Satanic Reverses

In the 1970's The OPEC nations began to dominate The world's oil economy In the 1980's, Japan became the world's Number one economic power In 1989 the nations of Eastern Europe Attempted to restructure While in the United States civil rights have Collapsed at the hands of fundamentalists And national insecurity's at an all time high Exxon and on and on and on The ministers of double speak New meanin' of clean they tried to teach us They staged the phoney shampoo of the Valdez greases Completely jheri curled the beaches Pipe bomb for the NAACP And a hit on Salman Rushdie, the Berlin Wall comes down And the U.S. cracks down on illegal aliens Ban the freedom of choice for those wantin' abortion And enforce capitol punishment Twenty four hour radio ban For indecency determined by the F.U.C.C. Why are we so anesthetized to the lies? Because we do it in our own lives We believe all the things that we want to hear But then we also love to criticize Bail out the banks loan art to the churches Satanic Reverses Bail-out the banks loan art to the churches Satanic Reverses Bail out the banks loan art to the churches Satanic Reverses Bail out the banks loan art to the churches Satanic Reverses In 1992 the European economic community will reform In 1997 the city of Hong Kong will become A part of the People's Republic of China In 1999, and this is no coincidence The nation of Panama will control it's own canal While in the United States Civil rights have collapsed at the hands of Fundamentalists And national insecurity's at an all time high Helms said ban the photograph of the piss Christ It's sacreligious not an art While we all try to discern between our cup of tea And what we call obscenity, the house's legislation Ripped the phoney foundation off what we thought inherent Sent Joey to the Supreme Court 'Cause he made a statement, they called it Desecration of the symbol that was meant to represent The freedom of so called choice and dissent They almost had me believin' it, they were bleedin' him He said, "Burn baby, burn" 'Til the street Samurai said to my face That any flag that's worth a shit Was woven from fire in the first place Bail out the banks loan art to the churches Satanic Reverses Bail out the banks loan art to the churches Satanic Reverses Bail out the banks loan art to the churches Satanic Reverses Bail out the banks loan art to the churches Satanic Reverses Bail out the banks loan art to the churches Satanic Reverses Bail out the banks loan art to the churches Satanic Reverses Bail out the banks loan art to the churches Satanic Reverses Bail out the banks loan art to the churches Satanic Reverses