I Am the Owl (Live at the Paradiso)
I am your plumber, no I never went away
I still bug your bedrooms and pick up everything you say
It can be a boring job
To monitor all day your excess talk
I hear when you're drinking and cheating on your lonely wife
I play tape recordings of you to my friends at night
We've got our girl in bed with you
You're on candid camera, we just un-elected you, ha
I am the owl
I seek out the foul
Wipe 'em away, keep America free
For clean-livin' folks like me, hey, hey
If you demonstrate against somebody we like
I'll slip on my wig and see if I can start a riot
Transform you to an angry mob
And all your leaders go to jail for my job
But we ain't the Russians, political trials are taboo
We've got our secret ways of getting rid of you
Fill you full of LSD
And turn you loose on a freeway, whee!
I am the owl
I seek out the foul
Wipe 'em away, keep America free
For clean-livin' folks like me
I send you spinning
I send you spinning
I send you spinning all over the freeway
Spinning on the crowded freeway
Spinning on the freeway, spinning on the freeway
Spinning on the freeway, spinning on the freeway
Spinning on the freeway, spinning on the freeway
Spinning on the freeway, spinning on the freeway
Spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, look out!
The press, they never even cared
Why a youth leader walked into a speeding car
In ten years or so we'll leak the truth
But by then it's only so much paper
You know, Watergate hurt
But nothing really ever changed
A teeny bit quiter but we still play our little games
But we still play our little games
But we still play our little games
We still play our little
We still play our little
We still play our little
We still play a lot of games!
I am the owl
I am the owl
I seek out the foul
Wipe 'em away, keep America free
Wipe 'em away, keep America free
Wipe 'em away, keep America free for me!
I still bug your bedrooms and pick up everything you say
It can be a boring job
To monitor all day your excess talk
I hear when you're drinking and cheating on your lonely wife
I play tape recordings of you to my friends at night
We've got our girl in bed with you
You're on candid camera, we just un-elected you, ha
I am the owl
I seek out the foul
Wipe 'em away, keep America free
For clean-livin' folks like me, hey, hey
If you demonstrate against somebody we like
I'll slip on my wig and see if I can start a riot
Transform you to an angry mob
And all your leaders go to jail for my job
But we ain't the Russians, political trials are taboo
We've got our secret ways of getting rid of you
Fill you full of LSD
And turn you loose on a freeway, whee!
I am the owl
I seek out the foul
Wipe 'em away, keep America free
For clean-livin' folks like me
I send you spinning
I send you spinning
I send you spinning all over the freeway
Spinning on the crowded freeway
Spinning on the freeway, spinning on the freeway
Spinning on the freeway, spinning on the freeway
Spinning on the freeway, spinning on the freeway
Spinning on the freeway, spinning on the freeway
Spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, look out!
The press, they never even cared
Why a youth leader walked into a speeding car
In ten years or so we'll leak the truth
But by then it's only so much paper
You know, Watergate hurt
But nothing really ever changed
A teeny bit quiter but we still play our little games
But we still play our little games
But we still play our little games
We still play our little
We still play our little
We still play our little
We still play a lot of games!
I am the owl
I am the owl
I seek out the foul
Wipe 'em away, keep America free
Wipe 'em away, keep America free
Wipe 'em away, keep America free for me!
Credits
Writer(s): Jello Biafra, East Bay Ray, D H Peligro, Klaus Fluoride
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Other Album Tracks
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- Life Sentence (Live at the Paradiso)
- Police Truck (Live at the Paradiso)
- Riot (Live at the Paradiso)
- Bleed for Us (Live at the Paradiso)
- Holiday in Cambodia (Live at the Paradiso)
- Let's Lynch the Landlord (Live at the Paradiso)
- Chemical Warfare (Live at the Paradiso)
- Nazi Punks F**k Off (Live at the Paradiso)
Altri album
- Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (2022 Mix)
- Chemical Warfare (2022 Mix)
- Iguana Studios Rehearsal Tape - San Francisco 1978
- DK 40 (Remastered) [Live]
- Milking The Sacred Cow
- Live At The Deaf Club
- Mutiny on the Bay
- Mutiny On the Bay (Live)
- Plastic Surgery Disasters/In God We Trust, Inc.
- Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
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