

We'll sun ourselves red

Down in Montego Bay

Hotel-hired guards

Keep the natives away

[Verse 2]

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

[Verse 3]

What about them Injuns' ancestral art?

Some of that would look cute up on our walls

Yeah, suit it just fine

When we hop with the jet set tonight

[Chorus]

We'll hire out some poachers

To go steal their dolls

Who cares if they're sacred?

They look awful cute

[Verse 4]

Nat. Geographic found a Stone Age tribe

Let's feed them their first hot dogs on film

Won't that be a prize

To show to the jet set tonight?

[Chorus]

"Aren't they cute, aren't they pure?"

Muse subscribers back home

Next weekend, the junta exterminates them

Back home by the sea at our outdoor café

Our chameleon tongues catch the flies in the air

Dear Abby Lyrics

[Intro]

Dear Abby:

Got a problem...

[Verse 1]

I'm a decent, underpaid

Hardworking county coroner

It's important that my family eats meat

At least three times a week

But we just can't afford to

With prices the way they are

So, I bring home some choice cuts

From my autopsy subjects

Just mix in the Tuna Helper and ta-da!

[Refrain]

Dear Abby:

Got a problem...

[Verse 2]

The whole family thinks

My new meals are delicious

They ask me, "What's your secret?"

Abby, I think they're getting suspicious

My smartass eight-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

[Refrain]

Abby, what do I tell my family?

[Outro]

Dear Reaganomics victim:

Consult your clergyman

Make sure the body's blessed

And everything should be just fine

Just fine...

Rambozo the Clown Lyrics

[Verse 1]

We got a deadly toy

To brainwash your boy

An egocentric, muscle thug

Kicks butt on screen like a brat out of hell

Bullshitter in the Indochina shop

Pull the string in his back

We win the war

[Pre-Chorus 1]

That we never

Should have started at all

[Pre-Chorus 2]

A Cabbage Patch terrorist to call our own

Who rewrites history with a machine gun

Don't think about it; kill it!

That's what we teach your child

[Chorus]

Rambozo, Rambozo

Rambozo the clown

Rambozo, Rambozo

Rambozo the clown

[Verse 2]

To draft-age kids

It sure looks fun:

"Kill 'em all

And let God sort 'em out"

Like video games, no mess

Just fuel for a mass lapse of common sense

You can be Don Quixote

We'll dice you with our windmill blades

[Pre-Chorus 1]

Brawn over brain

Means a happy ending

[Pre-Chorus 2]

G.I. Joe in the cereal bowl

Gray shrapnel-flavored chewing gum

Mass murder ain't just painless

Now that we've made it cute

[Chorus]

Rambozo, Rambozo

Rambozo the clown

Rambozo, Rambozo

Rambozo the clown

[Bridge]

War is sexy, war is fun

Iron Ego, Red Dawn

Be a wolverine, you'll rule the hills

Just get some guns and Cheerios

Any kid can conquer Libya

Just steal a fighter plane

[Pre-Chorus]

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...

[Chorus]

Rambozo, Rambozo

Rambozo the clown

Rambozo, Rambozo

Rambozo the clown

[Chorus]

Rambozo, Rambozo

Rambozo the clown

Rambozo, Rambozo

Rambozo

[Outro: Spoken]

"Hey, Rocky

Watch me pull a massacre out of my pants"

"Again?!"

Fleshdunce Lyrics

[Intro]

Ooh, ow!

Hey!

[Verse 1]

We're world industries' thought lords

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 all the blows

Of your forced daily routine

[Pre-Chorus]

We strip-mine your underground culture

Take the bite out and rinse it clean

Give ourselves credit for creating it

Then sell it back to you at twice the price

[Refrain]

Hey

[Verse 2]

Our pod of talent vampires

Has blown into your town

To dazzle, sign, and milk you

All strictly on our terms

You think you've got a lot to say

We'll change that real soon

You're not a person anymore

We've made you a cartoon

[Pre-Chorus]

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

[Chorus]

Conveyor belt of fleshdunce

They all want to do the fleshdance

Conveyor belt of fleshdunce

Who all want to do the fleshdance

Conveyor belt of fleshdunce

They all want to do the fleshdance

Conveyor belt of fleshdunce

Who all want to do the fleshdance

The Great Wall Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Great Wall of China

It's so big it's seen from outer space

Put there to keep the starving neighbors

Locked outside the gates

[Pre-Chorus]

So, what's changed today?

Empires hoard more than they need

And peasants threaten our comfort

[Chorus]

We'll build a Great Wall around our power

Build a Great Wall around our power

[Verse 2]

Bankrupt LA's streetcar line

So people pay more to drive

Plant strategic freeways

To divide neighborhoods by color lines

[Pre-Chorus]

We'd rather pay for riot squads

Than pump your ghetto back to life

We let your schools decay on purpose

[Chorus]

To build a Great Wall around our power

Build a Great Wall around our power

[Bridge]

Warlords in gray suits

Take a different route to work each day

Secondhand 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

Put them back on the next plane

To the waiting arms

Of the same death squads they fled, yeah

[Chorus]

We've built a Great Wall around our power

Worldwide Great Wall around our power

Economic Great Wall around our power

[Outro]

Give us your poor

Your tired, your weak

We'll send 'em right back

To their certain death

Shrink Lyrics

[Verse 1]

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 around

Why don't we build a machine

With all the know-how of the industries?

We put a man on the moon

We're gonna need more room to breathe real soon

[Refrain]

Oh...

[Verse 2]

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

[Refrain]

Oh...

[Verse 3]

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

[Refrain]

Oh...

Triumph of the Swill Lyrics

[Intro: Spoken]

"We came home and found our son

Lying dead on his bed of a gunshot wound

He had his headphones on

And there was an Ozzy record on the turntable

So, we called our lawyer"

[Verse 1]

Life can only get better

All you need to do is fall in love

Everyone else has fun but you

Buy that fun, you'll fit in, too

[Pre-Chorus]

Dance your problems away

(Government music)

Cheap escape to that mind-control beat

(Government music)

Mellow out, life's too hard

You won't even want to think

[Refrain]

[Verse 2]

See the macho, cock-rock metal heroes

Vomit fire out of their big mouths

Shake your fists obediently

Make Leni Riefenstahl real proud

[Verse 3]

See the Aryan bozo with the red guitar

Parachute on the White House lawn

Gonna bomb the commies with his air guitar

So dumb he can't drive 55

[Pre-Chorus]

Like Bing Crosby before them

(Government music)

Too idiotic to be real

(Government music)

You want it loud?

We'll make sure it goes nowhere

So you won't get ideas

[Chorus]

Triumph of the swill

[Verse 4]

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

[Verse 5]

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

[Pre-Chorus]

So, what do we get?

(Government music)

Christian censorship and taxed blank tapes

(Government music)

Shoppers strung out on our false hopes

Will flock to obey

[Chorus]

Triumph of the swill

Macho Insecurity Lyrics

[Intro]

Ow!

[Verse 1]

Name one thing on Earth

Lower than a tough guy (Tough guy)

Who talks with his fists

Instead of using his head (His head)

Who beats the shit

Out of anything it can't understand

Behind the muscle mask

Is a scared little boy called

[Chorus]

Macho insecurity

'Cause you can't stand yourself

[Verse 2]

Got a bitch with me?

Why won't you say it to my face? (My face)

It's so easy to mouth off to others

Where's your proof? (Your proof)

Maybe we can talk

If you'd just drop your act

Nothing's ever solved

By making childish threats, that's

[Chorus]

Macho insecurity

'Cause you can't stand yourself

[Bridge]

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

[Chorus]

Macho insecurity

'Cause you can't stand your

Macho insecurity

You can't stand yourself

I Spy Lyrics

[Verse 1]

You look at me from the back of the room

All I see is a bumbling buffoon

Head down like you don't see much

Until you move in to make your bust

[Chorus]

I spy for you and me

[Verse 2]

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

[Chorus]

I spy for you and me

[Post-Chorus]

All right

[Verse 3]

Curious folks ask questions of life

But you can't answer 'cause your heart's like a knife

Still, you feel like you sing the last song sung

You're just a heartless piece of scum with a gun

[Chorus]

I spy for you and me

[Outro]

I spy

Cesspools in Eden Lyrics

[Verse 1]

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!"

[Bridge 1]

"What's making our eyes so itchy?

Don't rub 'em, they'll swell up"

[Bridge 2]

Oh... Oh, oh, oh

It's a big waste dump

Oh, yeah

[Verse 2]

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

[Chorus]

Cesspools in Eden

Oozing away

[Verse 3]

Groundwater's poisoned

Air stings like hell

The lines for doctors grow long

Over martinis

The company laughs

"We don't owe you a damn thing"

[Bridge 1]

But what about

All these fainting spells?

How'd you like a lick

From my open sores?

[Bridge 2]

And, oh... Oh, oh, oh

Why are our babies stillborn?

Oh, yeah

[Verse 4]

A storage tank's leaking

It's about to explode

Why evacuate

When you can watch the fun?

Nothing happens here

Get out the lawn chairs

We'll drink pink lemonade

And watch Martinez burn

[Chorus]

Cesspools in Eden

Oozing away

Leak by the day

[Verse 5]

The land we sold you

Is right atop our acid pits

We fill them by the truckload

In the dead of night

There's a thousand more toxic

Tips of the iceberg

We pay a little bribe

Or we just don't report them

[Pre-Chorus]

And see what you get?

[Chorus]

Cesspools in Eden

In Eden

No accident

Just a little of our greed-fueled negligence

[Verse 6]

So, you've found the proof why

Your cancer rate's shot up

But what ya gonna do

When we've got all the cards?

Times Beach, Rocky Flats

Love Canal, and Bhopal

Merry Christmas, hostages

From the folks that care

[Chorus]

Cesspools in Eden

In Eden

[Outro]

Have a nice day

One-Way Ticket to Pluto Lyrics

[Verse 1]

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

[Chorus]

You're going where no man has gone before

Don't ask us where that is

We have no idea

You're chosen for this great mission

Because we owe you some favors

And besides, you're bright

A little too bright

[Verse 2]

Step one:

Senator, your vomit

It's time to analyze it

For the folks back home

Open the hatch, launch 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

[Chorus]

You're going where no man has gone before

Don't ask us where that is

We have no idea

You're chosen for this great mission

Because you're healthy and strong

And make a lot of fuss

Especially around us

We like you better when you're far away

[Verse 3]

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 the farce that they are?

[Chorus]

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

So don't forget to write...

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

Do the Slag Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Have you heard about the latest craze

That's sweepin' across the nation?

All the punks from coast to coast

Have discovered an old invention:

[Pre-Chorus]

"Your hair's too long

Hey, you're a queer

You're too new wave

Put down that beer"

[Chorus]

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

[Verse 2]

Badmouth the people we don't know

Make sure it's behind their backs

Don't let new people in our scene

It's more fun than having a friend

[Verse 3]

We'll slag everyone each and every night

So we can pretend that we're all right

Make those pricks feel just so small

We'll show the world we're three feet tall

[Pre-Chorus]

Slander their integrity

Doubt their humanity

Talk about their haircuts

Are their politics correct?

[Chorus]

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

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 4]

Don't let those sissies on the floor

They're unhip, man; they brought the wrong clothes

Let's all do the latest craze

'Cause having allies never pays

[Pre-Chorus]

Slander their integrity

Doubt their humanity

Talk about their haircuts

Are their politics correct?

[Chorus]

Do the slag, look at 'em run

Do the slag, ain't it fun?

Do the slag, hey, you scum

Do the slag, let's all be dumb

Do the slag, look at 'em run

Do the slag, ain't it fun?

Do the slag, hey, you scum

Do the slag, let's all be dumb

A Commercial Lyrics

[Skit: Spoken]

Have we got a telethon for you

Coming soon on MTV

A rockin' bankroll extravaganza

Featuring all your vigilante rock stars:

Sammy Hagar (Yay!)

Sylvester Stallone

Clint Eastwood

This telethon is so important

We've even exhumed the bodies of Lynyrd Skynyrd (Wow!)

This ain't no sissy concert

To raise food for the needy

This concert's whipped up the American way

To raise money for guns for the greedy

So, stay tuned and dig in those heels

For USA for South Africa

It's USA for South Africa

'Cause those poor, sex-starved

Apartheid riot battalions

Need more machine guns

More tear gas, more nerve gas

And more electric fences

For those prison camps

They call "homelands"

And who's going to give it to them?

We are! Every one of us

Every time we go to the bank

Every time we buy food at Theftway

Or those fancy chrome wheels

For your hot car

It's USA for South Africa!

Don't delay! Apartheid is a big business!

What would those American ladies do

Without those diamonds?

You have heard the White House... Don't miss it!

Have your rich parents' money ready

World hunger's gone forever

Once your check's in the mail

When MTV and the rock-and-racism connection

Bring you live, from Sun City

USA for South Africa!

Gone With My Wind Lyrics

[Verse 1]

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 last great thrill

If I die, all of you should, too"

[Chorus]

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

[Verse 2]

All my bombs will rain down on DC

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, what do you say?

It's been dancing in my head for years

What'll happen if I push this button?

Let's start World War III for fun

[Chorus]

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

[Bridge]

Mr. President, just sit down

We should talk a little while, I'll pour another round

What about your memoir's TV rights?

Sit tight and watch the fire

[Verse 3]

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 okay

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

[Chorus]

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

Anarchy for Sale Lyrics

[Intro]

Step right up, folks

Anarchy for sale!

[Verse 1]

T-shirts: only ten dollars

Badges: only $3.50

I nicked the design, never asked the band

I never listen to them, either

[Pre-Chorus]

Buy, buy, buy! From Circle A

Like hula hoops, it's a disposable craze

Another fast-food fad to throw away

[Chorus]

It's anarchy for sale

Anarchy for sale

[Verse 2]

Sheep unite! Get your cuddly boots and studs

Be sure to rebel in the proper style

Rebel along the paths we pick

Out of fear of peer pressure we create

[Pre-Chorus]

Hey, you! Get those flyers off my wall

No commie peace shit in my boutique

No one here cares what that all means

[Chorus]

It's anarchy for sale

Anarchy for sale

[Verse 3]

Our town sucks; our scene rules

To belong, you must buy into it

So, we sold you metal spike bracelets

So, c'mon, let's see a good fight

[Chorus]

That's anarchy for sale

Anarchy for sale

Chickenshit Conformist Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Punk's not dead; it just deserves to die

When it becomes another stale cartoon

A closed-minded, self-centered social club

Ideas don't matter; it's who you know

If the music's gotten boring, it's because of the people

Who want everyone to sound the same

Who drive the bright people out of our so-called scene

Till all that's left is just a meaningless fad

[Pre-Chorus 1]

Hardcore formulas are dogshit, change and caring are what's real

Is this a state of mind or just another label?

The joy and hope of an alternative has become its own cliché

A hairstyle's not a lifestyle, imagine Sid Vicious at thirty-five

[Pre-Chorus 2]

Who needs a scene? Scared to love and to feel

Judging everything by loud, fast rules' appeal

Who played last night? "I don't know, I forgot

But diving off the stage was a lot of fun"

[Chorus]

So eager to please peer pressure decrees

Make the same old mistakes, again and again

Chickenshit conformist like your parents

[Verse 2]

What's ripped us apart even more than drugs

Are the thieves and the goddamn liars

Ripping people off when they share their stuff

When someone falls, are there any friends?

Harder-core-than-thou for a year or two

Then it's time to get a real job

Others stay home; it's no fun to go out

When the gigs are wrecked by gangs and thugs

When the thugs form bands, look who gets record deals

From New York metal labels looking to scam

Who sign the most racist queer-bashing bands they can find

To make a buck revving kids up for war

[Pre-Chorus 1]

Walk tall, act small, only as tough as gang approval

Unity is bullshit when it's under someone's fat boot

Where's the common cause?

Too many factions safely sulk in their shells

"Agree with us on everything or we won't help with anything"

That kind of attitude just makes a split grow wider

[Pre-Chorus 2]

Guess who's laughing while the world explodes?

When we're all crybabies who fight best among ourselves

[Chorus]

So eager to please peer pressure decrees

Make the same old mistakes, again and again

Chickenshit conformist like your parents

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]

That farty, old rock-and-roll attitude's back

"It's competition, man; we wanna break big"

Who needs friends when the money's good?

That's right, the '70s are back

Cock-rock metal's like a bad laxative

It just don't move me, ya know?

The music's okay when there's more ideas than solos

Do we really need the attitude, too?

[Pre-Chorus 1]

Shedding thin skin too quickly, as a fan, it disappoints me

Same old, stupid, sexist lyrics or is Satan all you can think of?

"Crossover" is just another word for lack of ideas

Maybe what we need are more trolls under the bridge

Will the metalheads finally learn something?

Or will the punks throw away their education?

[Pre-Chorus 2]

No one's ever the best once they believe their own press

"Maturing" don't mean rehashing mistakes of the past

[Chorus]

So eager to please peer pressure decrees

Make the same old mistakes, again and again

Chickenshit conformist like your parents

[Bridge]

The more things change, the more they stay the same

We can't grow when we won't criticize ourselves

The '60s weren't all failure, it's the '70s that stunk

As the clock ticks, we dig the same hole

Music scenes ain't real life, they won't get rid of the bomb

Won't eliminate rape or bring down the banks

Any kind of real change takes more time and work

Than changing channels on a TV set

[Chorus]

So, why are we so eager to please peer pressure decrees?

So eager to please peer pressure decrees

Make the same old mistakes, again and again

Chickenshit conformist like your parents

Where Do Ya Draw the Line Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Seems like the more I think I know

The more I find I don't

Every answer opens up

So many questions

Anarchy sounds good to me

Then someone asks, "Who'd fix the sewers?"

"Would the rednecks just play king

Of the neighborhood?"

[Verse 2]

How many liberators

Really want to be dictators?

Every theory has its holes

When real life steps in

So, how do we feed and make room for

All the people crowded on our earth

And transfer all that wealth

From the rich to those who need it?

[Chorus]

Where do ya draw the line?

I'm not telling you; I'm asking you

[Verse 3]

Ever notice hardline radicals

Can go on star trips, too

Where no one's pure and right

Except themselves?

"I'm cleansed of the system"

('Cept when my amp needs electric power)

Or, "The party line says, 'No

Feminists can't wear fishnets'"

[Verse 4]

You wanna help stop war?

Well, we reject your application

You crack too many jokes

And you eat meat

What better way to turn people off

Than to twist ideas for change

Into one more church that forgets

We're all human beings?

[Chorus]

Where do ya draw the line?

I'm not telling you; I'm asking you

[Post-Chorus]

Right

[Guitar Solo]

[Bridge]

In Toronto, someone blew up

A cruise missile warhead plant

Ten slightly hurt

Four million dollars' damage

Why not destroy private property

When it's used against you and me?

Is that violence or self-defense?

You tell me

[Chorus]

Where do ya draw the line?

I'm not telling you; I'm asking you

Where do ya draw the line?

I'm not telling you; I'm asking you

Where do ya draw the line?

I'm not telling you; I'm asking you

Where do ya draw the line?

[Outro]

Draw the line!

Oh-oh-oh-oh

Draw the line!

Oh-oh-oh-oh

Draw the line!

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

Potshot Heard Round the World Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Hey! Yo!

We're the United States Marines

We know you've all been killing each other

For at least two thousand years

But we're here now

To protect the family

Of Christian heroin warlords

Most friendly to the West

So, you knock off this fighting

Or we'll tell Mom

[Verse 2]

Ever notice news is staged

Like TV wrestling shows?

With Reagans and Khaddafis cast

As cartoon villains and heroes

Or those wildlife "documentaries"

Where a lion from a zoo

Kills a deer tied down ahead of time

"At the perfect camera angle"

When lemmings balk at dying for Disney

They're (just) hurled off the cliff

[Verse 3]

We are gathered here today

To take photos of the president

Pretending to mourn these brave, young men

Who came home from Beirut

Gift-wrapped in body bags

A truck bomb blew them to bits

We knew they were sitting ducks

We sacrificed 'em, Aztec-style

So we could use their dead meat

To cook up war fever back home

[Verse 4]

So, make sure you take lots of pictures

And slant your news our way

Just like in Wild Kingdom

We first tied down the prey

We want people boiling

For revenge in their living rooms

So we can go play shoot-'em-up

Anywhere we choose

And our backers can cash in

Without the public asking questions

D.M.S.O. Lyrics

[Verse 1]

D... M... S... O...

Crypto-wonder drug in vogue

Some people say it cures arthritis

Maybe that's why it keeps getting banned

It's absorbed directly through the skin

Mix it with lemon juice

Touch your fingertips

You'll taste the lemon

[Verse 2]

The police started a riot

Down at the courthouse again

Running amok, spilling blood

Bashing heads

I do my part behind the lines

Swabbing door handles of cop cars

With DMSO

Mixed with LSD

[Outro]

D... M... S... O...

Lie Detector Lyrics

[Verse 1]

We have reviewed your yellow form

Congratulations! We find you qualified

You have just the right capacity

For putting up with our nonsense

There's just one thing you've got to prove

We know how you must be dishonest and lazy

If you're so desperate

You actually want to work at this place

[Chorus]

You must be guilty (Lie detector)

You're guilty (Lie detector)

Guilty till you're proven innocent

These days...

[Verse 2]

Blood pressure clamps around your arms

Now, don't get nervous when we yell in your face

We know you steal; just who do you screw?

With what?! With who?! Aren't you a Christian?!

The polygraph, don't make it move

One little twitch, the anvil drops on you

Don't matter if you told the truth

We want your facial egg for our file

[Chorus]

Now you're guilty (Lie detector)

You're guilty (Lie detector)

Guilty till you're proven innocent

These days

Till proven innocent

These days

[Refrain]

Marsh

Aha

[Bridge]

Guilty till proven innocent

Guilty, it says so on your face

Guilty when you try to find

(Guilty) A place to live or a job that pays

Guilty when you file a complaint

(Guilty) Against the cop that kicked

Your face last night

Guilty, it says so on page three

Guilty, who'd think a guy like me

Would plant drugs in your car?

Break in your house while you're asleep?

Open your mouth, bet your ass you're watched

And it's your word against ours

[Verse 3]

Yeah, just because we're hiring you

No, that don't mean that we trust you at all

You'll have to take a test like this

Once or twice every week

We know machines, they make mistakes

And it's your word against our deaf, black box

The machine is always right

'Cause we know how it makes you feel so small

[Chorus]

Already guilty (Lie detector)

You're guilty (Lie detector)

Guilty till you're proven innocent

You are guilty (Lie detector)

You're guilty (Lie detector)

Guilty till you're proven innocent

These days

Proven innocent

These days

[Outro]

'Cause when you're innocent

When you're innocent

It just don't pay

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