 Genius Meanings
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Dead Kennedys – Forward to Death
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[Verse 1] / I don't need your way of life / I can't stand your attitudes / I can do without your strife / [Pre-Chorus] / I don't need this fucking world / I don't need this fucking
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Dead Kennedys – Drug Me
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[Verse 1] / I don't want to think / Don't make me care / I wanna melt in with the group / I need the balls / To leap out of my shell / And let go with my friends / Can't come up
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Dead Kennedys – Chemical Warfare
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[Verse 1] / Down at the arsenal, they keep the nerve gasses / Guarded day and night by caged white rabbits / Been sitting there for years, I'm gonna have at it / I cut through the
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Dead Kennedys – Your Emotions
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[Verse 1] / Your mommy told you this / And your daddy told you that / "Always think like this / And never do that" / You learned so many feelings / But what is there to that
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Dead Kennedys – Holiday in Cambodia
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The song is a criticism of pitiful, self-righteous people and their attempts to tangentially support those less fortunate than themselves by merely mentioning their plight or
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Dead Kennedys – California Über Alles
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The Dead Kennedys describe an exaggerated hippy dictatorship under a Presidency of Jerry Brown, who was Governor of California and a presidential hopeful at the time of recording
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Dead Kennedys – I Kill Children
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No Jello Biafra isn’t a kiddie killer like some might suggest. Jello Biafra sings through the perspective of a serial killer who murders children.
According to wikipedia, Jello
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Dead Kennedys – When Ya Get Drafted
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[Verse 1] / Are you believing the morning papers? / War is coming back in style / There's generals here, advisors there / And the Russians nibbling everywhere / The chessboard's
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Dead Kennedys – Viva Las Vegas
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A cover of Elvis’s original song recorded by the Dead Kennedys for their debut album. Most of the lyrics are unchanged, although there are some changes made to the second a fourth
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Dead Kennedys – Let's Lynch the Landlord
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Exposes some of the evils that landlords—specifically slumlords—were notorious for in the old days.
Jello Biafra also declares that the physical place that inspired the song is “
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Dead Kennedys – Back In Rhodesia
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[Verse 1] / Have you been reading the morning papers? / The Cold War's coming back in style / And there's general's here, advisors there, and the Cuban intel everywhere / The Cold
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Dead Kennedys – Kill The Poor [Disco Version]
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[Verse 1] / The sun beams down on a brand new day / No more welfare tax to pay / Unsightly slums gone up in flashing light / Jobless millions whisked away / At last we have more
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Dead Kennedys – Viva Las Vegas [Live At The Deaf Club]
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[Verse 1] / Bright light city going to set my soul / Going to set my soul on fire / Got a whole lot of money that's ready to burn / So get those stakes up higher / There's a
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Dead Kennedys – Mutations Of Today
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[Verse 1] / The Mexican monster babies are here / Are here in the USA / The Mexican monster babies are here / Are here in North America / Soon they will spread / To the USA / Land
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Dead Kennedys – Kidnap
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[Intro] / Hey, hey, hey, hey! / Liberation for today! / [Verse 1] / Kidnap, everyone in Italy / Kidnap, any bigwig you please / Kidnap, Caroline Kennedy / Kidnap, Donny and rape
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Dead Kennedys – California Über Alles [Live At The Deaf Club]
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I am Governor Jerry Brown / My aura smiles and never frowns / Soon I will be president / Carter power will soon go away / I will be Führer one day / I will command all of you
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Dead Kennedys – Kepone Kids
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“Kepone Kids” is an early version of the song “Kepone Factory” which would appear on the 1981 EP, In God We Trust, Inc. This song tells the story of a speaker grappling with the
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Dead Kennedys – Funland at the Beach
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[Verse 1] / Sunny Sunday at the amusement park / See the fat kids spill their pop / Oh, babe, lots of flags and balloons / But someone sabotaged the rollercoaster last night / Ran
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Dead Kennedys – Gaslight
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[Verse 1] / Lady Darkness waves her wand, reality drinks lysergic acid / Makes 'em rally through tough times, support your local steel / [Pre-Chorus 1] / Positive idea works again
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Dead Kennedys – Ill in the Head
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[Verse 1] / In a desperate mind / Little gardens grow / They grow very wide / They grow very tall / [Chorus] / Why am I alive? / Urban wonderland / By the fence, I stand / In and
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Dead Kennedys – Stealing People's Mail
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[Verse 1] / We ain't goin' to the party / We ain't goin' to the game / We ain't goin' to the disco / Ain't gonna cruise down Main / [Chorus] / We're stealing people's mail
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Dead Kennedys – Cold Fish
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[Intro] / Oh baby, oh baby / You're gonna make me so obsessed, oh yeah / [Verse 1] / I saw my baby in the morgue this morning / Neurotoxin makes good beer / I asked, can you maybe
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Dead Kennedys – I Kill Children [Demo]
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[Intro] / Don't scream / [Chorus 1] / I kill children / I love to see them die / I kill children / And make their mamas cry / Crush 'em under my car / I like to hear them scream
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Dead Kennedys – Kill the Poor
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The third single off the punk classic Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables, “Kill the Poor” portrays a right-wing celebration of neutron bombs being sicced on poor people in the name
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Dead Kennedys – Back in the U.S.S.R.
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Flew in from Miami Beach B O A C / Didn't get to sleep last night / On the way a paper bag was on my knee / God I had a dreadful flight / I'm back in the U.S.S.R / You don't know
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Dead Kennedys – Dreadlocks Of The Suburbs
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[Verse 1] / Why don't you come to my room / While our daddies fucks with business / Ain't enough to fund my habits / They look like alcoholic rabbits / Ever had a load of [?] / And
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Dead Kennedys – Holiday in Cambodia [Live At The Deaf Club]
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[Verse 1] / So, you've been to school for a year or two / And you know you've seen it all / In daddy's car, you know you'll go far / Back east, your type don't crawl / You like
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Dead Kennedys – Have I The Right
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Have I the right to hold you? You know I've always told you / That we must never ever part oh ooh ooh oh / Have I the right to kiss you? You know I'll always miss you / I've loved
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Drake – Energy
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This song addresses Drake’s haters along with the controversy surrounding Birdman, Lil Wayne, and Cash Money Records.
The music video for this song went viral, with Drake
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Dead Kennedys – Holiday In Cambodia [Demo]
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[Verse 1] / So, you've been to school for a year or two / And you know you've seen it all / In daddy's car, you know you'll go far / Back east, your type don't crawl / You like
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Dead Kennedys – Man With The Dogs [Demo]
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[Verse 1] / I am no one, but I am well known / For I am the Man with the Dogs / I stare at you shopping, watch while you're walking / Two dogs run around your toes / You turn
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Dead Kennedys – Police Truck [Live At The Deaf Club]
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[Verse 1] / Tonight's the night that we got the truck / We're going downtown, gonna beat up drunks / Your turn to drive, I'll bring the beer / It's the late, late shift, no one to
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Lou Reed (Ft. Vaclav Havel) – To Do The Right Thing
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I was backstage at Wembley Stadium. I was there for the Nelson Mandela concert. The weather was typically English. It was hailing and outside 72,000 people were sitting in the
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Les Thugs – Moon Over Marin
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The crowded future stings my eyes / I still find time to exercise / In uniform with two white stripes / Unlock my section of the sand / It's fenced off to the water's edge / I
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Neurosis – Saturday Night Holocaust
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There's a prefab building and a funny smell / Around the hills outside of town / Every now and then we wonder / But we shrug our shoulders and get back to work / There's a railroad
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Rockit Music (Ft. Dan Bull) – Evil Feeds
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[Intro: Rockit] / Evil feeds / Residents like us / Residents like us / [Verse 1: Dan Bull] / I walk corridors all night trying / To recall my former life from before my eyes / Were
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