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Nuclear War Lyrics
Nuclear war (yeah)
Nuclear war (yeah)
Talkin' about (yeah)
Nuclear War (yeah)
It's a motherfucker,
Don't you know.
If they push that button,
Your ass gotta go.
It'll blast you, so high in the sky
You can kiss your ass goodbye
If they push that button,
It'll blast your ass so high in the sky
Goodbye, goodbye
Radiation, mutation
Fire, fire,
Hydrogen bombs, atomic bombs,
Neutron bombs,
Kiss your ass,
Goodbye goodbye.
Whatcha gonna do?
Without your ass?
Whatcha gonna do?
Without no ass?
Without your ass?
You've got no ass
You lost your ass
(...)
Nuclear war (yeah)
Talkin' about (yeah)
Nuclear War (yeah)
Don't you know.
If they push that button,
Your ass gotta go.
You can kiss your ass goodbye
If they push that button,
It'll blast your ass so high in the sky
Goodbye, goodbye
Fire, fire,
Hydrogen bombs, atomic bombs,
Neutron bombs,
Kiss your ass,
Goodbye goodbye.
Without your ass?
Whatcha gonna do?
Without no ass?
Without your ass?
You've got no ass
You lost your ass
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exact On Apr 20, 2004
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"it'll blast you, so high in the sky you can kiss your ass goodbye if they push that button, it'll blast your ass so high in the sky goodbye, goodbye
radiation, mutation fire, fire, hydrogen bombs, atomic bombs, neutron bombs, kiss your ass, goodbye goodbye.
whatcha gonna do? without your ass? whatcha gonna do? without no ass? without your ass? you've got no ass you lost your ass"
that's all missing
this song crack me the fuck up; should be a national anthem, an international one for that matter
great song, originally done by Sun Ra. They play this live and it stomps.
I've never heard the Sun Ra original but the Yo La Tengo version has more lyrics than this such as sining about neutron bombs and nuke-ular bombs.
The children chanting "motherfucker" is priceless.. Very good cover.
haha agreed. motherfucker. love it.
love the complexities suggested by having children sing backup- children represent innocence (in this case, lost innocence); these children have inherited a world threatened by something before them and beyond their control; and plus, its just funny hearing kids swear. i wonder whose kids they used for this? their own? and this whole bleak song is performed in this trippy happy way- awesome!
It sounds like a camp song - sing and respond. I wish I went to a camp like that. "Bye bye ass."