Triumph of the Swill lyrics

We came home and found our son lying dead on his bed of a gunshot wound

He had is headphones on and there was an Ozzy record on the turn table

So we called our lawyer

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 won't even want to think, no

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

Triumph of the swill

Triumph of the swill

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 and 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, government music

Shoppers strung out on our false hopes

Will flock to obey

Triumph of the swill

Triumph of the swill

Triumph of the swill

Triumph of the swill

• Artist:Dead Kennedys
• Album:Bedtime for Democracy (1986)