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Mar 23Liked by John Klar

Been a huge DK fan since the 1980s, it’s amazing how well the themes of the songs hold up

Don’t overlook Jello’s work with Lard. Laying some truth on us!

“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

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!

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Reaffirming the vital role of art and satire in a healthy society. Today's Marxist chaos does tolerate criticism well, from either art or humor. Time to write a song?

Thanks so much for contributing! Our phones and computers are listening....

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UNITE WITH GOD AND LIKE MINDED BROTHERS AND SISTERS PRAY AND PREP

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Mar 23Liked by John Klar

wow!

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I had their album as a (rebellious) teenager. I toured the punk scene in London at age 16 -- in 1979! Today's American cities look much more freaky.....

Can you tell I had fun writing it? :)

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You channeled the inner punk voice of a 16-year-old who has the wisdom of a 60-year-old.

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And who is now a 70-year-old... :)

Precisely.

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Well, you wrote like a smart disillusioned 17-year-old!

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That's how I self-identify.... Then I can't get drafted either, ever!

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Mar 23·edited Mar 23

Another fine example of not learning from history, and how truths must be hidden and or otherwise pigeon-holed. To have succumbed to a fentanyl overdose only recently, after a coke and heroin fueled generation graduated to the senior demographic, seems rather conspicuous -- especially since we now know our CIA and their colluding politicians were/are heavily involved in and largely managing the various drug, human trafficking, and money laundering cartels among the several corrupt Middle East and South American regimes.

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Here’s a wife probably also beyond the imaginations of the Dead Kennedys—courtesy of today’s NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/10/nyregion/hacienda-sex-club-consent.html?referringSource=articleShare

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