2020 [mutant elektro] - Novato CA 4 November 2002
It's the year 2020
We live in the land of good'n'plenty
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[chorus:]
And the watchers are everywhere, everywhere
And they protect us, protect us
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We're protected from the terrorists
And from the goddam environmentalists [chorus]
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The streets are always safe at night
No matter how many heretics y'have to fight [chorus]
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Y'always know what's safe to say
And the sea's on fire far, far, far away [chorus]
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So we cry a million tears
And everyone who pisses us off, disappears [chorus]
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There's a show of art woven into pantyhose
But they charge us so much to go and look at those [chorus]
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Nice decorative electrodes in my brain
All I need is the right encoding to go insane, go insane [chorus]
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Yes it's the beautiful year 2020
We live in the land of good'n'plenty [chorus]
LOCKED AWAY [funky bluesy] - San Rafael CA 5 November 2002
O they sent him to prison
For a crime that wasn't his'n, yes
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[chorus:] They locked him away, away, away
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He told his story
To that brain-dead jury, and [chorus]
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Got eighty years in jail
Turnin' chalky'n'pale, and [chorus]
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Now he's building little churches
For some holy cockroaches, well [chorus]
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Got a three-strikes case
'Cause of someone else's face, and [chorus]
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Yeah, there's nothin' so awful bad
As forever at Soledad, well [chorus]
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Now don't think this story's thru
It could happen to you, yes
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They'll lock you away, away, away, away, away...
ART ART ART [autobahnish] - Volcano CA 6 November 2002
Colored art that feels like fungus
A decorative disease, like crabs
Little critics drawing your blood
Everything's so fabulous
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Charcoal art on the roof of my mouth
My tongue must be part of the concept
Wriggling in dynamic waves
Magical reality from the South [inside]
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Complex art in four dimensions
Artists committing suicide
Death is part of the performance
Interpreting the cold equations
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Pastel art that sells to tourists
Leaning against the barriers
Is it art or is it garbage?
Depends on what you risk
GONNA SHOOT ELVIS [rappish] - Volcano CA 6 November 2002
Don't ask me what ya want me ta do
[chorus:] I'm gonna shoot Elvis, gonna shoot Elvis
Don't show me where the dreams fade away [chorus]
Don't tell me who ya want me ta kill [chorus] [inst]
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Everyone has to take a chance [chorus]
Everyone has to pretend to dance [chorus]
Every guy has a snake in his pants [chorus] [inst]
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I love the flames crawling over the hills [chorus]
I love those multicolored pills [chorus]
I love the way you stare at me [chorus] [inst]
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Every bullet's a universe [chorus]
Every love's a fantasy [chorus]
You always meant so much to me [chorus] [inst]
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Don't ask me what ya want me ta say [chorus]
Don't show me where the fantasies go [chorus]
Don't tell me why they have to die [chorus] [inst]
I WENT TO SEE YOU AT THE MUSEUM [acoustic] - Volcano CA 9 November 2002
I went to see you at the museum
You were well-displayed in vitrine
You were well-preserved
You were well-preserved
Your heart was open and glossy
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I went to see you at the museum
In a special diorama
You looked so natural
You looked so natural
Like poverty in Alabama
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I went to see you at the museum
When Muslims blew up Washington
Security was so tight
Security was so tight
The transit wasn't running
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I went to see you at the museum
Your memory is haunting
Engraved in my heart
Engraved in my heart
Like King Tut or maybe Zion
The Cemetary, The Cemetary [bolero] - Windsor CA 19 November 2002
Parked across from the cemetary
(From the cemetary, from the cemetary)
Reading 'bout Frida Kahlo
And it's such a nice day
After the meteors
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Sitting across from the cemetary
(From the cemetary, from the cemetary)
Hot-air balloons overhead
Waiting for shops to open
Waiting to be dead
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Looking over the cemetary
(By the cemetary, by the cemetary)
Flags wiggling in breezes
Not a cloud in the sky
No infections disease
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Fenced out of the cemetary
(By the cemetary, by the cemetary)
Gravel trucks roll by
Moving tons of Planet Earth
Beneath corporate jets
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[instrumental]
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Welcome to the cemetary
(By the cemetary, by the cemetary)
Welcome to tomorrow
Welcome to today
Welcome to now
YET [arhythmic/electro] - Novato CA 21 November 2002
The sky is turning blue
With little puffy clouds
Big white houses hanging on the hills
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[chorus:] Yet, yet, yet, yet...
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There's people walking by
On both sides of the field
Wild turkeys haven't come out today [chorus]
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The leaves are turning gold
The wind is from the east
I haven't shot any jogging executives [chorus]
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Security guy is balding
I'm nodding at his stories
We'll prob'ly both walk away from this [chorus]
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Nobody's the persecutor
Nobody's the victim either
Nobody's the rescuer, not in this game [chorus]
The LET'S BOMB IRAQ Polka [jaunty polka w/kazoo] - San Rafael-Richmond CA 18 December 2002
It's CHRISTmas, we're unHAPpy, And the EConOMy's CRAPpy
So let's BOMB Iraq, let's go and BOMB Iraq
There's terror in the headlines, And those ever-growing breadlines
So let's BOMB Iraq, let's go and BOMB Iraq
Bombing cures so many ills, it's better than those yellow pills
It's better than those thrills we get from crack
The passions are a-boiling, and besides we need the oil
So let's BOMB Iraq, let's go and BOMB Iraq
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Korea's got some nukes, but we can't mess with those pukes
We gotta BOMB Iraq, it's time to BOMB Iraq
We just can't attack, someone who could fight back
So now let's BOMB Iraq, we gotta BOMB Iraq
Bombing's fully justified, look how many haven't died
Cause last time, we didn't zap Baghdad
The world all thinks we're crazy, but we can't ignore our destiny
Let's BOMB Iraq, we've gotta BOMB Iraq
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[kazoo solo]
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Condy thinks it's vital, and when she gets mad, she's frightful
So let's BOMB Iraq, she wants to BOMB Iraq
The PENtagon is ALL ablaze to REturn to those GLOry days
SO BOMB Iraq, it's time to BOMB Iraq
[kazoo solo]
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We gotta lotta weapons and a dictator to step on,
So let's BOMB Iraq, we need to BOMB Iraq
Saddam was once our friend but that chapter's at end
So now let's BOMB Iraq, we're gonna BOMB Iraq
We're threatened like the Deevil by that old Axis of Evil
And our lies are all unraveling and black
So come on, Armageddon, it's our first step into Heaven
Go and BOMB Iraq, we're gonna BOMB Iraq
We're gonna BOMB - I - raq (boom boom boom boom)
WHY CAN'T WE JUST BE FRIENDS? [salsa] - Forestville CA 20 December 2002
[instrumental intro - 4 lines]
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Well she SAID that she felt LUCKY
But she DIDN'T want a BABY then
She SAID she couldn't FOCK me, and
She SAID she couldn't SAVE me
So I ASKED her for a HAND job
And she ASKED me for a HUN-dred, and
I SAID that's way BEYOND me, so
Why CAN'T we just be FRIENDS?
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[instrumental - 7 lines]
Why CAN'T we just be FRIENDS?
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Then she LOOKED me in the EYE,
She said, *I* don't want to DIE
But how CAN we live for-EVER
In this FILTHY rotten WEATHER
And so WE escaped the EARTH-quakes
And WE escaped the SMOG [smog]
And she SAID, I feel much BETTER now,
I'll MAKE my peace with GOD
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[instrumental - 7 lines]
Why CAN'T we just be FRIENDS?
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There's tor-NADOES in the SUBURBS
And [some] FIRE on the HORIZON
And EVERY-where I LOOK,
The DISASTERS never end!
But we STILL cannot be LOVERS
'Cause I CAN'T afford a HOVER-craft
FORWARD in-to THE past, oh
Why CAN'T we just be FRIENDS?
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[instrumental - 7 lines]
Why CAN'T we just be FRIENDS?
WE WISH YOU A [techno-carol] - Volcano CA 21 December 2002
We wish you a Merry XMas (3x)
And Armageddon soon!
We wish you a Happy Ramadan (3x)
And death to the Jews!
Hairy Krishna, Hairy Krishna (3x)
Let's test-fire some nukes!
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We wish you a Merry XMas (3x)
Let's go stomp some queers!
We wish you a Kool Kwanzaa (3x)
Now gimmee more beer!
A swingin' Saturnalia (3x)
Take your clothes off here!
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We wish you a Merry XMas (3x)
And an ArchBishop's bite!
We wish you a Happy Hanukkah (3x)
And bombs when it's light!
Go with the Great Spirit (3x)
And gamble all night!
DYSFUNCTIONAL XMAS [lilting carol] - Jackson CA 23 December 2002
It's two days before XMas
My RV's stuck in the snow
The tow-truck's bells are jingling, jingling
The highway sirens are jangling, jangling
The fuzzy dice are dangling, dangling
In the tow-truck's rear window
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[chorus:] So have a dysfunctional XMas
And maybe survive the new year (year)
And maybe survive the new year (year)
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It's one day before XMas
The sun is pouring down
The roadside slush is melting, melting
The carolers are belting, belting
Thru loudspeaker on their S.U.V.
As they run over my new XMas tree [chorus]
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And now it's XMas day
I can't take it any more
Pour me another 'nog
Pour me another 'nog
Pour me another 'nog
And won't someone shoot that dog? [chorus]
DREAMTIME [calypso] - Novato CA 31 December 2002
I grew up at Disneyland
Tom Sawyer's Island and Tomorrowland
It all seems so much smaller now
Like something that I lost [chorus]
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[chorus:]
It never rains in Southern California
Sulphuric acid filters thru the smog
It never rains in Southern California
And what part of this can you believe?
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I grew up at the Berry Farm
Ghost Town and the Mission Trail
It all seems so much smaller now
Lost somewhere in dreaming [chorus]
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I grew up in Motorland
Under the dying smogberry trees
It all seems so much smaller now
Like something I shouldn't have [chorus]
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I grew up in Futureworld
With all synthetic memories
It all seems so much smaller now
Just about what I can expect [chorus]
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[coda:]
Living down in Motorland
Living down in Dreamtime
Living down in Rotorland
Spinning like a top, yes I'm
Spinning like a top, yes I'm
Spinning like a top, [thud]
[repeat...]
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