Cesspools In Eden Lyrics - Bedtime For Democracy - Dead Kennedys

Poison is bubbling 

Beneath your dreamhome 

Buried there years before 

Kid runs in crying 

From playing in the garden 

"Mommy, I burned my hands!" 

"What's making our eyes so itchy?" 

"Don't rub 'em—they'll swell up." 

Oh Oh Oh Oh 

It's the big waste dump 

Oh, yeah 

We built your ticky-tacky houses 

On landfill soil 

To cover up a gift 

We left you years before 

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Of toxic chemicals 

And leaking gas 

Just dig a little while, 

You'll find our acid baths 

Cesspools 

In Eden 

Oozing away... 

Groundwater's poisoned 

Air stings like hell 

The lines for doctors grow long 

Over martinis 

The company laughs 

"We don't owe you one damn thing." 

But what about all these fainting spells? 

How'd you like a lick 

From my open sores 

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And Oh....Oh Oh Oh — 

Why are our babies stillborn? 

A storage tank's leaking 

It's about to explode 

Why evacuate 

When you can watch the fun 

Nothing happens here 

Get out the lawn chairs 

We'll drink pink lemonade 

And watch Martinez burn 

Cesspools 

In Eden 

Oozing away 

Cesspools in Eden 

Leak by the day 

The land we sold you 

Is right atop our acid pits 

We fill them by the truckload 

In the dead of night 

There's thousands more toxic 

Tips of the iceberg 

We pay a little bribe 

Or we just don't report them 

And see what you get— 

Cesspools 

In Eden 

In Eden 

No accident— 

Just a little of our greed-fueled negligence 

So you've found the proof why 

Your cancer rate's shot up 

But whatcha gonna do 

When we've got all the cards 

Times Beach, Rocky Flats, 

Love Canal & Bhopal 

Merry Christmas, hostages 

From the folks who care 

Cesspools in Eden 

Oozing away 

Cesspools in Eden 

Leak by the day 

Cesspools in Eden 

Have a nice day