Stars And Stripes Of Corruption

Dead Kennedys

Finally got to Washington in the middle of the night

I couldn't wait

I headed straight for the Capitol Mall

My heart began to pound

Yahoo! It really exists

The American International Pictures logo



I looked up at that Capitol Building

Couldn't help but wonder why

I felt like saying "Hello, old friend"



Walked up the hill to touch it

Then I unzipped my pants

And pissed on it when nobody was looking



Like a great eternal Klansman

With his two flashing red eyes

Turn around he's always watching

The Washington monument pricks the sky

With flags like pubic hair ringed 'round the bottom



The symbols of our heritage

Lit up proudly in the night

Somehow fits to see the homeless people

Passed out on the lawn



So this is where it happens

The power games and bribes

All lobbying for a piece of ass



Of the stars and stripes of corruption

Makes me feel so ashamed

To be an American

When we're too stuck up to learn from our mistakes

Trying to start another Viet Nam

Whilke fiddling while Rome burns at home

The Boss says, "You're laid off. Blame the Japanese"

"America's back," alright

At the game it plays the worst

Strip mining the world like a slave plantation



No wonder others hate us

And the Hitlers we handpick

To bleed their people dry

For our evil empire



The drug we're fed

To make us like it

Is God and country with a band



People we know who should know better

Howl, "America riles. Let's go to war!"

Business scams are what's worth dying for



Are the Soviets our worst enemy?

We're destroying ourselves instead

Who cares about our civil rights

As long as I get paid?



The blind Me-Generation

Doesn't care if life's a lie



so easily used, so proud to enforce



The stars and stripes of corruption

Let's bring it all