Dead Yankee Drawl lyrics
by Manic Street Preachers



(Music: James Dean Bradfield/Sean Moore; Lyrics: Nicky Wire/Richey James)Bill and Ted and Waynes World drawlJust another dull fucking boreVietnams cool now and even Superman's believedHussein in power as the media war retreatsSuck your honey until you chokeYou are a mechanism of social controlMulti-national aim of one world cultureTurning one dollar into another and anotherDead Yankee Drawl hey we got your beatDead Yankee Drawl hey we love OscarSmothering injustice seen through starving eyesTearing down a forest just to earn a buckKilled off literature for sex and violenceFed a generation the equivalent of silenceDragged Jack down to self same bigotryPassive acceptance of a consumer societyFake sentiments tying up contractsMaking idols of guitars and haircutsMulti-national aim of one world cultureTurning one dollar into another and anotherDead Yankee Drawl hey we got your beatDead Yankee Drawl hey we love OscarSmothering injustice seen through starving eyesBurning down a forest just to earn a buckDead Yankee Drawl hey we got your beatDead Yankee Drawl hey we love OscarSmothering injustice seen through Red Indian eyesSideway's walk of some Hollywood liesLet's go down to Greenwich Village and desecrateThe Noraid slogans that justify 6 counties hateLet's go down Redondo Beach and wax body companyCos reality for T.V. is Disney not King, RodneyLet's go to Indiana Youth Centre quicklyTysons money ain't as free as Junior KennedysYankeeDead YankeeDead YankeeDead Yankee Drawl(c) 1992 Sony Music Publishing Ltd.