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