[Verse 1]
It's lights, places, camera, action
Point-blank political assassination
As usual the public tongue is in its rightful ear
While insecure minds hold social fears

Father figures patronize confused countries who realize
They don't know what the hell they're talking about
America, the living example of the idolizers' Doppler effect
We can't prepare for or prevent war, we know that
Twenty years ago he said "tell them Nixon's gone mad,"
And so they started to bomb everything they had

[Chorus]
Frustrated fireworks inside your head
Left the fingerprints of shadows on the still-life dead
Smokey temptations and lingerie pills
Keep a large man wealthy in Beverley Hills
Now they shut heavy metal mouths of lyrical obscenities
All about sex and drugs and other affinities
But that's exactly what they should be about

[Verse 2]
Religious safety shields and a political sex life
While you hide the pictures of you and your ex-wife
You take too many sleeping pills, you know what happens
It's Christmas time, I find the scissors and the scotch
The shaving cream attempts to stop the hands of the clock
Innocent bystanders is a contradiction in terms
And openness is a nonfiction word

[Chorus]
Petting our parachutes and purring cats
Doing the breaststroke at night, waiting for something to snap
Well we don't have one night stands, just excuses that we made
Like we don't have education, just career hit-lists
Hey John Mitchell, I hope you have a nice day
The campus is beautiful out here at Kent State
Now that it's quiet you can go about your business

[Verse 3]
So scalded science waits for intervention
To bite the disease of separation
Oblivious survivors will take one in three
It's the great communicator which speaks silently

[Chorus]
We tried to ignore it for eighty months
But do you realize what we have done?
Was it because it was a normal or we thought it'd go away
Like George Will, one of his better days
So you fill out your tax form, W-4
And you know exactly what it's going for
Give me one good reason why you do it
[Outro]
Baby Britain's mistress curses will fill the lines with missing persons
Sixteen thousand in West Germany play Red Rover with the Pershing Three
Play Red Rover with the Perishing Three
Play Red Rover with the Perishing Three