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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