Banned From The Roxy - Jeffrey Lewis

Banned from the Roxy… Ok

I never much liked playing there anyway

They said they only wanted well behaved boys

Do they think guitars and microphones are just toys?

Well, i’ve chosen to make my stand

Against what I feel is wrong with this land

They just sit there on their overfed asses

Feeding off the sweat of less fortunate classes

They keep their power cos their finger’s on the button

They got control and won’t let it be forgotten

The truth of their reality is at the end of a gun

The proof is all in history and is no fun

Seeing the army in your front yard

Seeing the machine guns resting on the fence

Finding the entrance to your door is bared

And they got the nerve to call back defence

Seems their defence is a just the threat of strength

Protection for the privileged at any length

The government protecting their profits from the poor

The rich and the fortunate chaining up the door

Afraid that the people may ask for a little bit more

Than the shit they get, the shit they get, the shit they get

The shit they get

Defence it’s nothing less than war

And no one but the government knows what it’s for

Oh yes they say it’s defence, say it’s decency

Mai Lai, Hiroshima, know what I mean?

The same lies with depressing frequency

They say «We had to do it to keep our lives clean»

Well whose life?

Who are they talking to?

I’ll tell you one thing, it ain’t me and you

And their systems, christ, they’re everywhere

School, army, church, the corporation deal

Our reality based on fear

A conspiracy to stop you feeling real

But they’re wrong

I’d say they’re wrong

I swear they’re wrong

I know they’re wrong

I ain’t quite ready with my gun

But we’ve always got our song

So i’ve been

Banned from the Roxy, Ok

Never much like playing there anyways