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Devo
Hardcore Devo: Volume Two
I Been Refused

TRACK

I Been Refused

Release date: 23rd August 1991

From Hardcore Devo: Volume Two

About This Track

"I Been Refused" is a track by Devo, from the album Hardcore Devo: Volume Two, released 23rd August 1991. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Devo.

About the Artist

Devo

Devo

Lyrics

I Been Refused

Sitting after supper

Watched the FBI

I asked for a cigarette

I got no reply

Then you dropped your culottes

Revealing rubber underpants

Sweat was forming in my shoes

But you ended our romance

I been refused

I lost my shoes

Last Monday morning

Minus twenty degrees

Walked to unemployment

On my knees

Left without my money

Tried to make my trial

Judge said you're the porno king

Go to jail for a while

I been refused

I lost my shoes

Bought a Kodak Brownie

Developed film at home

Took some shots of sister

Pants were full of foam

Took a couple back views

Took some up front

Three tries, wallet size

I was looking at that cunt, but

I been refused

I lost my shoes

Went topless bowling

Tried to get some stuff

It was a lesbo love scene

Strictly treat 'em rough

Everything created

Under earth and sky

Wants to be mated

It must couple or must die, but

I been refused

I lost my shoes

I been refused

I lost my shoes

Sitting after supper

Watched the FBI

I asked for a cigarette

I got no reply

Dogs in the ocean

Pigs in the sea

Well, come on baby

And wakka-wakka-wakka with me

I been refused

And I lost my shoes

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Track details

From Hardcore Devo: Volume Two

1991

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Album

Hardcore Devo: Volume Two

Release year

1991

—All Of Us
—Goo Goo Itch
—Doghouse Doghouse
—I Been Refused
—Dogs of Democracy
—U Got Me Bugged
—Baby Talkin' Bitches
—Bamboo Bimbo
—Can U Take It?
—Fountain of Filth
—Let's Go
—The Rope Song
—Chango
—37
—A Plan For U
—Clockout [Hardcore Version]
—Booji Boy's Funeral
—I Need a Chick
—Fraulein
—Bottled Up
—Shimmy Shake
—Hubert House
—Man From The Past

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Gerald Casale
Producer: Devo