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[Verse 1] It's lights, places, camera, action Point-blank political assassination As usual the public tongue is in its rightful ear While insecure minds hold social fears Father figures patronize confused countries who realize They don't know what the hell they're talking about America, the living example of the idolizers' Doppler effect We can't prepare for or prevent war, we know that Twenty years ago he said "tell them Nixon's gone mad," And so they started to bomb everything they had [Chorus] Frustrated fireworks inside your head Left the fingerprints of shadows on the still-life dead Smokey temptations and lingerie pills Keep a large man wealthy in Beverley Hills Now they shut heavy metal mouths of lyrical obscenities All about sex and drugs and other affinities But that's exactly what they should be about [Verse 2] Religious safety shields and a political sex life While you hide the pictures of you and your ex-wife You take too many sleeping pills, you know what happens It's Christmas time, I find the scissors and the scotch The shaving cream attempts to stop the hands of the clock Innocent bystanders is a contradiction in terms And openness is a nonfiction word [Chorus] Petting our parachutes and purring cats Doing the breaststroke at night, waiting for something to snap Well we don't have one night stands, just excuses that we made Like we don't have education, just career hit-lists Hey John Mitchell, I hope you have a nice day The campus is beautiful out here at Kent State Now that it's quiet you can go about your business [Verse 3] So scalded science waits for intervention To bite the disease of separation Oblivious survivors will take one in three It's the great communicator which speaks silently [Chorus] We tried to ignore it for eighty months But do you realize what we have done? Was it because it was a normal or we thought it'd go away Like George Will, one of his better days So you fill out your tax form, W-4 And you know exactly what it's going for Give me one good reason why you do it [Outro] Baby Britain's mistress curses will fill the lines with missing persons Sixteen thousand in West Germany play Red Rover with the Pershing Three Play Red Rover with the Perishing Three Play Red Rover with the Perishing Three