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Artist: Dead Kennedys
Track: Holiday in Cambodia

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So, you've been to school
For a year or two
And you know you've seen it all
In daddy's car
Thinking you'll go far
Back east your type don't crawl

Playing ethnicky jazz
To parade your snazz
On your five-grand stereo
Braggin' that you know
How the niggers feel cold
And the slum's got so much soul

It's time to taste what you most fear
Right Guard will not help you here
Brace yourself, my dear
Brace yourself, my dear

It's a holiday in Cambodia
It's tough, kid, but it's life
It's a holiday in Cambodia
Don't forget to pack a wife

You're a star-belly snitch
You suck like a leech
You want everyone to act like you
Kiss ass while you bitch
So you can get rich
While your boss gets richer off you

Well, you'll work harder
With a gun in your back
For a bowl of rice a day
Slave for soldiers
Till you starve
Then your head is skewered on a stake

Now you can go where the people are one
Now you can go where they get things done
What you need, my son...
What you need, my son...

Is a holiday in Cambodia
Where people are dressed in black
A holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll kiss ass or crack

Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot

It's a holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll do what you're told
It's a holiday in Cambodia
Where the slums got so much soul
Pol Pot
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shardsofglass discusses the meanings of Holiday in Cambodia lyrics: The primitive end to a failed state is torture, slavery, humiliation, starvation and death. I can't help but feel the torture of the defeated people at the end who "work hard with a gun at your back for a bowl of rice a day." Then "slave for soldiers till you starve and head is skewered on a stake". How sad to end your life in the worst way, totally.humiliated by an evil gang of soldiers, more horrible than deranged sea pirates.
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Milking the Sacred Cow by Dead Kennedys
The title of this album references how the band sued Jello Biafra for $200,000 and took away the rights to his own songs so that they could sell them to videogames and commercials.
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Dead Kennedys has 16 albums from 1982 to 2019 including Milking the Sacred Cow, and Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death.