Tuli Kupferberg
BECAUSE THE STATE
tune: chorus of "Because the Night (Belong to Lovers)"
by Patti Smith & Bruce Springsteen
Because the state belongs to fuckers Because the state belongs to them Alpha primate otherfuckers Wasps in the edenic glen & because the state was made by fuckers Because the state was made for them Pleasure-hating motherfuckers Lover-baiting sons a guns And the state holds monopoly of force "Cop killers" also mean "cops who kill" & tho the idea is somewhat coarse Wilheim Reich might hold: "That's a sexual thrill" & because the state seducts us early From 3 years on to postgrad docs: Because the state educts us early Dripdries our brains, hangs 'em out like sox & because the state thrives with armies Protects its properties thru blacks & blues Soldier boys are never called "murderers" But what the hell is what they do? & soon no doubt when we're alone The govt'll tape your cunt & my bone The state is a devil disguised as God That throws its laws like a lightening rod & this "executive committee of the ruling class" Shoves its media up our ass Will the evil of two lessers set you free? Now the question's: "To be internet or be TV?" But because the state belongs to fuhrers Because the state kills us for fun Because the state belongs to furors Because the state thinks only with the gun & because the state belongs to fuckers Because the state belongs to them Gotta underthrow them motherfuckers To return us to our edenic glen O because the state belongs to fuckers Because the state belongs to them Oh we'll have to change them all to lovers & we'll have to try & start again Yeah we'll have to change us all to lovers Oh we'll have to try to begin again.... OY!Back to Tuli interview
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