Stars & Stripes Of Corruption Lyrics - Frankenchrist - Dead Kennedys

Finally got to Washington in the middle of the night 

I couldn't wait 

I headed straight for the Capitol Mall 

My heart began to pound 

Yahoo! It really exists 

The American International Pictures logo 

I looked up at that Capitol Building 

Couldn't help but wonder why 

I felt like saying "Hello, old friend" 

Walked up the hill to touch it 

Then I unzipped my pants 

And pissed on it when nobody was looking 

Like a great eternal Klansman 

With his two flashing red eyes 

Turn around he's always watching 

The Washington monument pricks the sky 

With flags like pubic hair ringed 'round the bottom 

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The symbols of our heritage 

Lit up proudly in the night 

Somehow fits to see the homeless people 

Passed out on the lawn 

So this is where it happens 

The power games and bribes 

All lobbying for a piece of ass 

Of the stars and stripes of corruption 

Makes me feel so ashamed 

To be an American 

When we're too stuck up to learn from our mistakes 

Trying to start another Viet Nam 

Like fiddling while Rome burns at home 

The Boss says, "You're laid off. Blame the Japanese" 

"America's back," alright 

At the game it plays the worst 

Strip mining the world like a slave plantation 

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No wonder others hate us 

And the Hitlers we handpick 

To bleed their people dry 

For our evil empire 

The drug we're fed 

To make us like it 

Is God and country with a band 

People we know who should know better 

Howl, "America riles. Let's go to war!" 

Business scams are what's worth dying for.FUCK! 

Are the Soviets our worst enemy? 

We're destroying ourselves instead 

Who cares about our civil rights 

As long as I get paid? 

The blind Me-Generation 

Doesn't care if life's a lie 

so easily used, so proud to enforce 

The stars and stripes of corruption 

Let's bring it all down! 

Let's bring It all down! 

Let's bring it all down, down, down, down, down, down! 

Tell me who's the real patriots 

The Archie Bunker slobs waving flags 

Or the people with the guts to work 

For some real change? 

Rednecks and bombs don't make us strong 

We loot the world, yet we can't even feed ourselves 

Our real test of strength is caring 

Not the war toys we sell the world 

Just carry on, thankful to be farmed like worms 

Old glory for a blanket 

As you suck on your thumbs 

Real freedom scares you 

'Cause it means responsibility 

So you chicken out and threaten me 

Saying, "Love it or leave it" 

I'll get beat up if I criticize it 

You say you'll fight to the death 

To save your useless flag 

If you want a banana republic that bad 

Then why don't you go move to one 

But what can just one of us do? 

Against all that money and power 

Trying to crush us into roaches? 

We don't destroy society in a day 

Until we change ourselves first 

From the inside out 

We can start by not lying so much 

And treating other people like dirt 

It's easy not to base our lives 

On how much we can scam 

And you know 

It feels good to lift that monkey off our back 

I'm thankful I live in a place 

Where I can say the things I do 

Without being taken out and shot 

So I'm on guard against the goons 

Trying to take my rights away 

We've got to rise above the need for cops and laws 

Let kids learn communication 

Instead of schools pushing competition 

How about more art and theater instead of sports? 

People will always do drugs 

Let's legalize them 

Crime drops when the mob can't price them 

Budget's in the red 

Let's tax religion 

No one will do it for us 

We'll just have to fix ourselves 

Honesty ain't all that hard 

Just put Rambo back inside your pants 

Causing trouble for the system is much more fun 

Thank you for the toilet paper 

But your flag is meaningless to me 

Look around, we're all people 

Who needs countries anyway? 

Our land, I love it too 

I think I love it more than you 

I care enough to fight 

For the stars and stripes of corruption 

Let's bring it all down! 

Let's bring it all down! 

Let's bring it all down! 

If we don't try 

If we just lie 

If we can't find 

A way to do it better than this 

Who will?