Disgraceland - Dave Clarke

Someone asked me yesterday

About the history of pop

What’s it all about

It’s all about what

The sound of the city collapsing

Give me something new in Rock 'n' Roll

Punk without pogo — I wanna be terrible too!

White shirt / black pants / skinny tie

Cultural icons / suburban teen riot / cliché

In one song

Disgraceland

Disgraceland

Autocratic taskmaster

This is just a pop song

It’s a «would be», a «has been» hit

Record cheap commodity

And Johnny Rotten is a nobody

What’s it’s all about?

It’s all about what

Disgraceland

Disgraceland

Oh you wrecker of civilization

And you make music?

We are famous and we haven’t even sold one record

Take out your encyclopedia

And you don’t like monday?

Well I hate sundays

What’s it all about?

Disgraceland

Disgraceland

Are you punk, self thought, D I Y (Die!) or New Wave

Musicly comprised of shitty theoretical pop songs drenched in lala’s

Supported by major label hype

Yeah

Well I’ve took a spin on the celebrity couch

Ooooh baby

Aah yes, we improvise always on stage

Press press, test, press, feed the frenzy

We want to make you feel uncomfortable

Babylon is burning

Another record mogul is earning

What’s it all about

Disgraceland

Disgraceland

The most outrageous, brilliant, controversial, scandalous and extraordinary pop

star of our time

We own you!

Going after the money

In the land of milk and … hmmm

The desire begins with the demand to live

Not as an object, but as a subject of history

They were terrible

I thought they were great

I want to be terrible too!

What kind of trouble can I get into

Don’t do it yourself but with everybody else

Megalomaniac / power trips / complete control /

Wake up / learn techniques to unlearn / build it up / smash it down / fuck the

pain away

A song based on nothing — wonder of wonder

Rhythms international

The world is nothing

And we make the music

I hurl my song at the world

This IS actually happening

It’s not yesterday

Music seeks to change life — life goes on

The music is left behind

And this is the end of the song