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Artist: PIL
Canonical path: /pil/acid-drops
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Acid Drops
Read Acid Drops lyrics by PIL on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Acid Drops
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What does it mean, what does anything mean
Sending out signals, I see the smoke screens
What is not dirty, what is not clean
What should we not hear, what shouldn't be seen
Running off verbals like a runaway truck
Who censors the censor, can I do that myself
Make up my own mind like anyone else
Forget me, forget me not
Remember me like acid drops
Mind over morals, anything banned
The zealots are marching with bible in hand
Keyed to the roof one hundred proof
Some of them hairpins, some of them clans
Desperate susans, desperate dans
Who censors the censor, can I do that myself
Make up my own mind like anyone else
You read but missed my plot
You only see that what is not
These are the clueless, living in fear
Scared of their own sex or anything clear
Still looking down proboscis crown
Vague hope and no charity
Welcome to the twenty-first century
The hush puppyhushes, a dummy dump struck
What is bad language, what shouldn't be heard
Or used as a token or used as a word
What is not dirty what is not clean
What is not filthy, what is obscene
Who censors the censor, can I do it myself
Make up my own mind, like anyone else
Forget me forget me not
Remember like me acid drops
These different colours, different style
Different cultures-these blend in a while
Prejudice prods through a big picket fence
Divided we fall without a defense
The seat of easement, the privy parliament
Petticoat merchants bent on intent
There everywhere, these tricks of the trade
Some in the light, some in the shade
(No future!)
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