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Negro Observer Lyrics
Well, I don't know what..
Well, I don't know who..
Well, I don't know where or when..
Well, I don't know it..
Well, I don't know they..
Well, I don't know thick or thin..
Landing in empty parking lots
in deserted discount stores,
Negro observers are landing by the scores!
Dropping down in low-rider cars
from Pluto, Venus, and Mars..
Negro Observers are counting heads in singles bars!
ah hah hah ha hah
Walking up and down the empty boulevards...
Negro Observers with muscles that are very hard!
Walking up and down and falling everywhere,
Negro Observers flying through the air.
They don't know what goes on,
but the Negro Observers are big and strong.
hoo ha ha ha hah
Well, I don't know who..
Well, I don't know where or when..
Well, I don't know it..
Well, I don't know they..
Well, I don't know thick or thin..
in deserted discount stores,
Negro observers are landing by the scores!
Dropping down in low-rider cars
from Pluto, Venus, and Mars..
Negro Observers are counting heads in singles bars!
Negro Observers with muscles that are very hard!
Negro Observers flying through the air.
They don't know what goes on,
but the Negro Observers are big and strong.
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shadowwiththeeyes On Mar 31, 2005
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I used to think this song was about police officers but after reading the lyrics I think its about extraterrestrials.
I always heard the one line as "Negro observers are counting heads in single file". I think this is about our superior alien overlords peacefully coming down to earth and harmlessly observing us. It employs an unreliable narrator who "doesn't know thick or thin", but has seen them and is trying to describe them and their actions, and to whom they look like negroes. I don't know why the ninnies at Matador censored this, one of the catchiest and funnest songs on the record, from the Psychic Powerless rerelease, but burning books is something facists (whether well meaning or not) do.