“ Just say no”
Just say no, America, it’s easy.
Just say no, America the Beautiful, rather than dutifully lying back while dying black & blue in pools of oily stupor
A hypodermic barrel fed mainlined super-duper stupor
Needing the narcotic of imported crude
Feeding into damaged veins
Bleeding into deranged brains that can’t begin to explain why we were so high on the stuff we huffed & puffed but failed to participate enough at the Kyoto summit.
Of course we can’t relate, debate, participate in world ecological summits
We’d have to look at ourselves through foreign eyes, hear their impatient sighs, while studying our couch potato thighs stuffed into SUV’s exempt from miles per gallon minimums while they cringe and all say, “Just say no.”
Just say no, you addicted tricked out with way too much you shout about America.
USA! USA! Shut the fuck up for God Sake!
Just say no.
But hold steady, U.S. not ready
We know we’re not
We know we’re not because of lessons taught in California
By these fuckin’ Enron Fucks
You gotta fuck these motherfuckin’ fucks
These sleaze-ball cheese-ball grab-‘em-by-the-balls and Squeeze all
Enron Execs from Texas
Who can rot in hot pots of lots of rotten red hot ocelot snot for all I care.
Oh, I’m here to tell they’re going to hell
And no, not because they ripped off your aunts 401K
Stashed their employees cash down their pants
Inspired rants
That ain’t the way to get into hell these days
No, that’s business
Everybody steals.
Get real
That’s all they respect
What else have we come to come to expect.
No these execs leaving wrecks in their wakes have greater mistakes to atone for, to be stoned for, to burn in hell alone for.
These motherfuckers had a thought and bought up shit they really ought not have bought.
Every decent sized mom & pop alternative energy power shop in California
To eliminate the competition
Every one.
Back when they were buying and selling energy.
And what was done with every one?
Shut them down?
No, they tore them to the ground.
Destroyed, deployed munitions that toyed with little power grids getting rid of anything that might clean burn develop keeping the planet inhabitable for your kids kids
These Enron nit-wits blew the shit to bits
To keep us dependant
Like a drug-dealer on the block, chock full of cock & bull, and on the clock
Keeping your ass addicted, your class restricted, your drug prescripted, your neighborhood interdicted.
So fuck you very much
For your corporate hacks taking whacks at what we could have been about
And fuck you for your rolling blackouts that showed California just how far, and the rest of the country how addicted we all are.
And how impossible withdrawal now seems for all
So, now we’re going to rape Alaska for an emergency fix, another 800 billion barrels, or maybe only 36.
But that’s another freight to pay
Another fix, another day
If there’s a problem, they tell us true, who gives a fuck about the caribou.
There’s money to be made, pipes to be laid, de-tox to be delayed
Because who cares about unspoiled Alaskan snow
Or that whole global warming free-for-all, an even harder row to hoe
That oil monkey on our back, all he knows to do is grow
While we fix another fix so our addiction might lay low
Desperate, like a coke whore, for another line of blow
Stuck in the denial of what we pretend that we don’t know
But the curtain comes down on even the longest running show
Epically if we can’t spit out the words and Just. Say. No.