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Hear Hymn
01:52
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It’s a message from God (X3)
I say
It’s a message from God (X2)
So get down on your knees and pray
Hello, son. What’s going on?
Your God’s got a message for you
I need some cash and mighty fast
There’s something that I need you to do
Convert the heathens and take their funds
And give them all to me
Do as I say. They have to pay
No one said that religion was free
Honorable mentions and good intentions
Just aren’t good enough
We’ll never win the war on sin
Unless you hock my stuff
To avoid my hell, you’ll have to sell
My "God Saves" stickers and pins
And Jesus shirts couldn’t hurt
At bringing the profits in
CHORUS:
Preach to everyone, but teach to no one
Who can’t afford heaven’s price
Then condemn the masses in bible classes
For not buying the merchandise
Hock Watchtowers at all given hours
And to anyone you find on the streets
Tell them to fear my holy rapture
If they don’t slaves their lives to me
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2. |
Corporate Scam
01:41
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CHORUS:
Go to school
Go to work
Be another corporate jerk
Get a family
Get a job
Be a fucking corporate slob
Fuck your wife
Fuck your kids
Have an affair on a business trip
Fuck your house
With the tennis courts
Lose them all in a bad divorce
CHORUS:
All your money
All your stuff
With all you got you don’t have enough
It’s not enough
You still want more
So you lose yourself to booze and whores
CHORUS:
Feed your addictions
With more drugs
They’re the only ones you love
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3. |
NASAnimal Killers
01:40
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Two hundred thirty fish and a hundred and forty snails
Sent on a mission destined to fail
Fifteen hundred crickets and two hundred rats
Nothing deserves to die like that
NASA gave them all a final death sentence
Two thousand lives snuffed in a single experiment
To see the effects on life in outer space
But humans and animals aren’t the same
CHORUS:
What’s the use?
What’s to gain?
From vivisection
In outer space
A million dollars to kill some cricket
Another million bucks to kill some snails and fish
There are a million better uses for that money
And killing animals is not on that list
There are too many problems for us to face
To be exploiting animals in outer space
How can space exploration be justified
When we can’t even treat our animals right
CHORUS:
Putting an end to hunger and an end to pain
Makes a lot more sense than killing animals in space
Hooking an electrode to a fucking rats brain
Never did a single thing to save the human race
If a computer base with a million facts
Couldn’t tell you that humans aren’t rats
Than what could you possibly hope to gain?
By killing those animals in outer space
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4. |
Star 69
01:19
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The last time that I took a shower
I thought I heard the telephone ring
I grabbed a towel and headed out
To see whom the hell was calling me
I said "Hello." But I just heard clicks
I thought the line must have been dead
I guess I should have just hung up
But I called *69 instead
CHORUS:
What’s going on *69
Someone’s having a grand old time
Making practical jokes at my expense
I’m being crank called by the government
Some frazzled woman suddenly answered
But denied having used the phone
She said she couldn’t make out-side calls
Then I heard the dial tone
I tried *69 one more tome
And when the phone began to ring
Someone answered and hung up
Then I didn’t hear a thing
CHORUS:
I tried *69 one last time
But this time it didn’t work
An operator said "out of service"
Then I heard the clicks once more
Who really runs *69
Is it AT&T or the government?
And how come when I used it those times
I never got charged for it?
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5. |
The Crazy Lady
02:15
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My neighbor next door is the Crazy Lady
The voices in her head make her unsteady
Her schizophrenia and paranoia
Make her think we’re out to destroy her
She gets worked up and yells all day
She swears to God that she’ll make us pay
She thinks that we are plotting and reading her mail
And tapping her phones just to throw her in jail
CHORUS:
Crazy Lady, you think that maybe
You could stay in your own back yard
I know the voices won’t give your any choices
But you’re making my life really hard
She threatened my mom at our front door
She called her a bitch and a fucking whore
She yelled "Merry Christmas! It’s time to fight."
But my mom slammed the door and said "Goodnight."
This just seemed to tick her off even more
Now my family is her target in a personal war
One day she even tried to call the cops
And tell them that I hit her with a flowerpot
CHORUS:
I have no problem with the Crazy Lady
I guess I could get pissed off maybe
But I refuse to get mad and irate
I don’t want things to have to escalate
She already poisoned one of my cats
I don’t want to have to die like that
I’ll just let her and her voices be
I don’t want the Crazy Lady coming after me
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6. |
Hegemony
01:32
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CHORUS:
Hegemony from society
Tries to tell me what I’m supposed to be
Their opinions and institutions
Try to tell me what to believe in
Bosses and teachers, lawyers and preachers
Making a system that’s keeping us weaker
Faceless clones and mindless drones
Spreading apathy wherever they roam
CHORUS:
They use the police to keep us on our knees
They keep us oppressed and do as they please
They’re afraid we’ll unite. They’re afraid of a fight
They’re afraid. And they know that we’re right
Their patriotism and nationalism
Will wither in the face of anarchism
I won’t be like them. I won’t be lead by men
The only thing I’ll support is revolution
CHORUS:
I will live free. I will die free
I won’t stand for hegemony
Their values are really screwed
I’m gonna do just what I choose
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7. |
Duran Sirhan
02:06
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CHORUS:
Christian Duran
Was a gifted man
With a single vision in his head
His life was a prison
Dictated by Bill Clinton
So he wanted the president dead
He ditched his family
And drove to D.C.
Along with some ammo and some guns
He was a man on a mission
To fulfill his final vision
And hunt down Billy Clinton
At the White House gate
He just couldn't wait
For the appointed hour
So he took a chance
And without a glance
He let loose with a hot lead shower
CHORUS:
Chris never posed a threat
To the president
He was in Tahiti getting caught up
on his mail
But Christian Duran
Got busted by the man
Now he spends his life in jail
CHORUS:
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8. |
You Don't Own Me
01:32
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I’ll do what I want
I’ll be what I want
I’ll think what I want
You don’t own me
You’re not my fucking mom
You’re not my fucking dad
You’re not my fucking boss
You can’t control me
CHORUS:
You don’t own me
You can’t control me (X2)
Take your fucking job
And your tainted cash
And shove them up your ass
You don’t own me
I won’t be like you
I won’t think like you
I won’t act like you
You can’t control me
CHORUS:
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Silent death. Toxic rain
Biological fallout destroys everything
Nothing can survive the chemical bath
It kills everything lying in its path
Its Armageddon day (X2)
No more cops. No more crime
No more petty problems to plague mankind
This was the war to end all wars
There’s nobody left to fight any more
Happy birthday it’s been a year
So much has happened since you were first engineered
You used to be a common Anthrax
Now the Pentagon wants you for a chemical attack
They knew their virus could be much more
So they made you an agent in their chemical war
They made you stronger and much more deadly
And kept you cultured until you were ready
CHORUS:
Happy birthday. You’re dead. (X2)
The day you arrived on that petri dish
The lab boys knew you could grant their last wish
So they softened you up with radiation
And got your genes ready for manipulation
Its now a year later, and your time has come
To be dropped from above in a giant germ bomb
To level the entire battle field
By making everyone die after making them ill
CHORUS:
As loved ones fell to the deadly sickness
Predators robbed them for their meekness
There are no mutants in this brave new world
There is no bright new future for these lost boys and girls
What flag were they holding with so much pride?
As bombs were exploding and they burned from inside
What were they thinking as the bullets rang by
What courage did God give them when it came time to die?
Happy Birthday, you're gonna die!
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10. |
JJ The Wage Slave Whale
02:15
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CHORUS:
He’s J.J. the wage slave whale
Sea World has him in their jail
There they have him on display
You could see him but you got to pay
J.J. you were dynamite
Until something got a hold of you
And attracted you to the glimmering lights
Along the shoreline of Malibu
CHORUS:
No one knew what to do
So they called Sea World, and they arrested you
Then they kept you in their prison
And we could see you for the price of admission
Just like your pal Shamu
Don’t you know you’re a big scam too?
There are no happy endings in the zoo
Sea World is gonna be the death of you
CHORUS:
The last joke was held for you
You really socked it to the zoo
They can’t find you any more
Because your tracking device now lies on the ocean floor.
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11. |
Hump America...
01:54
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Fuck America for which it stands
Spreading nationalism to foreign lands
Sending troops to die on distant shores
Fuck America for neglecting its poor
CHORUS:
Fuck AmericaÑthe red white and blue
Fuck AmericaÑfor Nazis like you
Fuck AmericaÑand fascist hate crimes
Fuck America and fuck white pride
I have no pride in the fourth of July
I have no pride in the veterans who died
I have no pride in the Vietnam wall
I find no pride in America at all
CHORUS:
Fuck the American revolution
Two hundred years gone and no solutions
Our troubles are worse than when they began
I’m ashamed to be called an American
America has a proud tradition
Of killing people in the name of religion
In God we trust to rape, kill, and maim
Fuck America again and again
CHORUS:
Fuck America the land of pain
Fuck America the home of the insane
Fuck America the land of the brave
Fuck America. Don’t be a slave
CHORUS:
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12. |
...And Your Buddha Too
02:05
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The man at the temple
Said Buddha was the way
Just get down on your knees
And do what I say
But I was raised a Catholic
So I know the scam
I’ll never bow again
To a pale fat man
The only higher power
That I need is myself
No age old superstition
Ever gave me any help
I don’t need a religious
Imposed morality
The only one who’s gonna
Live my life is me
It’s not reincarnation
That makes me a vegetarian
I don’t eat meat
Because I know it’s right
I don’t have to be told
By some spiritual guide
No fear of afterlife
Is gonna keep me in line
I don’t love murders
Or relish in death
Not because of some book
Filled with empty threats
So fuck your Buddha
And fuck your Jesus
Fuck your Hari Krishna
And what ever you believe in
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13. |
OC Scene II
02:52
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A heritage of orange trees
And exploiting cows at local dairies
Now gangs and skinheads are all I see
From Disneyland to Huntington Beach
The Irvine Company has no pride
In the ancient history of the countryside
They want the canyons as their prize
And make a fortune as the county dies
CHORUS:
O.C. scene
Open your eyes, again
See the green
Litmus Green
Cinco de Mayo at Knott’s Berry Farm
Rick Dees out there causing harm
Lures kids to riot in the street
Gets freaked out and calls the police
The cops just ruin everyone’s fun
They bust up parties and arrest everyone
No standing. No sitting. No skating. No spitting.
NO LIFE!!!
CHORUS:
The Crystal Cathedral
Lures them in
Convinces them all
That they’ll go to Heaven
Reverend Schuller
Hits his head
And yells at some
Airline stewardess
CHORUS:
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14. |
I Love Tofu
14:20
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I can’t stand the sight of meat
That’s why tofu is such a treat
It’s good for you and it saves lives
And animals would have to die otherwise
I can’t stand the sight of beef
Cut up meat and served to me
I won’t eat what killers do
I prefer to eat tofu
I like tofu when it’s raw
Served on toast with a dash of salt
But the tofu dish I really like
Is fried in peanut sauce with a dash of Spike
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Litmus Green Los Angeles, California
So Cal punk rock since 1991.
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