Artist: Dead Kennedys
Album: Bedtime for Democracy 1986
Song: TRIUMPH OF THE SWILL 08
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TRIUMPH OF THE SWILL
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 / Dance your problems away / Cheap escape to that mind-control beat / Mellow out - Life’s too hard / You don’t even want to think / See the macho cock-rock metal heroes / Vomit fire out of their big mouths / Shake your fists obediently / Make Leni Riefenstahl real proud / 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 / Like Bing Crosby before them / Too idiotic to be real / You want it loud? / We’ll make sure it goes nowhere / So you won’t get ideas / Chorus: Triumph of the swill / Triumph of the swill / Triumph of the swill / Triumph of the swill / 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 / 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 / So what do we get / Christian censorship and taxed blank tapes / Shoppers strung out on our false hopes / Will flock to obey / (Chorus)