Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing

by Minutemen

From the album: Double Nickels on the Dime

Duration: 01:31

Double Nickels on the Dime cover art

Lyrics for Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing

List monitors arrive with petition Iron-fisted philosophy Is your life worth a painting? Is this 'girl versus boy' with different symbols? Being born is power Scout leader Nazi tagged as big sin Your risk chains me hostage Me, I'm fighting with my head, I am not ambiguous I must look like a dork Me, naked with textbook poems Spout fountain against the Nazis With weird kinds of sex symbols in speeches that are big dance thumps If we heard mortar shells We'd cuss more in our songs And cut down, a guitar solo So dig this big crux Organizing the boy scouts for murder is wrong Ten years beyond the big sweat point Man, it was still there, ever without you coming back around, look Coming together, for just a second, a peek A guess at the wholeness that's way too big At the wholeness that's way too big

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