Jello Biafra with NoMeansNo - The Sky is Falling and I Want My Mommy Virus 85 Alternative Tentacles 1991 Biafra- Vocals Buttercup- Bass, Guitar Mr. Right- Drums Mr. Wrong- Guitar Falling Space Junk/Jesus was a Terrorist/Bruce's Diary/Bad/Ride the Flume/Chew/Sharks in the Gene Pool/The Myth is Real - Let's Eat 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 Out 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 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 Hi Ho 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 So bad We're bad So bad We're bad We're bad We're bad We're 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 So bad We're bad So bad We're bad We're bad We're bad We're 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 Ride 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 Ride the Flume Me and you Va-va-voom! Watch out for that tree Watch out for that tree! Around 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 Watch out for that tree Or it's 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 Chew Devour Chew Devour 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 Chew Devour Chew Devour 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 Chew Devour Chew Devour 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 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...