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Triumph Of The Swill Lyrics

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 don't even want to think


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


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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
Shoppers strung out on our false hopes
Will flock to obey


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WHAT THE FUCK? why dont u guys make comments, this song IS AAWESME. its about the Ozzy trial when he got sued, a kid listening to his "Suicide Solution" blew his head off....always blame the music right? white fuckheads...this song goes well with MTV - Get Off The Air and Chickenshit Conformist

@gofuckyourself

Yes! The media loves to make music out to be the boogeyman

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Plays on Triumph of the Will, which was a Nazi propoganda documentary about Hitler. The song likens our commercial music to the Nazi mind control. Btw- Leni Riefenstahl made/directed Triumph of the Will.

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“We'll make sure it goes nowhere So you won't get ideas” music with a rebellious sound but has no real meaning and doesn’t connect to the real problems the movement is ment to be rebelling against keeps an otherwise troublesome population tame.

Negative
Subjective
Disgust
Rebellious
Meaningless
Tame
Troublesome
Population
Cover art for Triumph Of The Swill lyrics by Dead Kennedys

ahh, so that explains "Shake your fists obediently Make Leni Riefenstahl real proud" because the music is made to provoke anger and action in its listeners like the film was to its viewers?

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and so of course it would made him "real proud" that he had achived his aim

Cover art for Triumph Of The Swill lyrics by Dead Kennedys

relinquo1 i couldn't have said it better my self

Cover art for Triumph Of The Swill lyrics by Dead Kennedys

my favorite part of the song is the first part: "We came home and found our son dead of a gun shot wound to the head an ozzy record was on the turntable then we called our lawyer"

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actually leni Riefenstahl was a girl, but yeah...