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Perhaps the most sincere, personal political song Jello Biafra's ever written

  • Bozo Skeleton- Lard from 1990

    Here today, gone tomorrow
    Don't need my self remembered
    But what I help create and leave behind
    Is important to me

    To dent the comfortably numb
    With constructive satire
    Make my life one big prank
    On a society I hate

    all that we are when we're on a stage
    Is Vaudeville jester for a day
    As an old proverb sys
    "If every fool wore a crown, we should all be king"

    My license to make fun of everyone
    Comes from knowing the biggest joke of all
    Read a heaadline the other day
    Clown dies from a pie in the face

    Can't be on stage all the time
    The public image could swallow my life
    Living up to your own myth's no fun
    Drives our best talents nuts

    CHORUS
    Bozo skeleton
    Bozo skeleton
    Bozo skeleton
    Where can I go to be me?

    Washington Stepford wives
    Think we'd be Stepford children
    If they could do away
    With the music we love the most

    Lyrics warp your children's minds
    Just a minute now, that's our job
    Your worst enemy's your own kids
    Don't talk with them, buy our lies instead

    Don't wanna hear Lee Atwater sing the blues
    Got a right to sing my way too
    Gagging those who tell it like it is
    Won't make the problems go way

    C'mon get the skeletons out of the closet
    We're all clowns in one form or another
    If we weren't hung up minding people's private lives
    We might not be so afraid of ourselves
    All kinds of drugs get fed into our heads
    Who are you to legislate what's best
    Never heard my music or read all the words
    Is it my heart they want to ban

    Seriously, go download Lard's Last temptation of Reid this song along with Forkboy and Pineapple face may be the best non dead kennedy songs jello's done. Again, this stuff makes me sad he's pretty much a dick.