Dead Kennedys

Triumph of the Swill

Life can only get better

All you need to do is fall in love

Everyone else has fun but you

Buy that fun you'll fit in too

Dance your problems away

GOVERNMENT MUSIC

Cheap escape to that mind-control beat

GOVERNMENT MUSIC

Mellow out-Life's too hard

You don't even want to think

See the macho cock-rock metal heroes

Vomit fire out of their big mouths

Shake your fists obediently

Make Leni Riefenstahl real proud

See the Aryan bozo with the red guitar

Parachute on the White House lawn

Gonna bomb the commies with his air guitar

So dumb he can't drive 55

Like Bing Crosby before them

GOVERNMENT MUSIC

Too idiotic to be real

GOVERNMENT MUSIC

You want it loud?

We'll make sure it goes nowhere

So you won't get ideas

Triumph of the swill

Music is banned in Khomeini's Iran

On the grounds that it stimulates the brain

We've done him one better in the land of coke & honey

Using music to put people's brains to sleep

Ever wonder why commercial radio's so bad?

It's 'cause someone upstairs wants it that way

If the Doors or John Lennon were getting started now

The industry wouldn't sign 'em in a million years

So what do we get

GOVERNMENT MUSIC

Christian censorship and taxed blank tapes

Shoppers strung out on our false hopes

Will flock to obey

Triumph of the swill