The Sky is Falling and I Want My Mommy

Biafra- Vocals

Buttercup- Bass, Guitar

Mr. Right- Drums

Mr. Wrong- Guitar

Virus 85 Alternative Tentacles

1991

Falling Space Junk

Nuclear satellites

Thrown up in space

Will all burn out some day

Guess where they'll crash

We've been lucky so far

Every toy up there

Is another Chernobyl

Waiting to happen

Why?

Space shuttle blew up again

People drop dead

News says "DON'T WORRY"

Then the truth comes out

Since 1988

Every shuttle in space

Has carried 46

Pounds of plutonium

Why?

I don't know

I'm scared to care

Enough plutonium

That if it blows

The fallout cancer

Could kill 5 billion people

So now it's over

It's really over

Space junk in the street

Irradiated atmosphere

Fallout covers the earth

Greenhouse so hot we fry

Six months, maybe years

We all know we'll die

So - what matters now?

NOTHING matters now

Imagine what would happen

If everyone on earth

Realized this at once

Gonna go loot stores!

Piss anywhere!

Break into peoples houses

Play with their underwear

Strew all my prizes in the street

You can't take it with you

Nothing left to do

But go home

And bolt the doors

Why?

Let's curl up real close

And tell each other

All the things we still don't know

About our lives

Why?

Falling space junk in the streets

Radiation in the air

Nothing left that's safe to eat

The sky is melting

And I want my mommy.

Jesus was a Terrorist

Jesus was a terrorist

Enemy of the state

That's what the Romans labeled him

So he was put to death

He died for his beliefs

What's changed today?

Today bible-thumping cannibals

Reap money from his name

Buy cable networks & power

With old ladies' checks

If Jesus saw Pat Robertson

What do you think he'd say?

Tax-free they re-write our laws

And sick 'em on you

Women don't control their bodies

TV preachers do

Censor everything from bathing suits

To science books

From the schoolroom to the bedroom

They want our thoughts - or else

They treat us like the Romans

Used to treat the Christians

Even some churchgoing folks are scared

Modern catacombs of fear

Built with money, power and threats

Rock'n'roll is labeled porn

Sell a record, you're under arrest

Instead of fighting AIDS

They try to stop us having sex

They brag that they won't quit

Til they take dominion over our lives

Is freedom of speech such a terrorist act

Is spiritual peace such a satanic threat

Believe what you want

But we'll fight to keep

Our heads from being cemented in your sand.

Bruce’s Diary

On the top floor, from my penthouse

I survey what I rule

High rises

Thin curtains

All lights go out by two

No one ever sees me

Yet I know all of you

It's sort of like a small town

When your whole lives are on my computer

Ah... Ah...

All the power, none of the stress

So much better being hatchet man

Than a henpecked attention-starved target

Like the big man himself

Our goal is perpetual economic victory

We play with you to amuse ourselves

Our motives are personal

Our motives are political

Our motives are sexual

I know

Hi Ho Hi Ho Hi Ho

The laws we make for others

Don't apply to us

We do what we want

A lethargic population

Is the key to our control

Who'd rather watch someone's life on TV

Than participate in their own

Mentally they feel helpless

Physically they just give up

We priced the healthy food so high

They can only buy soda pop

A housebroken bee colony

That goes home after 5

Too burnt and glazed to threaten us

With purpose in their lives

Ah... Ah...

Ha Ha Ha

We drug their snacks at work

Mix hormones in kids lunch at school

Don't be a pill, it's good for you

The men grow up muscular

Short tempered and kinda dumb

The women develop those outrageous curves

The kind you only used to see

In the movies and magazines

We banned and rounded up for ourselves

Hi-Ho

It's off to do our work you go

We melt you with acid rain

Keep you poor for economic gain

Convince you your biggest threat

Is drugs and terrorists

They don't even have to be real

Just find a face, make up a crime

Run sensational headlines

Works every time

The people must not realize

They are being manipulated

For them to be manipulated effectively

We give 'em things to worry about

Buying clothes and losing weight

Your lack of curiosity

Is the key to our success

Your lack of curiosity is the key to our success

Hi Ho

Life's so simple and happy

When everything's clear.

Bad

(WORDS & MUSIC: HANSON BROTHERS. EXTRA WORDS: BIAFRA)

We're bad So bad

We're bad

I feel it in my heart

I believe it in my soul

But we will never live

Long enough to know

Restless and curious

Down in my gut I know

That I will never ever

Want what I am told

Cos

We're bad So bad

We're bad

Mama told me from the start

Got the same rap at school

Heard it so much that now

Guess I believe it too

Su guess what kinda crowd

I hang around with now

Being bad is better

Than being nothing at all

We're bad!

Ride the Flume

If I could travel back in time

I'd go to 1899

High in the Sierra Hills

And ride the lumber down the Sanger Flume

The Flume

Ride the Flume

Watch out for that tree

Forget log rides in amusement parks

This one's 50 miles long

Water slide with four foot sides

Down the mountain, 60 miles an hour

Drop through the Devil's Slide

Four thousand feet in 13 miles

Miss a curve, ya sail into space

Hope them 2 x 4's don't break

The Flume

Ride the Flume

Me and you

Va-va-voom!

Watch out for that tree

Watch out for that tree!

Around

To the sides of the cliffs we cling

The trestle creaks

As we're swept across the canyon

100 feet below

Rickety timbers - please don't fail me now

Oh no...

Watch out for that tree

Or its pine cone sex face first

For you and me.

Chew

Someone's dad passed out in the street

The wind-up key woker bees

Buzz right on by

At night he still lies

There 'cos nobody cares

Insects with briefcases ignore him

Been lying here for days

Not my problem, man

Look man, this is New York

Now the rats are coming to feed

Every night they bring more and more of their friends

Immune to rat poison, totally unafraid

And this is a very special treat indeed

They crawl up my pantleg / I'm too weak to move

No one hears my cries as they start on my toes

Their teeth are like razors as they gnaw at my hands

It sure beats McDonald's so get it while it lasts

Chew Devour

See the headline in the Post?

No one helped that old man for a week

They're homeless cos they wanna be

Let's talk about sports

Watch 'em tear that old building down

On the way home

But when a bulldozer pops the rubble like a pimple

Volcanoes of rats swarm all over us like bees

As big as a cat, not afraid to chase people

Or nibble on the wipers and vinyl roofs of cars

People are panicking, the cops have all fled

A shotgun will only kill one at a time

And it won't be the last time we run for our lives

From those teeth sinking into our arms and legs

Chew Devour

Mmm Mmm Good

City fathers see a bright future ahead

Where the poor no longer exist

Drive the neighborhood people away from their homes

Paint 'em over and quadruple the rent

Isolate the undesirables in places like Harlem

Our Sowetos without walls

If they won't go away

Cops smash their heads

Like they did in Tompkins Square

Those stories give me the creeps

I hope I didn't miss that last train

Some smart-ass plastered life-size pictures of rats

On the walls of the subway station

Funny joke

It's so quiet down here

It's a little too quiet down here

Who's that across the tracks

Smoldering eyes are glaring up at me

Inching closer and closer, almost laughing out loud

The train finally comes, but it won't even stop

Not here, not tonight

I'm off in an hour, I don't wanna get involved

With some guy in a suit fighting rats off his face

Just leave 'em to the night, they'll be gone the next day

Chew Devour

Sharks in the Gene Pool*

First the urine test - now this

First the urine test - now this!

Why do all the best technology advances

Always wind up in the worst possible hands

Through DNA analysis

We may one day conquer disease

A "perfect" baby every time

By mapping and manipulating people's genes

Cosmetic surgery before you're born

Know in advance what you'll die of

Everyone is useful and the same

Swimmers bred like horses for Olympic teams

Life insurance? Be serious!

You have to get your genes screened first

Toxic chemicals? Fumes at work?

No sweat! Get a gene transplant

Otherwise you'll lose your job

Do you wanna wind up out in the streets?

And raise your children in campgrounds and shelters?

And beg to eat

There's too many sharks in the gene pool

Too many chewed up bodies on the shore

Too many sharks in the gene pool

Too many leftovers rotting all around us

First the urine test - now this!

Why do the best technological advances

Keep winding up as...

Uniform hybrid species

For fresh-looking pest-proof food

An apple can sit on the shelf for years

When we irradiate the molecules

But where did the nutrition go?

And what's taken it's place?

Slipshod tampering with science

Out of control factory farm eugenics

Slaughterhouses in lowa

Filled with tumor-infested cows

Failed experiments hidden 'til sold

To your local school lunch program

Grade D, but edible

Our food, our life, our attitude

Suffocating in what we refuse to recycle

Time bombs fester in every town

Billions of dollars spent every year

Searching for a cure for cancer

Why not spend that money instead

To wipe out pollution that causes the cancer

There's too many sharks in the gene pool

Too many screw-ups washing on shore

Too many sharks in the gene pool

Too many preventable accidents among us

Meryl Streep... where are you?

Where did American know how go

Why do Japanese build better stereos

Is it 'cos our best minds can't get a job

Except when they help make toys for the Pentagon

Germ warfare, more bombs

Our whole economy's based on fear and death

How long can we get away with this?

And we live here

Instead of better health we get A.I.D.S.

Instead of nourishment we get steroids

The most popular selections at celebrity sperm banks

Are sports heroes

Gap widens between the haves and the have-nots

Rich and powerful breed only with themselves

We all know what happens when too much of this happens

The offspring just ain't real bright

How else can you explain

The erosion of talent and the vision thing

To the point where the best that they can come up with

For our future role models and leaders

Are vicious blind machines

Like Albert Gore and Dan Quayle

Why do the best solutions and advances

Get thrown away in the worst possible hands

There's too many sharks in the gene pool

Too many carcasses washing on shore

Too many sharks in the gene pool

Avalanche of toxic guts all around us

We're incompetent as human beings

Even worse at playing God

Wrong people

Right place

Ruling class

Gets the only pass

To board the Ark

For outer space

In 2001

What about this place?

The Myth is Real -Let’s Eat

In San Francisco you can be mayor at 18

But ya gotta be 26 to drive a cab

What goes on

Is not what we're told to see

Patrick Henry said "Give me liberty or death"

At the time he owned 65 slaves

The myth is real - Let's eat

Fake patriots say you can't burn the flag

But guess who whines the most

'bout having to pay taxes

To their country

Decay

Decline

Cover up

Refine

Dow Jones

Where's home

When everything we lean on

Is up for sale

Ad lady purrs, "Drink our liquor, you'll get laid"

Next billboard says, "Don't drink and drive"

What goes on is not what we're told to see

Panic! Panic! War on Drugs

But you can buy beer at gas stations

The Myth is Real - Let's Eat

Pagan priests first used perfume

To mask the smell of burning flesh

Back in ancient Rome

The statues were unscrewed

Leaders change - just replace the heads

Decay

Decline

Cover up

Refine

We are

In life

Roulette wheel

Or the ball inside

Anyone out there stopped to think

What our lives might be like today

If Karl Marx was as good a salesman

As Walt Disney

The bacon brought

You home to cook

The lobster lets

Itself get boiled

Looks too hard to climb

Out of the pot with all the crabs

Fear the unknown -

Who taught you that?

One hundred million trees a year

Get made into junk mail no one reads

What goes on is not what we're told to see

Half of all Americans don't read books

I'm one of them, but you're reading this

The Myth is Real - Let's Eat

General Robert E. Lee

Freed his slaves before Grant freed his

Brian Willson's legs

Severed by a train

The crew sues him for stress

Levis were once made of hemp *

From the marijuana plant

One acre makes four times more paper

Than an acre of trees

More protein than soy beans

Threat to logging companies

Du Pont and tobacco barons

Got it banned in '37

The world is made of connections

So many sheep in wolf's clothing

Scary times are never dull

How long before our empire falls

No one wants the Pentagon

Toilets for six hundred bucks

Japanese spend twice as much

On pinball as defense

Meanwhile concerned citizens

In Albany, Oregon

Try to ban a book

'Cos it makes fun of Santa Claus

We're told 80% of people like the President in the polls

While only 15% believe he's in control

And 64% of lowans surveyed

Want to be reincarnated as themselves

Wowee...

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