Interpret:

Jello Biafra

Album:

The Sky Is Falling And I Want My Mommy

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...