| gNASHVILLE! |
| 1. I Want to be a Christian -- Intro 2. Read it in a Letter 3. Barbie Dolls 4. Wake 5. Closer to You 6. Arise, My Soul 7. Gnashville 8. Radiation 9. Johnny's Dead 10. Perish Hilton 11. Thelma and Louise were a Couple of Dishes 12. Loser's Lament 13. Leper's Logic 14. My Hope is Built 15. Zaccheus 16. Television Anesthesia 17. Hypocrisy 18. I Want to be a Christian 19. Joy 20. Rejoice 21. How Firm a Foundation |
| Track 3: Barbie Dolls |
| Chorus: Planned Parenthood makes Barbie dolls, Barbie dolls, Barbie dolls Planned Parenthood makes Barbie dolls...Barbie dolls. (2x) Verse 1: Their Barbie dolls they got no legs, got no legs, got no legs No matter how they screams and begs they...got no legs Chorus: Planned Parenthood makes Barbie dolls, Barbie dolls, Barbie dolls Planned Parenthood makes Barbie dolls...Barbie dolls. (2x) Verse 2: Their Barbie dolls they got no hands, got no hands, got no hands On disassembly lines across our land they...got no hands Chorus: Planned Parenthood makes Barbie dolls, Barbie dolls, Barbie dolls Planned Parenthood makes Barbie dolls...Barbie dolls. Planned Parenthood makes Barbie dolls, Barbie dolls, Barbie dolls Planned Parenthood makes Barbie dolls...Klaus Barbie dolls. Verse 3: Their Barbie dolls got punctured heads, bashed in heads, caved in heads With saline burns their skin's in shreds they...come out dead Chorus: Planned Parenthood makes Barbie dolls, Barbie dolls, Barbie dolls Planned Parenthood makes Barbie dolls...Barbie dolls. Planned Parenthood makes Barbie dolls, Barbie dolls, Barbie dolls Planned Parenthood makes Barbie dolls...Klaus Barbie dolls. Spoken at end: I love you, Barbie dolls. O, my sweet baby dolls. I'm coming back to get you. |
| Written by: Bob Brown Date of Writing: June, September 2008 |
| Notes After dinner with polonius, which has three great anti-abortion songs, I knew that no future moron album could be released without an anti-abortion song. I started recording for gnashville! in July, 2005, and it took more than three years to write an anti-abortion song that I liked. Immediately after the simple melody emerged, I wanted it to be different, but I couldn't change or abandon it. I admit that the lyrics--and melody--are rather uncharitable. Looking back now, I believe that the flippancy of the lyrics and casualness of the melody are how I feel that too many Christians are treating this four-decade-old and ongoing tragedy. So, whenever you see a Mattel Barbie Doll, I hope that you are reminded of the suffering that 4000 different preborn babies are experiencing today (and everyday) in the United States--and are moved to do something about it. For example, stop right where you are and pray. Musically/emotionally (same thing to me), as with all moron songs, it's all very complicated--hard to explain, is what I mean by "complicated." The bass line is one of my favorite that I've ever written. The "guitar" solo and concurrent thump-thump-thump of the kick drum are--now that I am sitting and trying to explain it--a battle cry. The spoken words at the end move me to tears; I love these little ones but often feel so powerless to help them. Klaus Barbie was a Nazi physician/scientist who experimented on and murdered children. The words spoken at the end of the song are my promise to pre-born children. I've prayed for them outside abortion clinics, gone into abortion clinics and tried to get their parents to come out and talk to me, and I've blocked the doors of abortion clinics with my body: I'll be back, my sweet Barbie dolls. |