In lonely gas stations with mini-marts
You'll find rows of them for sale
Liquor-filled statues of Elvis Presley
Drink like a vampire
His disciples flock to such a fitting shrine
Sprawled across from his graceless mansion
A shopping mall
Filled with prayer rugs and Elvis dolls
And I wonder
Yeah I wonder
Will Elvis take the place of Jesus in a thousand years
Religious wars
Barbaric laws
Bloodshed worldwide
Over what's left of his myth
A growing boy needs his lunch
When pesticides get banned we're safe up north
We just sell them to those other countries
Soon there's lots of exotic deformed babies
Somehow that's not our fault
Just dip 'em in glaze paint 'em orange and green
For the Arizona roadside stands
To sell alongside plaster burros and birthbaths
And I wonder
Yeah I wonder
Why so many insects around us feed off the dead
Death squads
Starvation
Foreign aid?
Just leave it to the magic of the marketplace
A growing boy needs his lunch
Everyone should just love each other
Dip your toe into the fire
Drop your guns and lawsuits and love each other
Life begins beyond the bunker
And while you're busy hugging in the streets
Outgrowing your hatred for all to feel
Jiminy Cricket's found a game to play
Stick your neck out and trust-It'll be chopped away
Jimmy through your locked front doors
Rifle through your sacred drawers
Line my pockets
Deface your dreams
Til the cows come home to me
Nibbling like an earwig winding through your brain
Bound like Lawrence Harvey spreadeagle to a bed
The migraine gets worse when we find out we lay eggs
And no one in all of Borneo can hear you scream
Turn on
Tune in
Cop out
Drop kick Turn in Tune out
The lyrics A GROWING BOY NEEDS HIS LUNCH of DEAD KENNEDYS is also present in the album Frankenchrist (1985)
I Dead Kennedys sono una band punk americana formatasi a San Francisco negli anni '70. Conosciuti per il loro stile musicale provocatorio e le liriche politichemente impegnate, hanno raggiunto un'enorme popolarità nell'underground musicale degli anni '80. Il loro album di debutto, *Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables* (1980), conteneva singoli iconici come «California Über Alles» e «Holiday in Cambodia», che li resero famosi a livello internazionale. Nel 1981 il singolo «Too Drunk to Fuck» raggiunse addirittura le classifiche britanniche. Nel 1985, l'album *Frankenchrist* suscitò controversie per la copertina ispirata ad un dipinto di H.R. Giger, accusando la band di distribuzione di materiale osceno ai minori. Il processo che ne seguì terminò con una giuria incapace di raggiungere un verdetto, ma le pressioni legali portarono alla dissoluzione del gruppo. I Dead Kennedys si sono riuniti parzialmente all'inizio degli anni 2000 e hanno ripreso a esibirsi dal 2001.
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