X - Must Not Think Bad Thoughts

at The Cabooze
October 2011

Songwriters: Exene Cervenka, John Doe

The facts we hate
We'll never meet walking down the road
Everybody yelling, "Hurry up, hurry up"
But I'm waiting for you, I must go slow

I must not think bad thoughts
What is this world coming to?
Both sides are right, but both sides murder
I give up, why can't they?

I must not think bad thoughts
I must not think bad thoughts
I must not think bad thoughts

The civil wars and the uncivilized wars
Conflagrations leap out of every poor furnace
The food cooks poorly and everyone goes hungry
From then on it's dog eat dog, dog eat body and body eat dog

I can't go down there
I can't understand it
I'm a no good coward and an American too
A North American, that is

And I must not think bad thoughts
And I must not think bad thoughts
And I must not think bad thoughts

I must not think bad thoughts
I must not think bad thoughts

I'm guilty of murder of innocent men
Innocent women, innocent children, thousands of them
My planes, my guns, my money, my soldiers
My blood on my hands it's all my fault

I must not think bad thoughts
I must not think bad thoughts
I must not think bad thoughts

The facts we hate you'll never hear us
I hear the radio is finally gonna play new music
You know, 'The British Invasion'
But what about the Minutemen, Flesh Eaters, DOA
Big Boys and the Black Flag?

Will the last American band to get played on the radio
Please bring the flag? Please bring the flag?
Glitter, disco, synthesizer, night school
All this noble savage drum, drum, drum

Astronauts going back in time to hang out with the cave people
It's about time, it's about space
It's about some people in the strangest place
Woody Guthrie sang about B E E T S not B E A T S

I must not think bad thoughts
I must not think bad thoughts
I must not think bad thoughts

The facts we hate
We'll never meet walking down the road
Everybody yelling, "Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up"
But I'm waiting for you I must go slow

I must not think bad thoughts
When is this world coming to?
Both sides are right, but both sides murder
I give up, why can't they?

I must not think bad thoughts
I must not think bad thoughts
I must not think bad thoughts

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Music

Tags:

• must
• not
• think
• bad
• thoughts
• cabooze
• 2011

[TheLiveOak]

This stream-of-consciousness reflection on our messed-up cultural/political state is as fresh and relevant as the day it was written.

[CJLehde]

wow!