Dead Kennedys: Soup Is Good Food

We're sorry
But you're no longer needed
Or wanted
Or even cared about here
Machines can do a better job than you
This is what you get for asking questions

The unions agree
'Sacrifices must be made'
Computers never go on strike
To save the working man you've got to put him out to pasture

Looks like we'll have to let you go
Doesn't it feel fulfilling to know
That you-the human being-are now obsolete
And there's nothing in hell we'll let you do about it

[Chorus]
Soup is good food-(We don't need you any more)
You made a good meal-(We don't need you any more)
Now how do you feel-(We don't need you any more)
To be shit out our ass
And thrown in the cold like a piece of trash
We're sorry
You'll just have to leave
Unemployment runs out after just six weeks
How does it feel to be a budget cut?
You're snipped
You no longer exist

Your number's been purged from our central computer
So we can rig the facts
And sweep you under the rug
See our chart? Unemployment's going down
If that ruins your life that's your problem

Soup is Good Food, Etc.
We're sorry
We hate to interrupt
But it's against the law to jump off this bridge
You'll just have to kill yourself somewhere else
A tourist might see you
And we wouldn't want that

I'm just doing my job, you know
So say uncle
And we'll take you to the mental health zoo
Force feed you mind-melting chemicals
Til even the outside world looks great

In hi-tech science research labs
It costs too much to bury all the dead
The mutilated disease-injected
Surplus rats who can't be used anymore

So they're dumped (with no minister present)
In a spiraling corkscrew dispose-all unit
Ground into sludge and flushed away
Aw geez:.

Soup is good food
You made a good meal, etc:.
We know how much you'd like to die
We joke about it on our coffee breaks
But we're paid to force you to have a nice day
In the wonderful world we made just for you
"Poor Rats", we human rodents chuckle
At least we get a dignified cremation
At yet
At 6:00 tomorrow morning
It's time to get up and go to work

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[Knightdragon0020]

@mp3piratesavvy True Socialism can only exist in a democratic society. Socialism is the people controlling the means of production. It's not the Command Economy you think it is and that has been exhibited by 50's Russia or current day china. If you did some research, you would find that true Socialism has never been exercised.

[777azathoth]

soup IS good food indeed! i love DK. been hooked forever! Jello's lyrics are so cuttingly true!

[davidvollmar]

LA LA LAND

[Chise37]

@Idolcruisefix Soylent Green!

[SterilizeThePopulace]

@Knightdragon0020 That's an oversimplification. You say "true socialism" as if there's agreement as to what true socialism is. Socialism is a broad term, and the Soviet Union fits the general definition. It was an authoritarian state, but it's still accurately described as socialist.

[barron8006]

I'm from the rust belt. Listening to this song was very prescient at the time. Now, the service jobs are going. Still fools don't understand what 'free market' means and cling to their primitive, manufactured, PR conservative, or even liberal, values.

[Joecredit3]

Prophesy 

[Idolcruisefix]

The real USA is all about having a government as much for show as the royals of europe claim they are for show. the USA is anarchy with a little bit of government to make us not look like we are crazy anarchists. the government is there to make it look like we are not in total control, which we, are so get with it lazy ppl. get slavery back, we could if we wanted. lets enslave the whites this time. or how about lets not. lets just stop the gov. from doing all this crazy shit they do. RON PAUL 12

[Idolcruisefix]

soup is good. especially with

people. mmmm.

[HBomb2323]

The people controlling the means of production is a step in the right direction

However, true freedom will only be realised when the people can own & live on their own parcel of land opting in and out of work when they need to buy material goods. The people of Europe were forced to labour in the factories of the industrial revolution after their land was stolen from them by forced land clearances (in the UK "The Enclosure act). [Google "The Enclosure Act"]

[owingawat]

@nicktaxidermy An 'anarchist state' is an oxymoron, as anarchy is stateless. It's an alternative form of order without the hierarchies.

[nicktaxidermy]

@owingawat provisional anarchy, rather than a permanent anarchist state