Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegitables

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... 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 gonna kill kill kill kill kill the poor tonight behold the sparkle of champagne the crime rate's gone feel free again o' 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 and dance away the night while they kill kill kill kill kill the poor tonight

i don't need your way of life i can't stand your attitudes i can do without your strife i don't need this fucking world i don't need this fucking world this world brings me down gag with every breath this world brings me down i'm looking forward to death it seems so unreal to me so much hate and so mouch pity i can't take another day it's such a bore it gets me really sore i don't need this fucking world i don't need this fucking world this world brings me down gag with every breath this world brings me down i'm looking forward to death looking forward to death

are you believing the morning papers? war is coming back in style there's generals here, advisors there and russians nibbling everywhere the chessboard's filling up with red we make more profits when we blow off their heads economy is looking bad let's start another war when ya get drafted fan the fires of racist hatred we want total war when ya get drafted drooling fingers panic buttons playing with missiles like they're toys there's easy money, easy jobs especially when you build the bombs that blow big cities off the map just guess who profits when we build 'em back up yeah, what big business wants big business gets it wants a war when ya get drafted trilateral commission goonies laugh and scheme for more when ya get drafted call the army! call the navy! stocked with kids from slums when ya get drafted if you can't afford a slick attorney we might make you a spy forget your demonstrations kids today sit on their ass when ya get drafted just a six-pack and you're happy we're prepared for when ya get drafted

the landlord's here to visit they're blasting disco down below sez, "i'm doubling up the rent cos the building's condemned you're gonna help me buy city hall" but we can, you know we can but we can, you know we can let's lynch the landlord man i tell them 'turn on the water' i tell 'em 'turn on the heat' tells me 'all you ever do is complain' then they search the place when i'm not here but we can, you know we can let's lynch the landlord let's lynch the landlord let's lynch the landlord man there's rats chewin' up the kitchen roaches up to my knees turn the oven on, it smells like dachau, yeah til the rain pours thru the ceiling but we can, you know we can let's lynch the landlord man

i don't want to think don't make me care i wanna melt in with the group i need the balls to leap out of my shell and let go with my friends can't come up with anything i want to do i need a project i can finish my brain needs some stimulation drug me drug me drug me drug me drug me i'm so fucking tired i gotta stay awake i'm runnin' late i gotta make it thru the day and make my time go by tv and the stereo and girls are lots of fun i want the max i relate better loaded 'gotta see that movie stoned' drug me drug me drug me drug me drug me with natural vitamin c drug me with pharmaceutical speed drug me with your sleeping pills drug me with your crossword puzzles drug me with your magazines drug me with your fuck machines with a fountain of fads more rock and roll ads drug me drug me drug me me me finally off of work unwind and watch the ball game at the bar another potato chip weekend is here at last go away go away go away go away go away leave me alone so i can't see myself drug me drug me drug me

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 your school told you this and your church told you that memorize this and don't you dare look at that just a tape recorder mimicking of the bores you're so boring boring boring always tape machine recording you're so boring boring boring i've heard all this before 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 you're so boring boring boring always tape machine recording you're so boring boring boring i've heard all this before i've heard all this before i've heard all this before your emotions make you a monster your emotions make you a monster your emotions make you a monster your emotions make you a monster

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, lemme see you seethe 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....................... chorus

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 california über alles über 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 über alles über 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 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 california über alles über alles california

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 so your're in the kids' ward you're in there cos you're ill how about some pavulon so i can see you chill time to hit the scool bus i think i'll shoot the tires offer them a helping hand of open telephone wires ever wanted to die? of course you have but i won't till i get my revenge 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 so i kill children i love to see them die i kill children and make their mamas cry i bang their heads in doors i kill children can hardly wait for yours.

we ain't going to the party we ain't going to the game we ain't going to the disco ain't gonna cruise down main we're stealing people's mail stealing people's mail stealing people's mail on a friday night drivin' in the mountains winding 'round and 'round rummage thru your mailboxes take your mail back to town and we got license plates, wedding gifts, tax returns checks to politicians from real estate firms money, bills and cancelled checks pretty funny pictures of your kids we're gonna steal your mail on a friday night we're gonna steal your mail by the pale moonlight we got grocery sackful after grocery sackful after grocery sackful after grocery sackful after grocery sackful after grocery sackful of the private lives of you ha ha people say that we're crazy we're sick and all alone but when we read your letters we're rolling on the floor we got more license plates, wedding gifts, tax returns checks to politicians from real estate firms money, bills and cancelled checks we cut relationships with your friends we're gonna steal your mail on a friday night we're gonna steal your mail by the pale moonlight we better not get caught we'll be dumped in institutions where we'll be drugged and shocked 'til we come out born-again christians

sunny sunday at the amusement park see the fat kids spill their pop oh babe-lots of flags and balloons but someone sabotaged the rollercoaster last night ran a turn and then it smashed right down thru the crowded haunted house below oh no human hamburger no and it's crushed little kids crushed little kids crushed little kids adorn the boardwalk see the tourists drop their jaws and cones see the owners smell a big lawsuit oh police! (call your lawyer first) make the witnesses go home and they'll turn on the tv and see the crushed little kids adorn the boardwalk.

in a desperate mind little gardens grow they grow very wide they grow very tall why am i alive urban wonderland by the fence i stand in and out of hand there are many paths dripping dark so dense do not enter here enter over there people closing in barking at my mind shoving me to wine i want all alone i want my own home i want my own girl help me hate the world own and love my life

so you 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 niggers feel cold and the slums got so much soul it's time to taste what you most fear right guard will not help you here brace yourself, my dear... 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 you're a star-belly sneech you suck like a leach 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 now you can go where people are one now you can go where they get things done what you need, my son.... is a holiday in cambodia where people dress in black a holiday in cambodia where you'll kiss ass or crack pol pot, pol pot, pol pot, pol pot, etc.... and it's a holiday in cambodia where you'll do what you're told a holiday in cambodia where the slums got so much soul

twilight city gonna set my soul it's gonna set my soul on fire got a whole lot of money that's ready to burn so get those stakes up high there's a thousand pretty women waiting out there they're all waiting, they'll never make air and i'm just the devil with a lung to spare, so viva las vegas viva las vegas viva las vegas how i wish that there were more than the 24 hours in the day even if i ran out of speed, boy i wouldn't sleep a minute of the way oh that blackjack and poker and the roulette wheel i'll poach your money lost on every deal all you need is sonar and nerves of steel, so viva las vegas viva las vegas viva las vegas viva las vegas where the neon signs flash your name the one-arm bandits cash in all soap's down the drain viva las vegas turning day into nighttime turning night into daytime if you see it once you'll never be the same again gotta keep on running gonna have me some money if it costs me my very last dime if i wind up broke then i'll always remember that i had a swingin' time oh, i'm gonna give it everything i've got lady luck's with me the dice stay hot got coke up my nose to dry away the snot so viva las vegas viva las vegas viva las vegas viva viva las vegas