The Got No Shotgun Hydrahead Octopus Blues - David Baerwald

We got government by ignorance and lots of lobbies in a line

And stick-twirling painclerks out punching in their time

Dread damaged Democrats dangling for a dime

And paid-for paperboys there to keep the public blind

Us we got nothing no reason no clue

Just the got no shotgun hydrahead octopus blues

We got drug war arms pimps with all their paydolls in a row

The cold war cowboys need another row to hoe

Air Force C-130s flying out of Mexico

Machine guns going one way and cocaine coming home

Us we got nothing no reason no clue

Just the got no shotgun hydrahead octopus blues

The time is ripe for pure dissent

If you got money from the mob and muscle from the government…

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 witch’s coven

And the whitecoats and the technocrats are warming up their ovens

Us we got nothing no reason no clue

Just the got no shotgun hydrahead octopus blues…