Devo is almost always comic relief -but a good song!
Parental Advisory -WTF?! On a DEVO song??
I guess Zappa was right about a fascist theocracy (and I guess merely mentioning that now puts my profile on a Palantir Antifa watchlist -what they hey; probably everyone who’s a Turks member is on that watchlist!)
Brings back memories of seeing them live when youthful rage and hope was in the air, sadly most of my generation forgot the second one but thankfully we have TYT.
They’ll tell you - don’t do that
They’ll try and tell you - it’s for your own good
Big Mother is watching you
Mother’s protecting you
Mommy knows what’s right for you…
Goodbye Freedom, Hello Mom
The Bill of Rights just disappeared
There it is - whoops it’s gone!
Goodbye Freedom, Hello Mom
All your rights just disappeared
Everybody stay calm.
Racism - we don’t want it here
Sexism - we don’t need it here
Fascism - we don’t want it here
Keep that ism out of my ear
Terrorism - we don’t want it here
Leftism - we don’t need it here
Fakeism - we don’t want it here
We don’t want it we don’t need it
Well being an old guy raised on WNEW 102.7 before they went commercial and had WSOU 95.5 Seton Hall’s pirate radio playing the hardest rock for the last 40 listening to kids rock out and me staying relevant with the youts, I’m sure not more than a handful got a clue not being a top 40 hit.
When you feel life ain’t worth living
You’ve got to stand up
Take a look around, look up way to the sky, hell yeah
And when your deepest thoughts are broken
Keep on dreamin’ boy, ‘cause when you stop dreamin’ it’s time to die
And after this scene is the famous “I’m shocked! Shocked” Claude Rains scene, which we are having to fall back on a lot nowadays when we see the actions of the Dems who are corporate or AIPAC, and the Repubs other than Massey and Paul…