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Stealing People's Mail Lyrics
We ain't going to the party
We ain't going to the game
We ain't going to the disco
Ain't gonna cruise down main
We're stealing people's mail
stealing people's mail
stealing people's mail
On a Friday night
Drivin' in the mountains
Winding 'round and 'round
Rummage through your mailboxes
Take your mail back to town
And we got license plates, wedding gifts, tax returns
Checks to politicians from real estate firms
Money, bills and cancelled checks
Pretty funny pictures of your kids
We're stealing people's mail
On a Friday night
We're stealing people's mail
By the pale moonlight
We got grocery sackful after grocery sackful
After grocery sackful after grocery sackful
After grocery sackful after grocery sackful
Of the private lives of you
Ha Ha
People say that we're crazy
We're sick and all alone
But when we read your letters
We're rolling on the floor
We got more license plates, wedding gifts, tax returns
Checks to politicians from real estate firms
Money, bills and cancelled checks
We cut relationships with your friends
We're gonna steal your mail
On a Friday night
Gonna steal your mail
By the pale moonlight
We better not get caught
We'll be dumped in institutions
Where we'll be drugged and shocked
'Til we come out born-again Christians...
We ain't going to the game
We ain't going to the disco
Ain't gonna cruise down main
stealing people's mail
stealing people's mail
On a Friday night
Drivin' in the mountains
Winding 'round and 'round
Rummage through your mailboxes
Take your mail back to town
Checks to politicians from real estate firms
Money, bills and cancelled checks
Pretty funny pictures of your kids
On a Friday night
We're stealing people's mail
By the pale moonlight
After grocery sackful after grocery sackful
After grocery sackful after grocery sackful
Of the private lives of you
Ha Ha
We're sick and all alone
But when we read your letters
We're rolling on the floor
Checks to politicians from real estate firms
Money, bills and cancelled checks
We cut relationships with your friends
On a Friday night
Gonna steal your mail
By the pale moonlight
We'll be dumped in institutions
Where we'll be drugged and shocked
'Til we come out born-again Christians...
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...No, stealing people's mail does not creat total anarchy. It just annoys people; how is pissing people off a stroke of genius? And you'd not really be 'undermining the institute' by stealing mail; these are normal people that you're stealing from, and the government isn't hurt. Dead Kennedys' satire is one of the things I really like about them.
Oh and I also think the song is about how there is nothing creative to do in small towns
This song could easily be applied today with the NSA stealing our private information (emails).
Stealing people's mail is a federal crime.
wow, no responses yet?
This song is pretty cool, the whole sarcastic thing, kinda like the Offspring's Beheaded in a way... I mean, he's not serious, he's more poking fun @ the people that do shit like that... or so that's how I interpret the song. Seems like their style is more to poke fun @ other people to make statements, not make their statements by saying their own stuff... get my drift? I'm not wording this as well as I'd like to be able to.
I dont think this song is written in a sarcastic way...
It might be about how people stake a lot of their lives in their mail...
"We cut relationships with your friends"
"Pretty funny pictures of your kids"
etc.
My neighbors mail is mostley ads but they have some nice greeting cards.
MountainJew was right, I think. It's about how people put way, way too much of their private lives and important things in the mail system.
I always found it weird how Americans would just leave all this stuff in a box at the end of their driveways where anyone could take it.
Oh and I also think the song is about how there is nothing creative to do in small towns