INTRO: Moderate tempo, subdued backing strings and guitars
Backup Singers:
Duh duh duh duh na na nonny looby-loo. . .
V.1
Ya ignorant swine with ya newspaper hat
You read headlines making deadlines in your basement flat
Viewin evenin news ya know the press will fill you up with tripe
Still ya save the news for later on your videotape
[MUSIC PICKS UP IN POWER AND "ROCK" FEEL]
Yes you calm complacent wretch I hope you won't take no offence
You can hear in my crackin voice, just what I really meant
The politicos they play the press and they pick the news you
see
Ya lout, don't listen to the truth makers; just believe in me
CHORUS A1 (after a funky rhythmic modulation, where eighth note triplet = eighth note, anyhow to a faster tempo; like the "I can't take my hands from my face" bridge in "King of the Mountain")
The press is evil evil evil evil ee-ee-hee - -ee-hee-vil,
Just so evil evil evil evil evil ee-ee-hee - -ee-hee-ville,
man.
Don't listen to them, they're the bad guys.
Don't listen to them, they're not tellin the truth, boys.
[SPOKEN WORD: "Interview? Yeh, just a sec. See ya"]
Don't even trust the time of day
You get from the news-pay-------per.
[RETURNING TO FIRST TEMPO]
V. 2
Ya uncaring filth, don't you care about the Abos
You've soaped their story over and now we're drowning in the
bubbles
In case you missed the story tonight well I guess they got here
first
Yeh you took their land to build an op'ra house, that ain't the
worst....
I'm so angry and distressed, outraged and flat put out
Those little tribal chaps deserve much better than they got
Even know I'm white and tall and their cause is not my own
It's given me the perfect chance to thunder, shout, and moan.
CHORUS A2 {back to faster tempo}
They're just so poor poor poor poor po------or
One day we'll give the sorry bastards what for
But they deserve some dignity
They've got a culture, just like you and- - -
BRIDGE THEME from intro before the "duhîs started
We've just gotta do somethin' about it-- [2 bars instr.]
We've just gotta do somethin' about it-- [2 bars instr.]
Yeh, we've just gotta do something about it,
something about it,
something aba- ha--ha---[screaming,
falling down] Whoops!
MODIFIED MUSIC FOR a false:
V. 3
Well we do our part, yeh, I dam' well do what's right
We put moanin' in the left channel, and screamin' in the right
You can hear us carpin' in the mornin; weepin' all the night
. . . .
[different rhythm but same music continues]
People just so selfish well it makes my blood boil
We wanna take some action, ës why we burn the Midnight- - -
BRIDGE THEME 2: More syncopated, crunchier
Kvetchin' and a moanin, outraged and righteous from our soundproofed
studio
[SPOKEN WORD: "little more echo please, yes, that's it--]\
We sound so motivational, dam' shame we don't get more play time
on the...radio- - - (oh woe woe woe is us)
Anyway- - -
BACKUP SINGERS ON SCAT, as in the intro:
Duh duh duh duh na na na nonnna loo by loo
Duh duh dun na na na na nonny lo by la loo ...dit-dit-dit
THE REAL V. 3
Well I tell ya I'm just so bloody outraged mate
In-dif-fer-rence, missed justice, ignorance and hate
Politics and priv'leges, pestilence and war
Mother Nature on welfare, and trash upon my floor
Well I tell you I'm so doggam angry man
I just gotta make that difference, I find I'm forced to take
my stand
So I tell you how I'll fight it, gonna (hmm hmm) phone the band
Make up another protest song, gonna rave and rant
[starting a transition now]
Then the bostards will see that it's so signif-i-cant. . .
[THE FOLLOWING USES THE "EVIL EVIL EVILî music, singing in the breaks]
Gotta goad, gotta goad ëem on
[THEN THE "POOR POOR POOR" music with b/u singers going, and the following
words in the interval]
Gonna pour, gonna load it on
[HALF SPOKEN, HALF SUNG, PG continues...]
Marching songs for an as-yet-unidentified army
Don't know who they'll be who'll fight off those who'd harm me
[THE FOLLOWING TO BE A REALLY ASTOUNDING PERIOD OF NEW INVENTION IN
MUSIC. . . . . . ]
FREEFORM VERSICLES
I really really really hope that someone'll take up the call
A hundred thousand throats raised in a defiant, devastating bawl
A shoutin and a singin like the armies of the Lord
A caterwaulin' battlecry like ya never heard. . .
[SOTTO VOCE]
And afterwards, we'll clean it up so you can-
[RETURNING TO FULL VOICE]
-make out ev'ry word!
They'll shout it
And bellow
I'll tell you, my fellow
The bostards'll quake in their ironclad boots
When they hear, when they hear, when they hear
What we've wrote/What they've heard: [Here the singers sing different versions of this line, and then berate each other]
[Transition to coda: snare drum on military rhythms, strings, gong, chimes, piano, organ, perhaps even bagpipes; this somewhat like the long fadeout of "One Country"]
LAYER ONE: B/U singers (repeating layer by layer till all sound
together)
Duh duh duh, etc.
LAYER TWO: A solo voice, NOT PG
Song, complainin' song, etc.
LAYER THREE:PG singing rather like the verse, recorded in two takes
so the lines can fade over each other
Well I tell ya I'm doin all that I can-----
[overlapping to next line]
Yeh I tell ya that's how they know that I'm a man---
[overlapping to next line]
I bitch and I moan as I sit listenin in on my cans----
[and again...]
And perhaps, someone might possibly take some ac-tiaan---
REPEAT WITH YELPING...FADE OUT LAYERS ONE BY ONE TO JUST ACOUSTIC GUITAR AND ORGAN---FALTERING--A T W A N G sound...
PG SPOKEN VOICE
Damn guitar string! [MUSIC JUST BREAKS OFF: NO FADE OUT]