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Burning the Flag

How many sharkies does Strawberry Nose got to pony and poke in a week?
And how many reefies has Trumpet the Hash got to smoke till they run screaming
out of his street?
It’s so new when they make your mistakes for you now and they stuff you with
chicken fat egg
Rippling with deathing gown gasoline, darling, you should’ve been burning the
flag
It’s nobody’s business in places so vicious what low company I can keep
So keep your nose out of my incubus and never tamper with me when I’m falling
asleep
Because all of the garbage you people have dreamed of is spilling through holes
in my bag
And all of the drowning and keeping-them-downing, you should’ve been burning
the flag
Killers and dentists and similar mentalists never can sleep in the night
And Trumpet the Hash had a clash with the law but the law — surprise!
— turned out to be on his side
So cherish your horrible selfishness, seeking your pleasure you hump in the
arms of a hag
Making your horrible meaningless babies, you’re better off burning the flag
Violent philosophers tell us it’s better to slaughter the innocent void
And cynical laughter comes crashing through decor erected to voodoo the boys
In a killing machine a mechanical cockroach snatches your passport and screams
In the thousand year Reich of the meanest of meanest you’re better off burning
the flag
Killers and dentists and similar mentalists never can sleep in the night
And Trumpet the Hash had a clash with The Claw but the law — surprise!
— turned out to be on his side
You cherish your horrible selfishness, seeking your pleasure you hump in the
arms of your hags
Making your horrible meaningless babies, you’re better off burning the flag