The Got No Shotgun Hydra Head Octopus Blues (David Baerwald)

We got government by ignorance, lots of lobbies in a line
Stick-twirling painclerks out punching in their time
Dread-damaged Democrats dangling for a dime
And paid-for paperboys that keep the public blind
Us, we got nothing, no reason, no clue
Just got no shotgun hydra head octopus blues
We’ve got Drug War operatives, all their paydolls in a row
Cold War cowboys need another row to hoe
Air Force C-130’s flying out of Mexico
Machine guns going one way, cocaine coming home
Us, we got nothing, no reason, no clue
Just got no shotgun hydra head octopus blues
The time is ripe for pure dissent,
If you’ve got money from the mob and muscle from the government
The time is ripe for pure dissent,
If you’ve got money from the mob and muscle from the government
When you blow off one head, you get another dozen
The Money Gods of Washington got a lot of waiting cousins
Bellies full of Cutty Sark and faces ripe for mugging
The tyrant and the mob are joined up like a witches’ coven
And the white coats and the technocrats are warming up the ovens
We got nothing, no reason, no clue
Just got no shotgun hydra head octopus blues
Dragged downtown by the FBI
Possession of mob money, the hundred bill lie
Take me to the bus with a hundred other guys
Some guy who said: “Sorry you people got to die!”
We got nothing, no reason, no clue
Just got no shotgun hydra head octopus blues
We’ve got nothin’, got nothin’ . . .

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