Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime (Original Vinyl) Side George

Tracklist:

01. You Need the Glory 0:03
02. The Roar of the Masses Could Be Farts 2:07
03. Mr. Robot's Holy Orders 3:27
04. West Germany 6:33
05. The Politics Of Time 8:22
06. Themeselves 9:35
07. Please Don't Be Gentle with Me 10:52
08. Nothing Indeed 11:41
09. No Exchange 13:03
10. There Ain't Shit on T.V. Tonight 14:55
11. This Ain't No Picnic 16:29
12. Spillage 18:27

Lyrics:

1. "You Need the Glory" (Hurley) -- 2:01
ba dip dup ba diddy
hey
etc

2. "The Roar of the Masses Could be Farts" (Vandenberg, Watt) -- 1:20
soft and understanding eyes of the young
moving with abandon atop the green lawns
malleable as luck allows faking all the ties
forced out in time
these expressions met

improvised inventions lost in the way
absolute the course which instinct betrays

grinding in reversal outdo til done
proper naked self solutions surround
in brightness be it real blinding and free
pastel gems hit pearlesque in plan

spark of the instant challenging the time
view the observer's plagiarizing hands

3. "Mr. Robot's Holy Orders" (Hurley) -- 3:05
Forced-fed
sifted
tin can
turn handle
puppet
pull toy

4. "West Germany" (Boon)-- 1:48
has it been forty years
still a hostage
new kind of fascist
there in West Germany

a people, a battlefield
East and West
the lines are drawn
how are you to live

the fear of death is so close
crimes are in our heads
are we ignorant and blind
afraid to swallow our pride
5. "The Politics of Time" (Watt) -- 1:10
man's law
man creates hitler
from the grass roots
to the u.n.
a year, a minute
man's setting watches

on/off hitlers
time dictates
order
we must schizo
to brave the
bullshit

we're time nazis
we strip out tunes
we jam econo
it makes
us
stench

6. "Themselves" (Boon) -- 1:17
All these men who work the land
should evaluate themselves and make a stand
Can't they see beyond the rhetoric,
and lies and promises that don't mean shit?

and all the men who learned to hate them
and all the men who learned to hate them

They keep themselves hidden away,
they keep themselves up on the hill
the president will have to pay
for all the crimes upon their heads

and all the men who learned to hate them
and all the men who learned to hate them

7. "Please Don't Be Gentle with Me" (Baiza) -- 0:46
Just wake me up and tug my hair
and let me know
all the outside of the world and you are there
and never be too gentle with me

8. "Nothing Indeed" (Hurley, Watt) -- 1:21
The interruption went
small snag in life
pot-hole in the road
it's only a detour

a minor deterrent
that can't unload
my examination
from a to b.

there is no cause
no cause at all
for my hesitation
nothing indeed

9. "No Exchange" (Hurley, Watt) -- 1:50
Everything that's been,
the future's smashed,
carbon copy dream
pipe down the drain

the anxious cast's
fighting for the next play

too late, too late
for what mistake?
no cash in no exchange
too late, too late

10. "There Ain't Shit on T.V. Tonight" (Hurley, Watt) -- 1:34
How can I
make an outline of myself?
where's the guidelines?
for the profiles?
for my country?
how do others see me?
I'm worried
worried but feel guilty.
The media
robs and betrays us
no more lies
we are responsible

11. "This Ain't No Picnic" (Boon) -- 1:56
working on the edge
losing my self respect
for a man the presides over me
the principles of his creed
punch in punch out
8 hours, 5 days
sweat pain and agony
on friday I'll get paid

this ain't no picnic
this ain't no picnic
this ain't no picnic
this ain't no picnic

hey mister don't look down on me
for what I believe
I got my bills and the rent
I should pitch a tent
but our land is not free
so I'll work my youth away
in the place of a machine
I refuse to be a slave

this ain't no picnic
this ain't no picnic
this ain't no picnic
this ain't no picnic

12. "Spillage" (Watt) -- 1:51
A clear and dusty day in june
(my stoned mind just spilled that line)
describing what's it like describing
believing that the sum is "yes"

looking around at all my comrades
(my police state mind just spilled that line)
I want to give names to our bonds
I need names to play the game

"but what makes my heart
run
why
the thunder in my thighs?"

my body,
my mind
the idea of my life seems like a
symbol