The Myth Is Real - Let's Eat Lyrics - Nomeansno

In san francisco you can be mayor at 18 

But ya gotta be 26 to drive a cab 

What goes on 

Is not what we're told to see 

Patrick henry said "Give me liberty or death" 

A the time he owned 65 slaves 

The myth is real - Let's eat 

Fake patriots say you can't burn the flag 

But guess who whines the most 

'bout having to pay taxes 

To their country 

Decay 

Decline 

Cover up 

Refine 

Dow Jones 

Where's home 

When everything we lean on 

Is up for sale 

Ad lady purrs, "Drink our liquor, you'll get laid" 

Next billboard says, "Don't drink and drive" 

What goes on is not what we're told to see 

Panic! Panic! War on drugs 

But you can buy beer at gas stations 

The myth is real - let's eat 

Pagan priests first used perfume 

To mask the smell of burning flesh 

Back in ancient Rome 

The statues were unscrewed 

Leaders change - just replace the heads 

Decay 

Decline 

Cover up 

Refine 

We are 

In life 

Roulette wheel 

Or the ball inside 

Anyone out there stopped to think 

What our lives might be like today 

If Karl Marx was as good a salesman 

As Walt Disney 

The bacon brought 

You home to cook 

The lobster lets 

Itself get boiled 

Looks too hard to climb 

Out of the pot with all the crabs 

Fear the unknown 

Who taught you that? 

One hundred million trees a year 

Get made into junk mail no one reads 

What goes on is not what we're told to see 

Half of all americans don't read books 

I'm one of them, but you're reading this 

The myth is real - let's eat 

General Robert E. Lee 

Freed his slaves before Grant freed his 

Brian Willson's legs 

Severed by a train 

The crew sues him for stress 

Levis were once made of hemp * 

From the marijuana plant 

One acre makes four times more paper 

Than an acre of trees 

More protein than soy beans 

Threat to logging companies 

Du Pont and tobacco barons 

Got it banned in '37 

The world is made of connections 

So many sheep in wolf's clothing 

Scary times are never dull 

How long before our empire falls 

No one wants the Pentagon 

Toilets for six hundred bucks 

Japanese spend twice as much 

On pinball as defense 

Meanwhile concerned citizens 

In Albany, Oregon 

Try to ban a book 

'Cos it makes fun of Santa Claus 

We're told 80% of people like the President in the polls 

While only 15% believe he's in control 

And 64% of lowans surveyed 

Want to be reincarnated as themselves 

Wowee...