portrait.jpg (18321 octets) Portrait of an American Family
1. Prelude (the Family Trip)
2. Cake and Sodomy
3. Lunchbox
4. Organ Grinder
5. Cyclops
6. Dopehat
7. Get Your Gunn
8. Wrapped in Plastic
9. Dogma
10. Sweet Tooth
11. Snake Eyes and Sissies
12. My Monkey
13. Misery Machine
14. End Track

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1. Prelude (The Family Trip)
there's no earthly way of knowing
which direction we are going
there's no knowing where we're going
or which way the wind is blowing
is it raining?
is it snowing?
is a hurricane blowing?
not a speck of light is showing
so the danger must be growing
all the fires of hell are glowing
is the grizzly reaper mowing?
yes! the danger must be growing! (faster, faster)
for the rowers keep on rowing (faster, faster)
and they're certainly not showing (faster, faster)
any signs that they are slowing (faster, faster)
stop the boat...

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2. Cake and Sodomy
I am the god of fuck, I am the god of fuck
virgins sold in quantity
herded by heredity
red-neck-burn-out-mid-west-mind
"who said date rape isn't kind?"
porno nation, evaluation
what's this, "time for segregation"
libido, libido fascination
too much oral defecation
white trash get down on your knees

time for cake and sodomy
time for cake and sodomy
(I am the god of fuck, I am the god of fuck)
vcr's and vasoline
tv fucked by plastic queens
cash in hand and dick on screen
who said god was ever clean?
bible belt 'round anglo waste
putting sinners in their place
yeah, right, great if you're so good
explain the shit stains on your face
white trash get down on your knees, time for cake and sodomy
yeah, time for cake and sodomy
time for cake and sodomy

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3. Lunchbox
on we plow
the big bully try to stick your finger in my chest
try to tell me, tell me he's the best
i don't really give a good goddamn 'cause
got my lunchbox and i'm armed real well
got my lunchbox and i'm armed real well
i got my lunchbox and i'm armed real well
I wanna grow up

I wanna be
a big rock and roll star
I wanna grow up

I wanna be
so no one fucks with me
got the pencils in my pocket, try to put me down
wanna go out, gotta get down to the playground
gonna throw down at the playground
i wanna go out...
next motherfucker gonna get my metal
next motherfucker gonna get my metal
next motherfucker gonna get my metal
next motherfucker

pow pow pow, pow pow pow, pow pow pow, pow pow pow
I wanna grow up

I wanna be
a big rock and roll star
I wanna grow up

I wanna be
so no one fucks with me

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4. Organ Grinder
I am the face of piss and shit and sugar
I do a crooked little dance with my funny little monkey
what i want, what i want is just your children
I hate what i have become to escape what i hated being
calliopenis envy from your daddy
you're not gonna hear what he don't want to hear
what I say disgusts him
he wants to be me and that scares him
let's do a funny little dance with my funny little monkey
the black keys
here is my real head
I wear this fucking mask because you cannot handle me
here is my real head
they try to blink me not to think me
don't want to bring me out
I am the rotten teeth, my fists are lined with suckers
my prison skin's an eyesore-mirror-sketch-pad
I am your son, your dad, your fag, I am your fad
here is my real head
I wear this fucking mask because you cannot handle me
here is my real head

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5. Cyclops
cyclops woman got one eye in her head
mascara-clotted vision she is fed
cyclops woman can't see nothing at all
she got a pin-prick-spiral hole, yeah
she can't see nothing, nothing at all
she can't see nothing, nothing at all
cyclops woman dying in her shell
guilt got her trapped in nailed in well
cyclops woman is the eye of the world
who's reflection's in the retina?
she can't see nothing, nothing at all
she can't see nothing, nothing at all
dialate, dialate

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6. Dope Hat
I peek into the hole, I struggle for control
the children love the show
but they fail to see the anguish in my eyes
fail to see the anguish in my eyes
I scratch around the brim
I let my mind give in yeah, yeah
the crowd begins to grin
but they seem to scream when darkness fills my eyes
seem to scream when darkness fills my eyes
it's no surprise
fail to see the tragic, turn it into magic
my big top tricks will always make you happy
but we all know the hat is wearing me
my bag is in the hat
it's filled with this and that
my vision's getting fat
the rabbit's just a monkey in disguise
stars and pills and needles dance before our eyes
they will bite the hand if it is slower than
the quickness of their scrutinizing eyes
fail to see the tragic, turn it into magic
my big top tricks will always make you happy
but we all know the hat is wearing me
chicanery will always make you happy
but we all know the hat is wearing me

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7. Get Your Gunn
goddamn your righteous hand
I eat innocent meat
the housewife i will beat
the prolife i will kill
what you won't do i will
I bash myself to sleep
what you sow i will reap
I scar myself you see
I wish i wasn't me
I am the little stick
you stir me into shit
I hate therefore i am
goddamn your righteous hand
goddamn, goddamn
goddamn, goddamn
pseudo-morals work real well on the talk shows for the weak
selective judgements, good-guy badges don't mean a fuck to me
I throw a little fit
I slit my teenage wrist
most that i can learn
is in records that you burn
get your gunn, get your gunn

get your gunn, get your gunn
pseudo-morals work real well on the talk shows for the weak
selective judgements, good-guy badges don't mean a fuck to me
pseudo-morals work real well on the talk shows for the weak
don't mean a fuck to me
I am the vhs
record me with your fist
want me to save the world
I'm just a little girl
pseudo-morals work real well on the talk shows for the weak
but your selective judgements and good-guy badges

don't mean a fuck to me
get your gunn, get your gunn

get your gunn, get your gunn...get

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8. Wrapped in Plastic
guilt is a snake we beat with a rake
grow in our kitchen in the pies we bake
feed it to us to squirm in our bellies
twisting our guts melt our spines to jelly
stay, don't want to go now, stay...
drove the children from their chores
handcrafted housewives into whores
fear of the beast calling it near
creating what we're hating, it's fear that is here
stay, don't want to go now, sta
come into our home, won't you stay?
I know the steak is cold, but it's wrapped in plastic
come into our home, won't you stay?
I know the steak is cold, but it's wrapped in plastic
I'm only as deep as the self that i dig
I'm only as sick as the stick in the pig
"thin and so white, thin and so white"
daddy tells the daughter mommy's sleeping at night
wash away sin, take off your skin
the righteous father wears the yellowist grin
"don't wanna go now"
stay, don't wanna go now, stay
stay, don't wanna go now, stay
come into our home, won't you stay?
i know the steak is cold, but now it's wrapped in plastic

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9. Dogma
burn the witches, burn the witches
don't take time to sew your stitches
burn the witches, burn the witches
good is the thing that you favor, evil is your sour flavor
you cannot sedate all the things you hate
burn your bridges, burn your bridges
don't take time to sew your stitches
burn your bridges, burn your bridges
good is the thing that you favor, evil is your sour flavor
I don't need your hate, I decide my fate
you cannot sedate all the things you hate

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10.Sweet Tooth
Her heart shivers in my hand
she's melting on me like cotton candy
I make the faces that make you cry,
I want you more when you're afraid of me
my disease, disease is draining me
anymore you're not so "pretty please"
disease, disease is draining me
I want you more when you're afraid of me
I will break you inside out
you are mine, you are mine
I will break you inside out
you are mine, you are mine
her hair hangs in swollen strings
I'm choking on her, it feels so sickening
I make the faces that make you cry
I want you more when you're afraid of me
my disease, disease is draining me
anymore you're not so pretty please
disease, disease is draining me
I want you more when you're afraid of me
I will break you inside out
you are mine, you are mine

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11. Snake Eyes and Sissies
wrench is just a household god but I carry mine with pride
I don't work but I can work with it to split your smile
run you down without a twitch, your car's just not as big as mine
tear a son out of your blitch and sprinkle your remains with lime
I ain't no workin' man, I do the best I can, I got the devil's hand
rollin' sixties
I am the habit man, I use up all I can, I got the slacker's hand
my afternoon's remote control
day dream milk and genocide
tranquility with broken knees, silly putty ennemies
butter knife in your side
what I got I got for free, middle finder technology
what's yours is mine, yours is mine, told you fucker, yours is mine
snake eyes and sissies
I ain't no workin' man, I do the best I can, I got the devil's hand
rollin' sixties
I am the habit man, I use up all I can, I got the slacker's hand
I am the pedophile's dream
a messianic peter pan
just a boy, just a boy, just a little fucking boy, I can never be a man
I ain't no workin' man, I do the best I can, I got the devil's hand
rollin' sixties
I am the habit man, I use up all I can, I got the slacker's hand
I ain't no workin' man, I do the best I can, I go the devil's hand
I am the habit man, I use up all I can, I got the slacker's hand
(oh no, oh no)

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12. My Monkey
I had a little monkey
I sent him to the country and I fed him on gingerbread

along came a choo-choo, knocked my monkey coo-coo
and now my monkey's dead
at least he looks that way, but again don't we all?
(what I make is what I am, I can't be forever)
I had a little monkey
I sent him to the country and I fed him on gingerbread
along came a choo-choo, knocked my monkey coo-coo
and now my monkey's dead
poor little monkey
make you...break you...make you...break you...lookout
9what I make is what I am, I can't be forever)
we are our own wicked gods
with little "g's" and big dicks
sadistic and constantly inflicting a slow demise
I had a little monkey I sent him to the country
and I fed him on gingerbread
along came a choo-choo, knocked my monkey coo-coo
and (k)now my monkey's dead
the primate's scream of consonance is a reflection
of his own mind's dissonance

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13. Misery Machine
man in the front with a sinister grin, careen down highway 666
we wanna go, crush the slow, as the pitchfork bends the needles grow
my arms are wheels, my legs are wheels, my blood is pavement
we're gonna ride to the abbey of thelema, to the abbey of thelema
blood is pavement
the grill in the front is a sinister grin, bugs in my teeth make me sick sick sick
the objects may be larger than they appear in the mirror
my arms are wheels, my legs are wheels, my blood is pavement
we're gonna ride to the abbey of thelema, to the abbey of thelema
blood is pavement
"when you ride you're ridden, when you ride, you're ridden"
I am fucked by filth and fury
do what I will, I will hurry there, there
my arms are wheels, my legs are wheels, my blood is pavement
blood is pavement

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14. End Track
Go home to your mother - doesn't she ever watch you?
Tell her this isn't some communist day care center.
Tell your mother, I hate her!
Tell your mother, I hate you!
I want my son off of your mailing list; I have already contacted the post office for your pornographic material that is being received in the mail. My next stop is my attorney. I do not want this number called anymore and I do not want anything delivered to my address. If I receive anything else from this band, or this group, my next phone call will be my attorney and you will be contacted. Thank you and goodbye.

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