Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death

Dead Kennedys Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death Album

14.Kinky Sex Makes The World Go 'round

Greetingsthis is the secretary of war at the state department
of the united stateswe have a problem. the companies want
something done about this sluggish world economic
situationprofits h
Een running a little thin lately and we need to stimulate some
growthnow we know there's an alarmingly high number of young
people roaming around in your country with nothing to do but
stir up
Ble for the police and damage private property. it doesn't look
like they'll ever get a jobit's about time we did something
constructive with these peoplewe've got thousands of 'em here
too.
're crawling all over

The companies think it's time we all sit down, have a serious
get-togetherand start another warthe president? he loves the
idea! all those missiles streaming overhead to and
fronapalmpeo
Unning down the road, skin on firethe soviets seem up for
itthe kremlin's been itching for the real thing for years.
hell, afghanistan's no funso whadya say?we don't even have to
win thi
. we just want to cut down on some of this excess population

Now look. just start up a draft; draft as many of those people
as you can. we'll call up every last youngster we can get our
hands on, hand 'em some speed, give 'em an hour or two to learn
how t
An automatic rifle and send 'em on their waylibya? el salvador?
how 'bout northern ireland? or a 'moderately repressive regime'
in south america?we'll just cook up a good soviet t
Story in the middle eastwe need that oilwe had libya all ready
to go and colonel khadafy's hit squad didn't even show up. i
tell yathat man is unreliable. the kremlin had their fingers on
Button just like we did for that one

Now just think for a minutewe can make this war so bigso
bigthe more people we kill in this war, the more the economy
will prosperwe can get rid of practically everybody on your
dole que
We plan this right. take every loafer on welfare right off our
computer rollsnow don't worry about demonstrationsjust pump up
your drug supply. so many people have hooked themselves on hero
D amphetamines since we took over, it's just like vietnam. we
had everybody so busy with lsd they never got too strong. kept
the war functioning just fine

It's easy. we've got our college kids so interested in beer they
don't even care if we start manufacturing germ bombs again. put
a nuclear stockpile in their back yard, they wouldn't even know
w
T looked likeso how 'bout it? lookwar is money. the arms
manufacturers tell me unless we get our bomb factories up to
full production the whole economy is going to collapsethe
soviets are
E same boat. we all agree the time has come for the big one, so
whadya say?!?that's excellent. we knew you'd agreethe
companies will be very pleased.