I Am The Owl Lyrics

Lyric discussion by maredcain 

Cover art for I Am The Owl lyrics by Dead Kennedys

Its about government spying.

"I am your plumber No I never went away I still bug your bedrooms And pick up everything you say It can be a boring job To monitor all day your excess talk

I hear when you're drinking And cheating on your lonely wife I play tape recordings Of you to my friends at night"

the fbi and others would (do) fuck up your drainage or plumbing so you would call a plumber. the plumber (who was actually a fbi agent) would come in to fix your toilet and bug your house in the proccess.

"We've got our girl in bed with you You're on candid camera We just un-elected you"

if you're an ellected official who's not playing ball with the regular white agenda, the feds would (will) pay a girl to seduce you and come home with you. they would then record you having sex with her, and leak it to the media. bingo, no more govenor with contradicting polocies in office.

then biafra cuts to a new job for "the owl".

"If you demonstrate Angainst somebody we like I'll slip on a wig And see if I can start a riot Transform you to an angry mob All your leaders go to jail for my job"

often times if there is a peacful march or demonstration against the government, police or feds will dress up as protestors and start trouble so that the police in uniform have a good reason to start bashing heads and shooting. they did it against the blacks in the 70's and its a widespread tool these days. ( http://cms.animalfarmshow.com/?p=1286 )

"But we ain't the Russians Political trials are taboo We've got our secret Ways of getting rid of you Fill you full of LSD Turn you loose on a freeway

Send you spinning Send you spinning Send you spinning all over the freeway Spinning on the crowded freeway Spinning on the freeway Spinning on the freeway Spin... Spin... Spin - Lookout

The Press, they never even cared Why a youth leader walked into a speeding car In ten years we'll leek the truth By then it's only so much paper

You know, Watergate hurt But nothing really ever changed A teeny bit quieter But we still play our little games"

this referse to the horrible force they use if the other methods arent working. in short, they kill you, and make it looks like you were a schmuck. fill you with drugs, make it look like you killed yourself, or that you were some sort of pervert or bad person, so the public dosnt care. it also referse to how they do evil, and then release the evidence ten to thirty years later and say "that administration was bad, but we fixed it. were better." see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO