TV On the Radio - Dry Drunk Emperor

LYRICS & INFO: more great music http://www.dogonaut.com/programme.asp?programme=pprogcontemp


LYRICS:

baby boy
dieing under hot desert sun,
watch your colours run.

did you believe the lie they told you,
that christ would lead the way
and in a matter of days
hand us victory?

did you buy the bull they sold you,
that the bullets and the bombs
and all the strong arms
would bring home security?

all eyes upon
dry drunk emperor
gold cross cross jock skull and bones
mocking smile,
he's been
standing naked for a while!
get him gone, get him gone, get him gone!!
and bring all the thieves to trial.

end their promise
end their dream
watch it turn to steam
rising to the nose of some cross legged god
gog of magog
end times sort of thing.
oh unmentionable disgrace
shield the childrens faces
as all the monied apes
display unimaginably poor taste
in a scramble for mastery.

atta' boy get em with your gun
till mr. mega ton
tells us when we've won
or
what we're gonna leave undone.

all eyes upon
dry drunk emperor
gold cross jock skull and bones
mocking smile,
he's been
naked for a while.
get him gone, get him gone, get him gone!!!
and bring all his thieves to trial.

what if all the fathers and the sons
went marching with their guns
drawn on washington.
that would seal the deal,
show if it was real,
this supposed freedom.

what if all the bleeding hearts
took it on themselves
to make a brand new start.
organs pumpin on their sleeves,
paint murals on the white house
feed the leaders L.S.D
grab your fife and drum,
grab yor gold baton
and let's meet on the lawn,
shut down this hypocrisy.

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[chrisistubing]

Don't think for one minute that these lyrics aren't relevant anymore.

[ViolenceIsPC]

chrisistubing is absolutely correct. This has to be one of my favorite TVoTR songs and when I first heard it I pictured G.W. Bush's face all over it... The truth of the matter is that these lyrics could be applied to decades of U.S. Government policy with no end in sight.

[TutKatan]

@12inchvertical Jaleel is also a great bassist. You can hear their recent performances here on youtube and see so.

[12inchvertical]

TVOTR has one of the best drummers I've ever heard live

[elrayaqui]

This is the real terrorist, the one that's behind the bloodshed, not the one killed today.

[joydivisionlwtua]

Bush looks pretty good now, compared to Obama, IMO.

[BuddhaLikesCelery]

The song really isn't that attention grabbing and interesting, but the lyrics are fricken AMAZING. Genius song writer

[MrSobreezy]

should've been on the cookie mountain lp

[youaintugly]

when I first heard this song -- I definitely imagined Bush

BUT, now you can definitely relate it with Obama,

especially the ' lead the way & in a matter of days & hand us victory'

however, when relating it to Obama the song conjures up images of Obama's struggle to do genuine good for the country, unlike when I think of Bush & the path of destruction that followed him

[pengiswoof]

"and in a matter of days 'HE'D'

hand us victory."

[lucaruairidh]

phenomenal song !