From The Hammer Party LP
Steelworker
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Man, can we get a lot of mileage out of two notes.
The only good policeman is a dead one, the only good laws aren't enforced
I've never hung a darkie, even a big one I've never seen an Indian on a horse
And I live like this 'cause I like it, and seen too much to pretend
You can't ignore the beauty in the things that you love
Like you can't stand the hatred and the lies
Have you always hunted with your hands? Can you show me what you've done?
Have you always hunted with your hands? If you catch it, can you kill it?
You don't understand, see you don't understand
See, I'm like a murderer, see, I'm like a murderer
And I could rip you limb from limb, and I could rip you limb from limb
Great big thing crawlin' all over me, great big thing crawlin' all over me
See, I'm like a murderer, I kill what I eat
See, I'm like a, I'm a hunter-gatherer, see, I kill what I eat
See, I'm a steelworker, I kill what I eat
See, I'm, I'm a bricklayer, I kill what I eat
See, I'm a, I'm a murderer, I kill what I eat
See, I'm a, I'm a hunter-gatherer, I kill what I eat
See, I'm a steelworker, I kill what I eat
I'm a, I'm a bricklayer, I kill what I eat
Great big thing crawling all over me, great big thing crawling all over me,
great big thing crawling all over me
Have you always hunted with your hands? Can you show me what you've done?
Have you always hunted with your hands? If you catch it, can you kill it?
I live like this 'cause I like it
And I've seen too much to pretend
You can't ignore the beauty in the things that you love
Like you can't stand the hatred and the lies
See, see, see I'm a murderer, I kill what I eat
See, I'm, I'm a bricklayer, I kill what I eat
See, I'm a steelworker, I kill what I eat
It's a great big thing crawlin' all over me, great big thing crawlin' all over
me, great big thing crawlin' all over me
Live in a Hole
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No!
Huh!
Live in a room
An empty room
Four walls
White walls
I live in a hole
Huh!
No!
I live in a hole
Not some trailer park
I won't die
In a chip-to-lie?? home
I live in a hole
Huh!
I live in a hole
Huh! Hoh! Huh! Hoh!
Every day
I get less civilized
It's a lot of work
To dig in that hole
Hunh!
No!
Dead Billy
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Hey little girl in U.S. dress
Come and give daddy kiss
To Dead Billy, U.S. soldier in green
Little lady, napalm butt
Come and give head to, to
Dead Billy make you boom boom boom
Dead Billy
Dead Billy make you happy
Dead Billy make you crawl
Dead Billy put your hand in his hole
Dead Billy show you what it's like to die
This is not a love song
And this is not a kiss
For Dead Billy
Dead Billy make you happy
Dead Billy make you crawl
Dead Billy put your hand in his hole
Dead Billy show you what it's like to die
This is not a love song
And this is not a kiss
For Dead Billy
No Viet??
I Can Be Killed
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Say, John, shut me up
Just my dad
He is weak
Tried to shut me up
I just want a way
To keep me quiet
When I'm away
Shut me up
The only way
To keep me quiet
I can be killed
I can be killed
Come on
Go ahead, come on, do me in
Come on, face the dark
Gotta knock me off
Come on, come on, come on, shut me up
Try to keep me quiet
That's the only way
To shut me up
Come on
I can be killed
I can be killed
Come on
Crack
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I have never been so happy in my whole life
I've been denied this so long, I'm sure it's right
Finally, this is working
Finally, this is life
Finally, this is working
Finally, this is life
In comes the crack
And everything falls apart
In comes the bowl, nice ??
Then comes the crack
And everything comes apart
Then comes the night
Then you die
I still can't believe this
This is something I've done
I've never been so broken
I've never hurt so much
This is like a slap in the face, this is like an amputation
This is like a slap in the face, this is like an amputation
Then comes the crack
And everything falls apart
Then comes the bowl
Then you die
Then comes the crack
And everything comes apart
Then comes the night
Then you die
I still can't believe this
This is something I've done
I've never been so broken
I've never hurt so much
This is like a slap in the face, this is like an amputation
This is like a slap in the face, this is like an amputation
This is like a slap in the face, this is like an amputation
This is like a slap in the face, this is like an amputation
This is like a slap in the face, this is like an amputation
This is like a slap in the face, this is like an amputation
Then comes the crack
And everything falls apart
Then comes the bowl
Then she dies
And then comes the crack
And everything is torn apart
And then comes the night
And then she dies
RIP
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That man's shirt is worth more than your life
And I'd rather kill him than insult you
He hasn't the sense to know we're fighting
He hasn't the fear to run
We have to rip this up
It doesn't look quite right
People like that, too dirty to save
Better watch out, friend
He's gonna get torn
When I poke my fingers in it
I tear him apart
Cover your ears
They make a lot of noise
We have to rip this up
It doesn't look quite right
Cables
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Well, I don't know why we come here
Guess I just needed the bang
We watch 'em beef, and then we pull on the rope
And then the, then the hammer comes down
Cables, cables, cables
So I guess they know
I'm not no company man
But I can pull on a rope, I can kill a cow
Fast as any other fucker can
Cables, cables, cables
cDc #84: The song "Cables" -- was there any specific incident that
inspired that?
Steve Albini: There are these guys that I used to know in [Hellgate] high
school, in Montana they just really got off on going to the
slaughterhouse for entertainment. Just go to the
slaughterhouse and watch the cows get killed. That was like TV
for them. It was that or go home in the trailer park and get
drunk. Sniff glue. There was nothing else to do.
One time I remember specifically this guy telling me about
this guy who let him drag a cow into the stall. The way they
do it is pretty cool. They take a pressurized gun and drive a
bolt through the snout of a cow, and they clip a cable to
either side of the bolt. And then there's this winch that
hauls the cow into the stall, and then there's a compression
hammer that crushes the cow's skull.
This guy thought this was just about the coolest process
-- all this machinery and technology. It's just another
example of what people do for fun.
Pigeon Kill
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I haven't been to Huntington, Indiana since 1983, so I don't know if the folks
out there still kill off scores of pigeons with poisoned corn every year.
Perhaps they have opted for a more permanent solution.
Oh
This is our land
We got a right
Got a lot of birds
Got a lot of corn
I'm on a kill
This is our land
We got a right
And those are my kids
Kill every one
AwWwWw, oh momma
I'm a Mess
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Oh, honey I'm a mess
Oh, a useless set of legs
Oh, honey I'm a waste
Oh, honey I'm a wreck
But I will maintain
Time to spend
In the reading truck ??
That always runs slow
Oh, oh, honey I'm a mess
Oh, honey I'm a wreck
Oh, honey I'm a waste
Aw, honey you're a bitch
What a useless set of legs
But I will maintain
Time to save
In the leading truck ??
That always runs slow
I will maintain
Time to sing ??
In the leading truck
That always runs slow
I will maintain
Time to sing ??
In the leading truck
That always runs slow
Bitch
Texas
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This is Texas
This is redneck
This is Lone Star
This is wetback
I am Texas, I am Texas, I am Texas, I am Texas
This is Texas
This is badass
This is chain-gang
This is mustache
I am Texas, I am Texas, I am Texas, I am Texas
I am Texas, I am Texas, I am Texas, I am Texas
Seth
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"...invaded by hordes of scummy, race-mixing traitors and Red-led Marxist
mongrels demanding human rights for subhumans. Yes, once again, we see
amassed the underground army of social malcontents, racial throwbacks, and
genetically-botched black boneheads -- this army of ghetto guerrillas and
street-razor savages that has turned our cities into jungles and our schools
into battlefields. Now this army of the ignorant, the shiftless, the criminal
and the irresponsible, after receiving billions upon billions of dollars in
federal aid, for everything from free food to free abortions, they now come to
Washington, D.C. to demand a national holiday for this doubly-degenerate, Jew-
led, Red jungle bunny responsible for their freedom to lope their way through
life at the white man's expense. Martin Luther King, a mm mm mm mm, Communist
Jew, a member of no less than 62 Communist Party front groups, a black man who
lusted after white women, who embraced the teachings of a half-pint Hindu, and
a Christ-hating Jew. This criminal Communist coon, they want a national
holiday for him? Ridiculous."
Bit me
Bit me 'cause he thought I was black -- bit me, musta thought I was black
Looks like a rat, looks like a rat
Seth is just a racist dog
I don't know why he's so mean, I don't know why she's so screwed-up ??
I don't know why he's so mean, I don't know why she's so screwed-up ??
Bit me 'cause he thought I was black -- bit me, musta thought I was black
Blast me in the shack, then he sent off his dog
Seth is just a racist dog
I don't know why he's so mean, I don't know why she's so screwed-up ??
I don't know why he's so mean, I don't know why she's so screwed ??
I don't know why he's so mean, I don't know why she's so screwed-up ??
Jump the Climb
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Something angry in me doesn't like the me in you
Something angry in me doesn't like the me in you
One look in your window
I spit in your mouth
I cut up what I don't like
Don't turn around
I'm buying a knife
Racer X
Regular guy, Rex got a need
Rex, Racer X
Brother of Speed, brother of Speed, brother of sex
Shut up, Pops
Rex, Racer X
ok
Got a big white X on the top of his car
Rex keeps his speed in a little glass jar
Racer X on the road, Rex on the track
Little cartoon Nips -- Racer X on attack
OK
Just a man in a car, Racer X got a need
The Mach Five -- I need a little more speed
He's just a regular guy Racer X got a need
Come on, Pops -- I need a little more speed
Just a goddamn job, just a goddamn job, just a goddamn job, just a goddamn job
Just a goddamn job when you're hauling Trix
Just a goddamn job, Rex needs his fix
OK!
OK
Rex is the man
He's the brother of sex
Aw, shut up Pops
Here's to Rex, Racer X
OK
Shotgun
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Got a foot and a half of unregistered steel
Shake that sis, we got a street to deal
Got an inch and a half of number nine shot
Pumped up your ass in the parking lot
Sawed-off -- shotgun
Sawed-off -- shotgun
Got an inch and a half of number nine shot
All pumped up your ass in the parking lot
Got a foot and a half of unregistered steel
Shake that sis, we got a street to deal
Sawed-off -- shotgun
Sawed-off -- shotgun
(Space Invaders videogame sounds)
Bang bang bang bang
The Ugly American
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I am the ugly American -- I hate what I am
I am the ugly American -- I hate what I am
I take a picture of your founding father
I hate a picture of your local color
I take a picture of your founding father
I take a picture of your local color
We're so ugly, we're so ugly
We're so ugly
I am the ugly American, I am the ugly American, I am the ugly American
I hate what you are
Take a picture of your declasse
Take a picture and you only say
Take a picture of your ugly country
Take a picture and you only say
I am the ugly American, I am the ugly American, I am the ugly American
I hate what you are
Take a picture of your declasse, take a picture of your declasse
Take a picture and you only say, take a picture and you only say
We're so ugly, we're so ugly
We're so ugly
I am the ugly American -- I know what I am
I am the ugly American -- I am what I am
Say you're cultured 'cause you had a king?
Your little boys sleep with their sisters
I am the ugly American -- I know what I am
I am the ugly American -- I love what I am
Deep Six
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Yeah!
He was a plug-ugly son of a bitch, with a fist where most folks get their face
He was a plug-ugly son of a bitch, with a fist where most folks get their face
Me and a half dozen of us would've done him in, but he was never around except
when we were drunk
And he's not like we are, see he doesn't know his place and he thinks he's
some kind of big cheese
A buck knife, a saw blade, a lead pipe, a twelve gauge -- would've done him
in, could've put him by
A buck knife, a saw blade, a lead pipe, a twelve gauge -- I could've deep-
sixed him, wouldn't bat an eye
Well, he's not like we are, see, he drinks his Jack straight, and he sleeps
with his wife and he pays his whores
And he's not like we are, see, he drinks his Jack straight, and he sleeps in
his cab and he pays his whores
But I'm God's gift to women, they always want my dick, except for that girl
thinks I'm trash
And I'm God's gift to women, always want my dick, except for that college girl
-- I'll kill her
A buck knife, a saw blade, a lead pipe, a twelve gauge -- I would've done him
in, could've put him by
A buck knife, a saw blade, a lead pipe, a twelve gauge -- I could've deep-
sixed him, wouldn't bat an eye
A buck knife, a saw blade, a lead pipe, a twelve gauge -- could've done him
in, could've put him by
A buck knife, a saw blade, a lead pipe, a twelve gauge -- I could've deep-
sixed him, wouldn't bat an eye
A buck knife, a saw blade, a lead pipe, a twelve gauge -- I could've done him
in, could've put him by
A buck knife, a saw blade, a lead pipe, a twelve gauge -- I could've deep-
sixed him, wouldn't bat an eye
Sleep!
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My head on the ground with my mouth full of dirt
Your foot in my face is what keeps me alive
When it's over, when it's over, when it's over
When this is over, I want sleep
Opened the door with a gun in his hand
Sometimes I think I'm gonna catch it in the back
Feed me a line, I've had a few
Clean my clock, guess I had it coming
When it's over, when it's over, when it's over
When this is over, I want sleep
Hey hey hey
Hey hey hey
Hey hey hey
Hey hey hey
The Big Payback
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(James Brown cover)
Hit it!
Hit it! Ha!
I'm mad
Revenge
I'll cut your throat
I'll make amends
Ha! Ha!
I'm mad
That's a fact
Get ready, dog
For the big payback
I'm mad
Revenge
I'll cut your throat
I'll make amends
Take a walk
We'll have a talk
mm??
And my 12-gauge friend
I'm mad
That's a fact
Get ready, dog
For the big payback
Hit it! Ha!
Hit it! Ha!