We got government by ignorance and lots of lobbies in a line And sticktwirling painclerks out punching in their time Dread damaged Democrats dangling for a dime And paidfor paperboys there to keep the public blind Us we got nothing no reason no clue Just the got no shotgun hydrahead octopus blues We got drug war arms pimps with all their paydolls in a row The cold war cowboys need another row to hoe Air Force C130s flying out of Mexico Machine guns going one way and cocaine coming home Us we got nothing no reason no clue Just the got no shotgun hydrahead octopus blues The time is ripe for pure dissent If you got money from the mob and muscle from the government You blow off one head you get another dozen The money gods of Washington got a lot of waiting cousins Bellies full of Cutty Sark and faces ripe for mugging The tyrant and the mob are joined up like a witchs coven And the whitecoats and the technocrats are warming up their ovens Us we got nothing no reason no clue Just the got no shotgun hydrahead octopus blues
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