Testo Folk Song - Bongwater
Testo della canzone Folk Song (Bongwater), tratta dall'album The Power of Pussy
I met an anarchist in Tompkins Square Park
He was an angry man, spitting words so dark
He called for death to rich men, death to yuppies too
Death to art fags, bourgeois blacks, death to landlord Jews
Kill the bankers, kill the cops, kill him, her and me
Kill them all for CBS, NBC, ABC, TBN, CNN, HBO, Live at Five
MTV, Street Break, Audio Weekend, Saturday Night Live
Jesse Raphael, Geraldo, Oprah, Arsenio, Regis and Kathie Lee
And I said, "Hey, I admire your get-up-and-go
Your youthful, brooding, unsexually-charged enthusiasm
And all your other utterly naïve and
Thoroughly endearing adolescent qualities
And I bet you can keep it up all night, can't you?
But I bet you don't even use a rubber
No, you don't even use a rubber
No, you don't even use a rubber"
And you can't, you can't, you can't even use a rubber
Or else you think you're gonna live forever
Oh, you have this adorable and misguided notion
That death is something really radical and cool
But I still can't help being wildly attracted
To your fresh-faced, uncompromised, tattooed, rebel stance
And goddamn, I'd like to help you sing your tune
But I've been making friends with this here death
And it seems a mite too soon
And I said, "Hello, Death
Goodbye, Avenue A"
I'm getting tired of waiting
Tired of being afraid
Joseph Campbell gave me hope
And now I have been saved
So I say, "Hello, Death
Goodbye, Avenue A"
Now I'm not trying to be flippant here
Or irreverent or exploitive or sarcastic or ironic or post-modern
And this is not a parody
Get it? Got it? Good
I've been thinking of what he told me
That it's okay to cry
When we held the crystal
Tina Child spent twelve grand to buy
Homeopathic mattress
Fresh-squeezed wheatgrass juice
Doctors off in Bellevue
Doctors Salk and Seuss
And it's time we'll all be going home
If you can find the way
Yes, everyone is going home
Going home to stay
And it's time we find a way to cope
A way to find some hope
For some it's the Bible or Buddha or Mohammed or Krishna
Or cheesecake or bourbon or The Butthole Surfers or Giorgio Armani
Or Romeo Shilley and you really can't afford it
But it looks so fabulous on you
So why don't you take it on home
And speaking of home
Isn't it about time you moved out of that East Village hellhole
You know, the one with the Honeymooners view
With the brick wall out the window?
Because you deserve something more affirming
Like a tree or a flower or a patch of grass
Or a singing little bluebird
Or maybe you just wanna take your boyfriend to Europe
'Cause he's never been
Or quit the job you always hated
Or learn how to play the guitar (it's easy)
Or get obscenely drunk in a piano bar
And sing show tunes, show tunes
And don't be embarrassed
Because at this point I'd rather see Brigadoon
Than Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Or maybe you'd like to get politically active
So you disrupt a presidential press conference
By shoving a five-pound week-old stalk of broccoli
Between those thin-lying lizard lips
That no one can read anyway
Because half the country's illiterate
And the other half is apathetic
Including the First Lady who couldn't step
Just five hundred feet out of the overdecorated White House
To visit the goddamn quilt
Or maybe you'd like to put a bullet into Jesse Helms' pea-brain
But you know, when you start thinking like that
When you start thinking like they do
That it's time to let go of the material world
So maybe you'd just like to get yourself some religion
'Cause Jesus is the way, Jesus is the way
Jesus is the way, Jesus is the way
Jesus is the way
Besides, it's a lot easier to accept
Jesus Christ as your personal savior
When he looks like Willem Dafoe
But maybe that stuff turns you off
So you rent Power of Myth
It made me feel really good for about ten minutes
Or maybe you'd just rather do acid and listen to Led Zeppelin
Then again, the last time I took hallucinogenic drugs was about five
Years ago. I took mushrooms in Joshua Tree looking for that Carlos
Castaneda kind of experience. I got off and the boyfriend didn't
He fell asleep, left me alone with the television. Turned it on
Put on PBS. You know what was on? Berlin Alexanderplatz. So I
Start watching it, and you know what? I got really bummed out
And that's when I said no to drugs, no to drugs, no, no, no, no
No, hell no to drugs. And maybe you wanna say no to drugs too or
Maybe you just wanna join Atheists of America, the Madonna Fan Club
Or watch Richard Gere follow the Dalai Lama across the world and
Into those oh so Zen-like movies with those oh so Zen-like messages
Like, "Hey, it's fun to be a prostitute. I can't wait to spread my
Legs across Hollywood Boulevard because then maybe some rich handsome
Billionaire in a Jag will come driving up and take me shopping on
Rodeo Drive." And that's what a woman's all about anyway, right?
Sucking and shopping
Sucking and shopping
Sucking and shopping
Sucking and shopping
Sucking and shopping
Sucking and shopping
Come on, it's a sing-along
Sucking and shopping
Sucking and shopping
Sucking and shopping
Sucking and shopping
But hey, who am I to argue? 'Cause it's the feel-good movie
Of the summer, it's the feel-good movie of the year, it's
The feel-good movie of the '90s, it's the feel-good movie of
The millennium and you know what? If it puts a smile on your
Face and a song in your heart and a spring in your step, well
Whatever makes you happy
Whatever makes you happy
Whatever makes you happy
Whatever makes you happy
Whatever makes you happy
Whatever makes you happy
Whatever makes you happy
Whatever makes you happy
Whatever gives you hope
Even if it's a truly tasteless joke
So fax a manifesto, pencil in a date
Let me know when something gives, I hope it's not too late
'Cause I'm getting tired of waiting, tired of being afraid
Joseph Campbell gave me hope and now I have been saved
So I sing
Hello death, goodbye Avenue A
Hello death, goodbye Avenue A
Hello death, goodbye Avenue A
Hello death, goodbye Avenue A
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Writer(s): Ann Eleanor Magnuson
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