It had to be flashin' like the daily double
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It had to be playin' on TV
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It had to be loud mouthed on the comedy hour
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It had to be announced over loud speakers
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The CIA and the Mafia are in cahoots
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It had to be said in old ladies' language
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It had to be said in American headlines
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Kennedy stretched and smiled and got double crossed by lowlife goons and agents
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Rich bankers with criminal connections
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Dope pushers in CIA working with dope pushers from Cuba working with a
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big time syndicate from Tampa, Florida
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And it had to be said with a big mouth
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It had to be moaned over factory foghorns
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It had to be chattered on car radio news broadcasts
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It had to be screamed in the kitchen
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It had to be yelled in the basement where uncles were fighting
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It had to be howled on the streets by newsboys to bus conductors
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It had to be foghorned into New York harbor
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It had to echo onto hard hats
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It had to turn up the volume in university ballrooms
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It had to be written in library books, footnoted
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It had to be in the headlines of the Times and Le Monde
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It had to be barked on TV
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It had to be heard in alleys through ballroom doors
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It had to be played on wire services
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It had to be bells ringing
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Comedians stopped dead in the middle of a joke in Las Vegas
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It had to be FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover and Frank Costello syndicate
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mouthpiece meeting in Central Park, New York weekends,
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reported Time magazine
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It had to be the Mafia and the CIA together starting war on Cuba,
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Bay of Pigs and poison assassination headlines
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It had to be dope cops in the Mafia
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Who sold all their heroin in America
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It had to be the FBI and organized crime working together
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in cahoots against the commies
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It had to be ringing on multinational cash registers
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A world-wide laundry for organized criminal money
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It had to be the CIA and the Mafia and the FBI together
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They were bigger than Nixon
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And they were bigger than war
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It had to be a large room full of murder
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It had to be a mounted ass- a solid mass of rage
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A red hot pen
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A scream in the back of the throat
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It had to be a kid that can breathe
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It had to be in Rockefellers' mouth
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It had to be central intelligence, the family, allofthis, the agency Mafia
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It had to be organized crime
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One big set of gangs working together in cahoots
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Hitmen
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Murderers everywhere
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The secret
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The drunk
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The brutal
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The dirty and rich
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On top of a slag heap of prisons
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Industrial cancer
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Plutonium smog
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Garbage cities
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Grandmas' bed soft from fathers' resentment
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It had to be the rulers
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They wanted law and order
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And they got rich on wanting protection for the status quo
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They wanted junkies
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They wanted Attica
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They wanted Kent State
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They wanted war in Indochina
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yeah
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It had to be the CIA and the Mafia and the FBI
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Multinational capitalists
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Strong armed squads
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Private detective agencies for the oh so very rich
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And their armies and navies and their air force bombing planes
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It had to be capitalism
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The vortex of this rage
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This competition
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Man to man
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The horses head in a capitalists' bed
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The Cuban turf
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It rumbles in hitmen
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And gang wars across oceans
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Bombing Cambodia settled the score when Soviet pilots
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manned Egyptian fighter planes
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Chiles' red democracy
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Bumped off with White House pots and pans
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A warning to Mediterranean governments
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The secret police have been embraced for decades
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The NKPD and CIA keep each other's secrets
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The OGBU and DIA never hit their own
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The KGB and the FBI are one mind
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Brute force and full of money
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Brute force, world-wide, and full of money
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Brute force, world-wide, and full of money
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Brute force, world-wide, and full of money
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Brute force, world-wide, and full of money
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It had to be rich and it had to be powerful
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They had to murder in Indonesia 500000
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They had to murder in Indochina 2000000
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They had to murder in Czechoslovakia
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They had to murder in Chile
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They had to murder in Russia
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And they had to murder in America.
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Yeah!
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Hadda Be Playing On The Jukebox
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Rage Against The Machine |