I Am the Owl lyrics

I am your plumber, no I never went away

I still bug your bedrooms and pick up everything you say

It can be a boring job

To monitor all day your excess talk

I hear when you're drinking and cheating on your lonely wife

I play tape recordings of you to my friends at night

We've got our girl in bed with you

You're on candid camera, we just un-elected you, ha

I am the owl

I seek out the foul

Wipe 'em away, keep America free

For clean-livin' folks like me, hey, hey

If you demonstrate against somebody we like

I'll slip on my wig and see if I can start a riot

Transform you to an angry mob

And all your leaders go to jail for my job

But we ain't the Russians, political trials are taboo

We've got our secret ways of getting rid of you

Fill you full of LSD

And turn you loose on a freeway, whee!

I am the owl

I seek out the foul

Wipe 'em away, keep America free

For clean-livin' folks like me

I send you spinning

I send you spinning

I send you spinning all over the freeway

Spinning on the crowded freeway

Spinning on the freeway, spinning on the freeway

Spinning on the freeway, spinning on the freeway

Spinning on the freeway, spinning on the freeway

Spinning on the freeway, spinning on the freeway

Spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, look out!

The press, they never even cared

Why a youth leader walked into a speeding car

In ten years or so we'll leak the truth

But by then it's only so much paper

You know, Watergate hurt

But nothing really ever changed

A teeny bit quiter but we still play our little games

But we still play our little games

But we still play our little games

We still play our little

We still play our little

We still play our little

We still play a lot of games!

I am the owl

I am the owl

I seek out the foul

Wipe 'em away, keep America free

Wipe 'em away, keep America free

Wipe 'em away, keep America free for me!

• Artist:Dead Kennedys
• Album:Plastic Surgery Disasters (1982)