MEDIA CRETINS
Beam down to our digital planet
Powered by ten billion channels
Civilization stands its ground
Streaming life with CD sound!
You can be your own teevee
Babylon, we guarantee
Data-fix for devotees
“Eat ‘em up, and spit ‘em out!”
Media cretins have no point-of-view!
Media cretins don’t know what to do!
There’s so much to hear and see!
Cyber-lobotomies for free!
A drop and click society!
Web oligarchy fee or flee!
You can be your own teevee
Data-fix for devotees
“Eat ‘em up, and spit ‘em out!”
Media cretins have no point-of-view!
Media cretins don’t know what to do!
Silent majority, casualty
Brainwashed sobriety
Schizophrenia, apathy
DOLE BLUDGER
The ‘Boomers are retiring and they’re handing us the bill
Credit cards and mortgages, they’ve borrowed to the hilt
One child out of three lives in poverty
The Land of Milk and Honey seems a fantasy
Dole bludger: “Get out of the way!”
Dole bludger: “You’ve had your say!”
Dole bludger: “There’s hell to pay!”
Yeah, yeah! Can we pick up the pieces and try to move on?
Fraudulent expenses... who let it get this way?
They ride the gravy train, and guess who has to pay?
Seems like the system is going down the tubes
If you ask the government, they don’t know what to do!
Dole bludger: “Can’t seize the day!”
Dole bludger: “Rich weeds make hay!”
Dole bludger: “The hell you say!”
Yeah, yeah! Can we pick up the pieces and try to move on?
Instead of promoting the American Dream
We seem to be revealing just another scheme
A ship-of-state drifting in Chapter Eleven
Living hand-to-mouth is not my brand of heaven!
Dole bludger: “The vultures at bay...
Dole bludger: “Give the lie of the lay!”
Dole bludger: “There’s hell to pay!”
Yeah, yeah! Can we pick up the pieces and try to move on?
MORAL MAJORITY
Moral majority
Right-wing minority
No authority
“To run my life!”
Antiabortion lips say pro-life
Assassinating doctors don’t seem right
Pedaling pornography, crucifying gays
Is their piety just a charade?
Christian coalition getting Jesus irate
For polemicizing Church and State
Stern politicians, trickle-down profane
Cockfights, heresy, and ultramontane!
PANIC IN THE CITY!
Travesty of government: Of the people, for the people
They prefer a parade to the real scheme
Let the public in on their schemes and machinations
Harboring a prejudice against their secrecy!
Seven years of famine after seven years of plenty
Did you plan ahead? No, you didn’t save a penny
They’re cleaning out the bank vaults
You’re really in a hole
Mortgaging the promised land, you’ve got nowhere to go!
Oi, oi, oi, oi! Panic in the city!
Oi, oi, oi, oi! Panic in the city!
Oi, oi, oi, oi! Panic in the city!
Oi, oi, oi, oi! Panic in the city!
Tools for delay and their obfuscation
Showing up themselves just to be scofflaws
Dangerous enemies of popular government
Bald-faced audacity, rewriting reprimands!
Seven years of famine after seven years of plenty
Did you plan ahead? No, you didn’t save a penny
They’re cleaning out the bank vaults
You’re really in a hole
Mortgaging the promised land, you’ve got nowhere to go!
Oi, oi, oi, oi! Panic in the city!
Oi, oi, oi, oi! Panic in the city!
Oi, oi, oi, oi! Panic in the city!
Oi, oi, oi, oi! Panic in the city!
RECORDED 27 NOVEMBER 1999 - RELEASED 23 JULY 2000
