Suburbia Overture / Greetings from Mary Bell Township! / (Vampire) Culture

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Do-wop, ba, do-wop, ba, do-wop, ba, do, ba-ba-ba

Do-wop, ba, do-wop, ba, do-wop, ba

Good Morning


White picket fences

Barbed wire and trenches

Trick or Treat, Merry Christmas

Howdy Neighbour, Thank You Jesus

Oh, what is he building in that painted lady?

A participation trophy wife or blonde, blue-eyed baby?

Wide-eyed and wired, the snap-crackle-pop of Geiger

Camouflage billboards for lead-lined Brooks Brothers

You elbow the jukebox and sing "Duck and Cover"

And breed out our incisors, feed on white wine and pfizer it don't look like survival

B-but buy now or die


Suburbia

You're not alone

The lights are on

But no one's home

So, welcome home


Myers-Briggs, OKULTRA

Takes a village to fake a whole culture

Your ear to the playground, your eye to the ball

Your head in the gutter, your brains on the wall

Oh well

Home is where the heart is

You ain't homeless, but you're heartless

It's the safest on the market

But you still gotta watch where you park it


So give me your half-life crisis

I can tell that you know where paradise is

Where parasites don't care what your blood type is

Only pheromones and serotonin decide

If it's true that a snowflake only matters in a blizzard

Everybody knows that nobody knows that

Everybody's all up in my, everybody's all up in my

Everybody's all up in my business


Suburbia

You're not alone

The lights are on

But no one's home

So, welcome home


Ch-ch-chameleon peacocks are talk of the town

Well, word gets around on hit number stations

He cums radiation

The dog bites the postman while basement eyes dream

Of a night at the drive-in with a AR-15


I dropped my eyeballs in the bonfire, we fucked on a bed of nails

I caught Kuru from your sister and died laughing in jail

Smell those screaming teenage sweetbreads on the 4th of July grill

Smile and wave, boys, kiss the cook, live laugh and love, please pass the pills


It's only culture, it's only culture

It's only culture, sulfur, smoke, and soot

You learned to torture house cats like vultures

You cocked and sucked your lack of empathy, pulled the trigger

With your foot to prove you've got


Blood, didn't they want your blood?

So why apologize for being blue and cold?

Blood, didn't they want your blood?

So don't apologize for being blue and cold


It's only culture, it's only culture

It's only ah, ah, ah, ah

Culture's not your friend

Hey, fuck your culture, I ain't got no culture

It's only culture, and it's more afraid of you than you are of it

Go on, drink that


Blood, didn't they want your blood?

So why apologize for being blue and cold?

Blood, didn't they want your blood?

So don't apologize for being blue and cold


Were you Nabokov to a Salinger?

Jung to Freud or Dass to Leary?

Were you mother, daughter, subject, and author?

You don't make rules, you just write them down and do it by the book you throw around


Do you know the difference between blazing trails and slash-and-burn?

Going against the grain and catching splinters?

You pull out your Rorschach like a paint-by-numbers map

The ink upon your jigsaw piece trace you back to your fingertips

Well Lot he had his lot in life, Job his job and I guess you'll too, and die

The Lord looked down, said, "hey, you're only mortal"

Giveth and taketh away 'til things come out a certain way

Leave you wondering when they might go back to normal



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