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Elvis Ate America Lyrics
Elvis... white trash
Elvis... the Memphis flash
Elvis... didn't smoke hash
Would've been a sissy without Johnny Cash
Elvis... didn't dodge the draft
Elvis... had his own aircraft
Elvis... having a laugh
On the Lisa Marie in a colour photograph
Elvis... under the hood
Elvis... with Cadillac blood
Elvis... darling bud
Flowered and returned to the Mississippi mud
Elvis... ain't gonna rot
Elvis... in a Memphis plot
Elvis... he didn't hear the shot
And Dr. King died just across the lot from...
Elvis... vanilla ice cream
Elvis... girls of fourteen
Elvis... the Memphis spleen
Shooting TVs reading Corinthian's 13
Elvis... with God on his knees
Elvis... owned three TVs
Here come the killer bees
Head full of honey potato chips and cheese
Elvis... the bumper stickers
Elvis... the white knickers
Elvis... the white nigger
Ate at king burger and just kept getting bigger
Elvis... sang to win
Elvis... the battle hymn
Elvis... the battle to be slim
Elvis ate America before America ate him
Elvis...
Elvis... stamps
Elvis... necromance
Elvis... fans
Elvis... psychophants
Elvis... the public enemy
Elvis... don't mean shit to Chuck D.
Elvis... changed the center of gravity
Made it slippy
Elvis... Hitler
Elvis... Nixon
Elvis... Christ
Elvis... Mishima
Elvis... Markus
Elvis... Jackson
Elvis... the pelvis
Elvis... the psalmist
Elvis... the genius
Elvis... generous
Elvis... forgive us
Elvis... pray for us
Elvis... Aaron
Elvis... Presley
Elvis... the Memphis flash
Elvis... didn't smoke hash
Would've been a sissy without Johnny Cash
Elvis... had his own aircraft
Elvis... having a laugh
On the Lisa Marie in a colour photograph
Elvis... with Cadillac blood
Elvis... darling bud
Flowered and returned to the Mississippi mud
Elvis... in a Memphis plot
Elvis... he didn't hear the shot
And Dr. King died just across the lot from...
Elvis... girls of fourteen
Elvis... the Memphis spleen
Shooting TVs reading Corinthian's 13
Elvis... owned three TVs
Here come the killer bees
Head full of honey potato chips and cheese
Elvis... the bumper stickers
Elvis... the white knickers
Elvis... the white nigger
Ate at king burger and just kept getting bigger
Elvis... the battle hymn
Elvis... the battle to be slim
Elvis ate America before America ate him
Elvis... necromance
Elvis... fans
Elvis... psychophants
Elvis... the public enemy
Elvis... don't mean shit to Chuck D.
Elvis... changed the center of gravity
Made it slippy
Elvis... Nixon
Elvis... Christ
Elvis... Mishima
Elvis... Markus
Elvis... Jackson
Elvis... the pelvis
Elvis... the psalmist
Elvis... the genius
Elvis... generous
Elvis... forgive us
Elvis... pray for us
Elvis... Aaron
Elvis... Presley
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Like Elvis and America on The Unforgetable Fire this seems to be an improvisation. But this song is more structured and the lyrics more coherent. Howie B co-wrote Elvis ate America and laid the rhythmtrack and is shouting Elvis trhu out the song.
I think this is kind of defence and celebration of Elvis Presley and his life.
The line, Elvis ate America before America ate him, is very good. Elvis was bigger than anyone thought in the 50´s, but in the end the world had finally caught up with him. But depsite that, his achievements are still as much as relevant now as then.
I JUST HEARD THIS SONG. I THINK IT IS REALLY BAD AND LAME. WHY DID THEY WIRTE THIS JUNK?