Iguana Studios Rehearsal Tape: San Francisco 1978

Dead Kennedys

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Man With the Dogs

03 : 19

Kepone Kids

02 : 11

Forward to Death

01 : 40

Kill the Poor

03 : 27

Your Emotions

01 : 48

Dreadlocks of the Suburbs

03 : 02

I Kill Children

02 : 18

Cold Fish

02 : 50

Holiday in Cambodia

04 : 31

Kidnap

01 : 24

Mutations of Today

05 : 04

Rawhide

02 : 07

California über alles

03 : 47

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Track Lyrics

Man With the Dogs Lyrics

[Verse 1]

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

[Pre-Chorus]

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

[Chorus]

And I do and I do crack up 'cause I'm getting to you

I see you, I see you and you're pretty self-conscious, too

[Interlude]

Uh-huh

Yeah, yeah

[Verse 2]

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

[Pre-Chorus]

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

[Chorus]

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

[Post-Chorus]

And I'm gonna crack your mask

Yeah, and I'm gonna laugh

Open wide, yeah!

Aw, yeah!

[Verse 3]

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 Walgreens

[Pre-Chorus]

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?

[Chorus]

I dare you, I dare you to erase my laser tattoo

You see you, you see you and you're pretty self-conscious, too

[Post-Chorus]

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

[Outro]

As you go to work, and you cash your check

You come home, and you got enough to pay the rent

Turn on the TV with the football game

Tell your kids to shut up and go away

Close your eyes when you see me on your sidewalk

That does not sound like us

While you and your wretched corporation lies

Are slowly disintegrated into ashes

Ashes, ashes, ashes, and we all fall down

Kepone Kids Lyrics

[Intro]

Yeah!

[Verse 1]

Well, I can't quite get out of bed in the morning

And I can't quite get some sleep at night

And I can't quite see the way to my home door

But I can feel what you've done to my eyesight!

[Chorus]

And I say, kepone kids, gonna kill your sons!

Kepone kids, gonna kill your sons!

With their very own, kepone gun!

[Verse 2]

Well, I can't quite own the pleasure you feed me

And I can't quite get it up with a girl

And I can't quite get a grip on my steering wheel

But down at the plant, I know what's goin' on!

[Chorus]

Kepone kids, gonna kill your sons!

With their very own, kepone gun!

[Bridge]

Gonna go down to your big metal building

Gonna crawl up to your bright metal door

Gonna feed you powder that you made me breathe in

Then you'll siege us like the coward you are!

[Verse 3]

Well, I can't quite think this is the real one

And I can't quite stop my shaking no more

And I won't quite go to work the same way

Then I'll make you feel why I'm down on the floor!

[Chorus]

And I say, kepone kids, gonna kill your sons!

Kepone kids, gonna kill your sons!

Ee-yeah, aw, aw, yeah

Forward to Death Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I don't need your way of life

I can't stand your attitudes

I can do without your strife

[Pre-Chorus]

I don't need this fucking world

This world brings me down

[Chorus]

Gag with every breath

This world brings me down

I'm looking forward to death

[Verse 2]

It seems so unreal to me

So much hate and so much pity

I can't take another day

[Pre-Chorus]

It's such a bore, it gets me really sore

I don't need this fucking world

This world brings me down

[Chorus]

Gag with every breath

This world brings me down

I'm looking forward to death

[Guitar Solo]

[Outro]

Looking forward to death

Kill the Poor Lyrics

[Intro]

Efficiency and progress is ours once more

Now that we have the neutron bomb

It's nice and quick and clean and gets things done

Away with excess enemy

But no less value to property

No sense in war but perfect sense at home...

[Verse 1]

The sun beams down on a brand-new day

No more welfare tax to pay

Unsightly slums gone up in flashing light

Jobless millions whisked away

At last, we have more room to play

All systems go to kill the poor tonight

[Chorus]

Gonna kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor

Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor

Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor tonight

[Verse 2]

Behold the sparkle of champagne

The crime rate's gone, feel free again

Oh, life's a breeze with you, Miss Lily White

Jane Fonda on the screen today

Convinced the liberals it's okay

So let's get dressed to dance away the night

[Chorus]

While they kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor

Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor

Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor tonight

Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor

Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor tonight

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 2]

Behold the sparkle of champagne

The crime rate's gone, feel free again

Oh, life's a dream with you, Miss Lily White

Jane Fonda on the screen today

Convinced the liberals it's okay

So let's get dressed to dance away the night

[Chorus]

While they kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor

Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor

Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor tonight

Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor

Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor tonight

Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor

Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor tonight

[Outro]

Ay-ay!

Your Emotions Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Your mommy told you this

And your daddy told you that

"Always think like this

And never do that"

You learned so many feelings

But what is there to that?

Which are really yours

Or are you just a copycat?

[Verse 2]

Your school told you this

And your church told you that

"Memorize this

And don't you dare look at that"

They're all so concerned

To make their thoughts into yours

Just a tape recorder

Mimicking of the bores

[Chorus]

You're so boring, boring, boring

Always tape machine recording

You're so boring, boring, boring

I've heard all this before

[Verse 3]

Planless and mindless

Scraps from anywhere

Bunch of used parts

From garbage pails everywhere

Frankenstein became a monster

Just like you

Your scars only show

When someone talks to you

[Chorus]

You're so boring, boring, boring

Always tape machine recording

You're so boring, boring, boring

I've heard all this before

[Outro]

Your emotions make you a monster

Dreadlocks of the Suburbs Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Why don't you come to my room

While our daddies fucks with business

Ain't enough to fund my habits

They look like alcoholic rabbits

Ever had a load of [?]

And loosen up like all the folks do

But now you're [?]

Have a bong or do it tonight

[Chorus 1]

And oh, oh, be a dreadlock of the suburbs

[Verse 2]

So we've read about the Rastas

And about Haile Selassie

I don't know too much about him

He knows a lot cause he's an intern

Ain't that sound muy supremo

Oh, wait a minute, call it ganja

'Cause they call it that in High Times

Got to keep up with the new world

[Chorus 2]

'Cause oh, oh, I'm a dreadlock of the suburbs

And oh, oh, I'm a dreadlock of the suburbs

And oh, oh, let's be a dreadlock of the suburbs

And oh, oh, I'm a Rasta rich kid

[Bridge]

Forget your stoned status

Listen up misfit

So we can feel so high

Until we can't say a word

'Cause we're so cool

And so, so chic

The love for [?]

[Verse 3]

Don't wanna hurt your daddy's [?]

There's Rasta kids in Bangladesh

But I'm a bleeding heart liberal

Wish I was starving in Jamaica

It looks so trippy in the pictures

Especially when you're stoned

Let's escape to the promised land

In my daddy's Porsche Coupe

[Chorus 3]

And oh, oh, time for dreadlocks of the suburbs

And oh, oh, be a dreadlock of the suburbs

Because oh, oh, we're holier than thou

[Outro]

The more things change, the more they stay the same

I Kill Children Lyrics

[Intro]

God told me to skin you alive

[Verse 1]

I kill children

I love to see them die

I kill children

And make their mamas cry

Crush 'em under my car

I wanna hear them scream

Feed 'em poison candy

To spoil their Halloween

[Verse 2]

So you're in the kids' ward

You're in there 'cause you're ill

How about some Pavulon

So I can see you chill?

Time to hit the school bus

I think I'll shoot the tires

Offer them a helping hand

Of open telephone wires

[Bridge]

Ever wanted to die? Of course, you have

But I won't 'til I get my revenge

Been fucked far, far too many ways

I don't wanna see people any more

Things I never ever saw before

Make me see them for the shit they are

Take as many as I can away with me

Anyone can be king for a day...

[Verse 3]

So, I kill children, I love to see them die

I kill children and make their mamas cry

I kill children, I bang their heads in doors

I kill children, can hardly wait for yours...

[Outro]

Can hardly wait for yours

Can hardly wait for yours, yours

Cold Fish Lyrics

[Intro]

Oh baby, oh baby

You're gonna make me so obsessed, oh yeah

[Verse 1]

I saw my baby in the morgue this morning

Neurotoxin makes good beer

I asked, can you maybe go leave for a minute?

Then I finally saw my baby's pubic hair

[Pre-Chorus 1]

I dove into the drawer

And tore off her rubber sheet, ooh

[Chorus]

In we go, cold fish

Cold fish

Gimme cold fish

Cold fish, when the brewer takes a fall, let's do it

Cold fish, when the brewer takes a fall, please do it

Cold fish, when the brewer takes a fall, let's do it

Why, oh why did my baby die?

[Verse 2]

Then they took her and buried her deep

Couldn't take some more so I went out to sleep

I dreamed my baby was still alive

I fed her a dose of strychnine

[Pre-Chorus 2]

She couldn't breathe, she gasped for breath

Down on the floor she went, ooh

Got my cold fish back again

[Chorus 2]

Cold fish, gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme

Dead fish, I want, they want, gimme gimme gimme gimme

Cold fish, woman aren't you pretty tonight

Let me do your worth while you're dead and cold

Pint goes up, up your nose!

[Verse 3]

Oh, when we saw her there

They forgot she had purple hair

She was an extra in the Rocky Horror Show

And then the producer wound up a scapegoat

[Pre-Chorus 3]

When she's cold, I take her body

And put it into colored vinyl

[Outro]

Cold fish

Cold fish!

Holiday in Cambodia Lyrics

[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse 1]

So, you've been to school for a year or two

And you know you've seen it all

In daddy's car, thinkin' you'll go far

Back east, your type don't crawl

Play ethnicky jazz to parade your snazz

On your five-grand stereo

Braggin' that you know how the niggas feel cold

And the slums got so much soul

[Pre-Chorus]

It's time to taste what you most fear

Right Guard will not help you here

Brace yourself, my dear

[Chorus]

It's a holiday in Cambodia

It's tough, kid, but it's life

It's a holiday in Cambodia

Don't forget to pack a wife

[Verse 2]

You're a star-belly sneech, you suck like a leech

You want everyone to act like you

Kiss ass while you bitch so you can get rich

But your boss gets richer off you

Well, you'll work harder with a gun in your back

For a bowl of rice a day

Slave for soldiers till you starve

Then your head is skewered on a stake

[Pre-Chorus]

Now you can go where people are one

Now you can go where they get things done

What you need, my son

[Chorus]

Is a holiday in Cambodia

Where people dress in black

A holiday in Cambodia

Where you'll kiss ass or crack

[Instrumental Break]

[Bridge]

Pol Pot

Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot

Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, it's a

[Chorus]

Holiday in Cambodia

Where you'll do what you're told

A holiday in Cambodia

Where the slums got so much soul

[Outro]

Pol Pot

Kidnap Lyrics

[Intro]

Hey, hey, hey, hey!

Liberation for today!

[Verse 1]

Kidnap, everyone in Italy

Kidnap, any bigwig you please

Kidnap, Caroline Kennedy

Kidnap, Donny and rape Marie

Kidnap, John Wayne and Debby Boone

Let's invade Elvis Presley's tomb

Kidnap, Hubert H. Humphrey's corpse

Send his skull in the mail for proof!

[Verse 2]

Kidnap, treasures like the Liberty Bell

Kidnap, owners of the oil wells

Kidnap, Rockefeller wives and kids

People's trial for what their husbands did

Kidnap, Stigpig and John Travolta

Make them watch their flicks revolt-a

Soon they'll go into convulsions

O.D. on plastic revulsion!

[Chorus]

Hey, hey, hey, hey!

Liberation for today!

Pay, pay, pay, pay!

Plenty money to be made!

[Verse 3]

So kidnap, newsmen and police

Keep them up many days and nights

Drug their minds at the factories

They'll sure be different when they're released

Kidnap bankers, kidnap doctors

Drive away with Amy Carter

Kidnap, Deborah Harry's Blondie dye

Kidnap, Nixon and watch him die

Kidnap!

Mutations of Today Lyrics

[Verse 1]

The Mexican monster babies are here

Are here in the USA

The Mexican monster babies are here

Are here in North America

Soon they will spread

To the USA

Land of the free

And the home of the brave

[Verse 2]

Have heads like frogs

They look like dogs

Their hearts hang out

Don't want them about

Bought five neat pills

From the man next door

He owns a drug store

He said take two of these

And you'll never get pregnant again

Don't know what they were

They look like M&M's

Maybe they were

In a month you were pregnant

You had a Mexican monster baby

Mutations of today

Mutations of the only mind

Flowing deep and not know why

Flowing deep, you might lose sight today

[Verse 3]

Thousands of new drugs come out each year

Some are tested some are not

Some are sold by fundy people

Some cure cancer, some do not

They create Mexican monster babies

They're coming to Juarez, El Paso

Utah, where the Mormons live, Arizona

[Outro]

Yes folks, that's right, you heard right

You can't afford to go to a [?] M.D. for birth control

Stop by your neighborhood drug store and pick up some new yellow pills with a funny name

Mexican monster baaaabies

Ooh

When, oh, why

Why me?

Rawhide Lyrics

[Intro: Spoken]

Goddamn, well, let's do a tune called "Rawhide," okay

Goddamn tape's rollin', let's go

[Intro]

Let's move 'em out!

One, two, three, four!

Aiiyeee[?], yee-haw!

[Verse 1]

Rolin', rollin', rollin'

Keep rollin', rollin', rollin'

Though the streams are swollen

Keep them doggies rollin'

[Chorus]

Rawhide, don't try to understand them

Just throw a rope and brand 'em

Soon, we'll be living high and wide

[Verse 2]

Movin', movin', movin'

Keep movin', movin', movin'

Though they're disapprovin'

Keep them doggies movin'

Rawhide

[Bridge]

Through rain and wind and weather

Hell-bent for leather

Wishin' my gal was by my side

All the things I'm missin'

Good vittles, love, and kissin'

Are waitin' at the end of my ride

[Outro]

Move 'em out, head 'em up, get 'em up

Rawhide

Cut 'em out, ride 'em in

Ride 'em in, cut 'em out

Cut 'em out, ride 'em in

Ride 'em in, Rawhide

(Rollin', rollin', rollin'

Rollin', rollin', rollin'

Rollin', rollin', rollin')

Rawhide! (Rollin', rollin', rollin'

Rollin', rollin', rollin'

Rollin', rollin', rollin')

California über alles Lyrics

[Verse 1]

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 Führer one day

I will command all of you

Your kids will meditate in school

[Chorus]

California über alles

Über alles, California

[Verse 2]

Zen fascists will control you

One-hundred percent 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

[Chorus]

California über alles

Über alles, California

[Bridge]

Now it is 1984

Knock-knock at your front door

It's the suede denim secret police

They have come for your uncool niece

Come quietly 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 croak, you little clown

When you mess with President Brown

[Chorus]

California über alles

Über alles, California

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Track Lyrics

Man With the Dogs Lyrics

Kepone Kids Lyrics

Forward to Death Lyrics

Kill the Poor Lyrics

Your Emotions Lyrics

Dreadlocks of the Suburbs Lyrics

I Kill Children Lyrics

Cold Fish Lyrics

Holiday in Cambodia Lyrics

Kidnap Lyrics

Mutations of Today Lyrics

Rawhide Lyrics

California über alles Lyrics