I bet Annie Aronburg knows this song - where are you, we miss you!
This song still speaks for me:
Jello Biafra wrote:
Full Metal Jackoff (Jello Biafra & DOA, 1989)
(start crazy guitars, all the way through for a quarter hour)
Around our nation's capital there's a freeway eight lanes wide
like concrete ringed around the city for those who want inside
get on - get off - ignore everything to the sides
you mix - i drive
while homeboy's in the back of the van making drugs
what a high to drive a crack lab - just put it in plain sight
only stop to refuel alone - more poison to tear more lives apart
whole neighborhoods are going psycho - gang wars like never before
better lock your doors, buy some guns, and pray for martial law
On the washington dc beltway
around and round i go
in a black van with no windows
and a chimney puffing smoke
running headlines in the news each day - crying crisis everywhere
so Bush comes in so easy - it's as though someone wants it bad
It'd be a little obvious to fence off all the slums
So have machine guns pour into the projects
and watch them kill each other off.
It's genocide when the only hope for the young
is to join the army or slowly die.
Wall Street or Crack Dealer Avenue -
the last roads left of the American dream
Wall Street or Crack Dealer Avenue
Wall Street or Crack Dealer Avenue
Only one road leads to this neighborhood
little kids wanna sell drugs when they grow up
but folks just might get a little upset
if they knew where that dope comes from
from Colombia - to the Contras -
to our Air Force bases where we trade them for guns
with a moral equivalent of a serial killer
and his CIA friends calling shots from the white house
but now that we own the media too - no story, just the man
ooooooooooh
On the Washington DC beltway - around and round I go
in a black van with no windows - and a chimney puffing smoke
seeing ganglands smoke like vietnam - ain't got no reason to fear
Just get a vice president so dumb
The crook at the top never gets engaged
ooooooooooooh
that sure was easy, wasn't it?
that sure was easy, wasn't it?
more crack
more panic
more cops
more jails
you see emergency - total war
you see emergency - total war
you see a black face - you see a crackhead
you see a black face - you see a crackhead
you see a black face - you see Willy Horton with a knife
you see Willy Horton - -with a knife!
You've seen one Willy Horton, you've seen them all
and everywhere i know
you asked for it - you got it
drug suspects have no rights at all
property seized is sold before trial
labor camps on american soil
neo nazi boot boys - that the cops never seem to arrest
prowling neighborhoods with baseball bats
why do they get so much press?
Mein Kampf - the mini-series - Oliver North, patriotic hero!
The leader of tomorrow is yours today
time they got you psyched for a police state!
On the washington dc beltway - around and round i go
in a black van with no windows - and a chimney puffing smoke
my vans are more all over now - because of bodies you never see
just like in Chile or Guatemala - people just seem to disappear
oooooooooooooh - -aaaaaaaaaahh
Just like Rome, we fell asleep when we got spoiled
there's no human rights in the rest of the world
you might as well lose your own
as the noose of narco-militarism - tightens around our necks
we worry about burning flags
and tv shows - and work to keep our jobs
but if someone came for you one night - and dragged you away
do you really think your neighbors would even care?
do you really think your neighbors would even care?
(marching)
embrace our red white and blue reich
embrace our red white and blue reich
embrace our red white and blue reich
embrace our red white and blue reich
embrace our red white and blue reich
embrace our red white and blue reich...
(crowd chants)
Ollie - for president - to get things done
Ollie - for president - to get things done
Ollie - for president - to get things done
Ollie - for president - to get things done
Ollie - for president - to get things done
Ollie - for president - to get things done
Ollie - for president - to get things done...
Album version:
On Youtube for other versions, including live:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJMP0FEz51U
