Dead Kennedys - This Could Be Anywhere

Cold concrete apartments
Rise up from wet black asphalt
Below them a few carcasses
Of the long gone age of privacy

It takes a scary kind of illness
To design a place like this for pay
Downtown's an endless generic mall
Of video games and fast food chains

One by one
The little houses are bricked up and condemned
A subtle hint to move
Before the rats move in

This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
Those new kids at school seem cool
But dad says not to talk to them
Stick to your old friends
They're not our kind
So now there's lots of fights

So many people I know
Come of age tense and bitter-eyed
Can't create so they just destroy
C'mon!
Let's set someone's dog on fire

Empty plastic
Culture slum suburbia
Is a war zone now
Sprouting the kinds of gangs
We thought we'd left behind

This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
Kids at school are taking sides
Along color and uniform lines
My dad's gone and bought a gun
He says he's fed up
With crime in this town
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
Anywhere
Everywhere
I hope I'm gone before it explodes
I linger late at night
Waiting for the bus
No amount of neon jazz
Could hide the oozing vibes of death
My dad's a vigilante now
He's bringing home these weird-ass friends
Like the guy who fires blanks at his TV
When Kojak's on
Or the guy who shows off his submachine gun
To his sixteen-year-old daughter's friends
Whose sense of pride and hope
Is being in the police reserve

This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere-Everywhere

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[niclufc]

im 42 and fuck me this takes me back HAPPY FUCKING DAYS thanks to iateyourmomsdog

[iateyourmomsdog]

@niclufc Aaaayy!

[dime1046]

JELLO 4 PRESIDENT

[hecubusXX]

this could be anywhere even in 2012 almost 30 years after this song was written. Downtown is still an endless generic mall and the long gone age of privacy is still long gone

[heavyhebrew]

Just take a second and think how cool it would have been if Jello had been elected mayor of SF?

I know, like Big Business would let an activist break up their little game of money, drugs and power.

[meeces13]

@ISincerelyDontCare thats called "rock and roll" youre hearing

[wagooairlines]

it takes a scary kind of illness to design a place like this for pay

[Teetee33]

That's the thing about DK: Biafra could crack you up with the seriousness of what he was saying--but they were also a really down-to-earth, gritty, kick ass rock band musically. Just hear the guys pound this one out!

[GolliwoggMusic]

Golliwogg APPROVES of this song.

[07brando]

@dawnrexgurl cmon dawn, dont be so repressed, everybody kisses girls these days

[NoisyLittleBugger]

I've been rekindling my love for the DKs (now 39). As a kid growing up in a shitty catholic Ireland, these songs opened my mind to question EVERYTHING and in that sense have enriched me. The lyrics have been amazingly prophetic.

Biafra talks a lot of balls these days, but I have still huge respect for him, and in particular for not selling out to Levi's.

[ISincerelyDontCare]

Swear to god I can hear "I Fought the Law" in there...

[blitzspeer]

Wow!Such a long time lapse there SophisticatedLunatic,I bet back in 86' you were the envy of the other young punks with all your sophistication you lunatic bahhaha.Starting sentences with fuck is usually a sign of lack of sophistication but works great in the porn industry.