The Decline

"The Decline"

~ Nofx ~

Where are all the stupid people from?
And how'd they get to be so dumb?
Bred on purple mountain range
Feed amber waves of grains
To lesser human beings; zero feelings

Blame it on:
Human nature; man's destiny
Blame it on the greediocracy
Fear of God
The fear of change
The fear of truth

Add to the Bill of Rights, subtract the wrongs
There's no answers
Memorize and sing star spangled songs
When the questions
Aren't ever asked
Is anybody learning from the past?
We're living in united stagnation

Father what have I done?
I took that .22
A gift to me from you
To bed with me each night
Kept it clean
Polished it well
Cherished every cartridge, every shell

Down, by the creek, under brush, under dirt
There's a carcass of my second kill
Down, by the park, under stone, under pine
There's a carcass of my brother William
Brother where, have you gone to?
I swear, I never thought I could
I see so many times
They told me to shoot straight
Don't pull the trigger, squeeze
That will insure a kill
A kill is what you want
A kill is why we breed

The Christians love their guns
The church and NRA
Pray for their salvations
Prey on the lower faiths

The story book's been read
And every line believed
Curriculum's been set
Logic is a threat
Reason searched and seized

Jerry spent some time in Michigan
A twenty year vacation, after all he had a dime
A dime is worth a lot more in Detroit
A dime in California, a twenty dollar fine

Jerry only stayed a couple months
It's hard to enjoy yourself while bleeding out the ass
Asphyxiation is simple and fast
It beats seventeen fun years of being someone's bitch

Don't think (Stay)
Drink your wine (Home)
Watch the fire burn (Be)
His problems not mine (Safe)
Just be that model citizen

I wish I had a schilling
For every senseless killing
I'd buy a government
America's for sale
And you can get a good deal on it
And make a healthy profit
Or maybe, tear it apart

Start with assumption
That a million people are smart;
Smarter than one

Serotonin's gone
She gave up, drifted away
Sara fled, thought process gone
She left her answering machine on
The greeting left spoken sincere
Messages no one will ever hear

Ten thousand messages a day
A million more transmissions lay
Victims of the laissez faire
Ten thousand voices, a hundred guns
A hundred decibels turns to one
One bullet, one empty head
Now with Serotonin gone

The man who used to speak
Performs a cute routine
Feel a little patronized
Don't feel bad
They found a way inside your head
And you feel a bit misled
It's not that they don't care, yeah

The television's put a thought inside your head
Like a Barry Manilow, jingle
I'd like, to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
A symphonic blank stare, yeah
It doesn't make you care
Not designed to make you care
They're betting you won't care

Place a wager on your greed
A wager on your pride
Why try to beat them when, a million others tried?

We are the whore
Intellectually spayed
We are the queer
Dysfunctionally raised

One more pill to kill the pain
One more pill to kill the pain
One more pill to kill the pain
Living through conformity

One more prayer to keep me safe
One more prayer to keep us warm
One more prayer to keep us safe
There's gonna be a better place

Lost the battle, lost the war
Lost the things worth living for
Lost the will to win the fight
One more pill to kill the pain

The going get tough, the tough get debt
Don't pay attention, pay the rent
Next of kins pay for your sins
A little faith should keep us safe

Save us
The human, existence
Is failing, resistance
Essential, the future
Written off, the odds are
Astronomically against us
Only moron and genius
Would fight a losing battle
Against the super ego
When giving in is so damn comforting

And so we go, on with our lives
We know the truth, but prefer lies
Lies are simple, simple is bliss
Why go against tradition when we can
Admit defeat, live in decline
Be the victim of our own design
The status quo, built on suspect
Why would anyone stick out their neck?

Fellow members of
Club "We've Got Ours"
I'd like to introduce you to our host
He's got his, and I've got mine
Meet the decline

We are the queer
We are the whore
Ammunition
In the class war
We are worker
We love our queen
We sacrifice
We're soilent green

We are the queer
We are the whore
Ammunition
In the class war

X-Day is Almost Upon Us

Well, it's been a long time coming, but finally it's almost here.

On Friday, in 2 days, X-Men: The Last Stand is going to premiere.

Now, I know what you're saying, Rat, you're obsessed.

Well, you're right.

But the good news is I've stopped trying to deny it.

I guess I realized I was obsessed while I was watching The Da Vinci Code (absolutely first rate movie by the way - don't believe the anti-hype), which stars Ian McKellen (who also plays Magneto in the X-Men movies).

In one particular scene, McKellen's character kind of goes off the deepend and starts yelling histerically. At that point, I leaned over to my friend and said, "Magneto's lost it."

It was a sad state of affairs. But at least now I've accepted my particular dementia and can move on with my life.

So anyways, X-Men: The Last Stand comes out on Friday and you should go see it.

- The Desert Rat.

The Profound Nature of Becker

Wow, who would have thought a tv show could make so much sense and be funny at the same time? I watch quite a bit of television, and every once in a while, I catch an episode of Becker, starring Ted Danson.

I don't know if it's just the episodes I've seen; but they have made some terrific points:

1. "What about all the violence that happened before we had television? I suppose the Spanish Inquisition came off a bad episode of Gilligan's Island"

2. "There is no money because the federal government cut taxes - which is all anybody seems to care about any more. That means less money for the states, which means less money for the cities, which means we have to cut services, which means fewer cops, fewer firemen, bad air, bad water, crappy schools which will turn out yet another generation of voters who are too stupid and greedy to think about anything else besides cutting taxes."