Corona Lyrics

Lyric discussion by derekmas10 

Cover art for Corona lyrics by Minutemen

They had gone to Mexico after playing one of their premiere performance art shows the night before. They had all shaved their heads and painted their skulls black to look like a matchbook. When they got to Mexico, they spent their day getting wasted on the beach and passed out - getting extremely sunburnt. When they awoke, there was a Mexican lady on the beach picking up their beer bottles for the deposit money. Southern California having once been Mexico and acquired due to some quick thinking by Jefferson while Napoleon was distracted by empirical madness lives in the lap of luxury while the rest of Mexico exists in poverty - the injustice of our greed. And - if you've ever visited Baja - it's a rather dirty, scarcely populated tribute to this "practice we inherit" as Americans.