[Johnny Watson] Would ya b’lieve it
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Uh-huh, don’t even care
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Uh-huh, listen!
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I said
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I-I-I-I
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Talkin’ ‘bout this evenin’
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DON’T EVEN CARE
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So let me tell you why this evenin’
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Listen, not enough have been said
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I-I-I-I
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About the white, the blue and the red
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DON’T EVEN CARE
|
So everybody just a-runnin’ off scared
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And I, OW!
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I’ll tell you that
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I-I-I-I
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Talkin’ ‘bout ME, y’all
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DON’T EVEN CARE
|
I don’t even care
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No I don’t, no I don’t
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Listen, standin’ in the bread line
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I-I-I-I
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Everybody lyin’ an’ lyin’
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DON’T EVEN CARE
|
Ain’t nobody doin’ fine?
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O-OW, let me tell you why
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I said, OW!
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I-I-I-I
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I’m talkin’ ‘bout… I…
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Don’t even…
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DON’T EVEN CARE
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Don’t give me no incentive
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Don’t give me NO incentive
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I know you know what I’m talkin’ ‘bout
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I-I-I-I
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Uh-huh, yeah!
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DON’T EVEN CARE
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Oh no, I don’t…
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Now listen…
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Everybody’s sayin’ be big hearted
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I-I-I-I
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Everybody’s sayin’ be big hearted
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DON’T EVEN CARE
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How in the world has this mess got started
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I never know, never know got started
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OW!
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I-I-I-I
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Yes sir! I don’t even care
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DON’T EVEN CARE
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Uh-huh, yes sir!
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I-I-I-I
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DON’T EVEN CARE
|
I-I-I-I
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Help me, uh-huh
|
DON’T EVEN CARE
|
Don’t care no more
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Don’t you… Don’t you know!
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I-I-I-I
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Everybody’s doin’ line in tellin’ them lies an’…
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They want me to b’lieve it!
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DON’T EVEN CARE
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Everybody’s tryin’ to offer me somethin’
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Ain’t nothin’ I need to live
|
I said
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I-I-I-I
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Yeah! I don’t even…
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DON’T EVEN CARE
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No, no, I don’t…
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Ha-tch-tch-tch-tch
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I-I-I-I
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Ha-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch
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DON’T EVEN CARE
|
Uh-huh, now listen, now ain’t that som’thin’, oof!
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I said
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I-I-I-I
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Alright
|
DON’T EVEN CARE
|
Lemme tell you why
|
What was whole
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Now, what was whole
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I-I-I-I
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What was whole is… is just less than half
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DON’T EVEN CARE
|
What was whole is less than half
|
Lemme tell you
|
OW!
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I-I-I-I
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Hey, you can’t hold on to it ‘cause it ain’t gonna last!
|
DON’T EVEN CARE
|
Would you listen to me, baby?
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I’m just talkin’ ‘bout…
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I-I-I-I
|
OW!
|
DON’T EVEN CARE
|
Shit, I don’t care!
|
Listen, I said now
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I-I-I-I
|
Uh-huh
|
DON’T EVEN CARE
|
So listen, lemme tell ya
|
✄ The cow used to jump over the moon!
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An’ now he’s jumpin’ over the fence!
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I-I-I-I
|
Is that cold?
|
It don’t make no sense do it
|
DON’T EVEN CARE
|
OW! Yep, that’s the reason! That’s the reason! That’s the reason! OW!
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I just don’t care!
|
I-I-I-I
|
Uh-huh
|
No, no, no!
|
DON’T EVEN CARE
|
Say, look, they thought it was a man in the moon
|
I wonder was it a woman
|
Just don’t care!
|
Yeah yeah hey!
|
I said
|
I-I-I-I
|
YEAH!
|
Well well hey
|
DON’T EVEN CARE
|
Somethin’ in the mornin’
|
I don’t care in the evenin’
|
I don’t care at night
|
No, no, I just don’t care, I said that…
|
I-I-I-I
|
Say, would you b’lieve they tried to send me up to fix the satellite?
|
Oh no
|
DON’T EVEN CARE
|
OW! No good!
|
AAAAAAAH!
|
Listen, talkin’ ‘bout…
|
I-I-I-I
|
Said I don’t care
|
DON’T EVEN CARE
|
Woh no, I don’t this evenin’…
|
No I don’t! I don’t care! Yeah! Sayin’ that…
|
I-I-I-I
|
You know I said, I…
|
DON’T EVEN CARE
|
Oh no… ha ha… oh lordy!
|
Oh no, tell you, I don’t really…
|
I-I-I-I
|
Somebody better hold me this evenin’
|
Say it again
|
‘Cause I don’t even care
|
DON’T EVEN CARE
|
Want you to know, want you… know that I said…
|
Hold me tight, hold me tight, hold me tight this evenin’ ‘cause
|
I-I-I-I
|
B’lieve it!
|
Tell ya what, tell ya what, I don’t…
|
DON’T EVEN CARE
|
Lord have mercy! Pull them guitar strings!
|
OW!
|
[FZ] Turn, turn
|
Turn, turn
|
We’re turning again
|
Turn, turn
|
Turn, turn
|
We’re turning again
|
|
They took a whole bunch of acid
|
So they could see where it’s at
|
It’s over there, over there, over there, over there and under here also
|
Doont da-doodem doodem!
|
They lived on a whole bunch of nothing
|
They thought they looked very good
|
They’d never ever worry, they were always in a hurry
|
To convince themselves that what they were was really very groovy
|
|
Yes, they believed in all the papers
|
And the magazines that defined their folklore
|
They could never laugh at who or what they thought they were
|
Or even what they thought they sorta oughta be
|
They were TOTALLY EMPTY
|
Totally empty
|
And their lives were really useless, so what the fuck?
|
They didn’t have no sense of humor
|
Oodly-oodly-yeah!
|
Now they got nothing left to laugh about, including themselves
|
|
Turn, turn
|
Turn, turn
|
We’re turning again
|
Turn, turn
|
Turn, turn
|
We’re turning again
|
|
[Ike Willis] The year 1967 drug-crazed youth discovered vagrancy as a way of life
|
EWW-WW!
|
✄ They were mellow, they were yellow, they were wearing smelly blankets, they looked like DONOVAN fans
|
✄ HU-UR-DE-EE GU-UR-DE-EE
|
They walkin’ ‘round with stupid flowers in their hair an’ everywhere, they tried to stuff ‘em up the guns
|
|
Of all the cops and other servants of the law
|
LA LA-LA-LA LA-LA
|
Who tried to push ‘em around and later mowed ‘em down
|
But they were full of all that shit that they believed in
|
PHEW!
|
So what the fuck?
|
WHAT THE FUCK?
|
|
Now, I seen ‘em tightenin’ up their headbands on the weekend and they get loaded when they came to town
|
They walk around in Greenwich Village to buy posters they could hang up in dem smelly little secret black light bedrooms on LONG ISLAND singin’:
|
“JIMI COME BACK!”
|
Now come back and regulate de boy’s furz-tone
|
Yo’ ✄ HAZE was so PURPLE
|
It caused your ✄ AXIS to be BOLD AS LOVE
|
JIMI-JIMI-JIMI-JIMI-JIMI FEED BACK
|
Now Jimi gimme some feedback
|
Come back and feed back on my knapsack
|
You can feed back the fuzz tone from your WAH-WAH while you bend down and set your stuff on fire
|
|
[FZ] Turn, turn
|
Turn, turn
|
We’re turning again
|
Turn, turn
|
Turn, turn
|
We’re turning again
|
|
We can turn it around, we can do it again, we can go back in time
|
✄ Through the canyons of your mind on the ✄ EVE O’ DESTRUCTION
|
We can act like we are something really special
|
[Ike Willis] WOOOH
|
We’ll just jump in the bathtub with that other guy JIM
|
And make him be more careful
|
We can visit Big Mama
|
And whap her on the back
|
When she eats her sandwich
|
LA LA LA LA
|
|
We can take care of Janis
|
When she gets so depressed
|
She can’t take it no more
|
We can laugh at Keith Moon’s jokes
|
HA HA HA HA HA!
|
And the color TV
|
HA HA!
|
He threw out de windum fum de second flew-ah!
|
YEAAHHHH!
|
|
Everybody come back
|
No one can do it like you used to
|
If you listen to the radio and what they play today
|
You can tell right away: all those assholes really need you!
|
|
[FZ] Turn, turn
|
Turn, turn
|
We’re turning again
|
Turn, turn
|
Turn, turn
|
We’re turning again
|
|
Turn, turn
|
Turn, turn
|
We’re turning again
|
Turn, turn
|
Turn, turn
|
We’re turning again
|
[Ike Willis] Yo’ cats, yo-yo
|
Yo’ chooch, way to go
|
You is dead, but you don’t know
|
Yo’ let’s carve, hey, where’s the blow?
|
|
Get your fiddle, get your bow
|
Play some footballs on your hoe
|
Watch your watch, play a little flat
|
Make the session go overtime, that’s where it’s at
|
|
Hey, saxophone, clarinet
|
How many doubles can you get?
|
Special rules provide the way
|
To help you maximize your pay
|
|
Your Girl, Arlyn’s, what’s the diff?
|
What’s the service that you’re with?
|
So long as you can suck the butt
|
Of the contractor who calls you up
|
|
Your career could take a thud
|
Unless you kneel and scarf his pud
|
And when the dates come rollin’ in
|
You can wipe your lips and flash a grin
|
That tells them all at the jingle date
|
That you enjoyed what you just ate
|
|
Yum yum, dog-food
|
Hemorrhoid cream but the bread’s so good
|
New RV and the leisure suit
|
Hey, I play shit but I love that loot
|
|
Thank the union, it’s so great
|
Only a few get to be on the date
|
Those other schmucks with electric guitars
|
Got to play for poot in the B scale bars
|
|
You have made it, you are cool
|
You have been to the Berklee school
|
You give clinics on the side
|
Music has died… and… no one cried
|
|
Yo’ cats, yo-yo
|
Yo’ chooch, way to go
|
You is dead
|
|
Hey! Have a nice one, guy!
|
[Chairman] The reason for this hearing is not to promote any legislation. Indeed, I don’t know of any suggestion that any legislation be passed. But to simply provide a forum for airing the issue itself, for ventilating the issue, for bringing it out in the public domain. Senator Hollings.
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[Senator Hollings] I’ve had the opportunity to uh… attend… a showing, you might say, or presentation of uh… this porn rock, as they call it. In the test of pornography, one of the things to look at is it… it does not have any redeeming social value. Ah, there could be an exception here, because having attended that pres— presentation, the redeeming social value I find that is inaudible. I have a hard time understanding it, then, Paul, since I traveled the country for 3 years, an’ they said they could not understand me. Maybe I could make a good rock star; I don’t know. Heh. But in all candor, I would tell you it’s… it’s outrageous filth.
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So, I’ll be looking from this Senator’s standpoint, not just to bring pressures but to try to see if there is some constitutional provisions to tax, or approach that can be used on the Congress to limit this outrageous filth.
|
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[Chairman] Senator Trible
|
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[Senator Trible] Rape, incest, sexual violence
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[Senator Hollings] It’s outrageous filth
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[Senator Trible] Is like sandpaper to the soul
|
Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
|
[Senator Hollings] It’s outrageous filth
|
[Senator Trible] Rather the emotional damage is more subtle
|
[Senator Hawkins] Fire and chains and…
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[Senator Hollings] It’s outrageous filth
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[Senator Hawkins] Other objectionable tools of gratification in some twisted mind
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[Johnny Watson] YEAH!
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[Senator Trible] Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
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[Senator Hollings] Porn rock
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[Senator Trible] Rather the emotional damage is more subtle
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[Senator Hollings] Willy nilly over the air
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[Senator Trible] The mere announcement of this heari— censorship
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[Senator Hollings] If I could find some way constitutionally to do away with it, I would
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[Senator Hawkins] Fire and chains and… other objectionable…
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[Senator Hollings] Rock porn
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[Senator Hawkins] Tools of gratification in some twisted mind
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[Johnny Watson] YEAH!
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[Senator Trible] Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
|
[Senator Hollings] Porn rock
|
[Senator Trible] Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
|
[Senator Hollings] Porn rock
|
[Senator Trible] Rather the emotional damage…
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[Senator Hollings] If I could find some way constitutionally to do away with it, I would
|
[Senator Hawkins] This issue is too hot not to cool down
|
[Senator Trible] Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
|
[Senator Trible] Rather the emotional damage is more subtle
|
[Senator Hollings] Porn rock
|
[Senator Hollings] Porn rock
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[Senator Hollings] Porn rock
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[Senator Hawkins] Burn! Burn!
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[Senator Hollings] Willy nilly over the air
|
[Senator Hollings] Willy nilly over the air
|
[Senator Hollings] Willy nilly over the air
|
[Senator Hollings] Rock porn… Rock porn… Rock porn
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[Senator Hawkins] This issue is too hot not to cool down
|
[Senator Hawkins] Fire and chains and… other objectionable tools of gratification in some twisted mind
|
[Senator Hawkins] This issue is too hot not to cool down
|
[Senator Hollings] Porn rock
|
[Senator Hollings] Porn rock
|
[Senator Hollings] Porn rock
|
[Senator Hollings] Porn rock
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[Senator Hawkins] This issue is too…
|
|
[Spider Barbour] This must be the end of the world! All the people turning into pigs and ponies. I can’t let it happen to me!
|
|
[Senator Exon] What is the reason for these hearings in front of the Commerce Committee?
|
[FZ] Sex!
|
[Senator Hawkins] Well…
|
[FZ] Sex!
|
[Senator Hawkins] Thank you, I think that statement… tells the story to this committee
|
[Rev. Jeff Ling] ✄ Listen you little slut, do as you are told
|
[Senator Exon] What is the reason…
|
[FZ] Sex!
|
[Senator Exon] For these hearings in front of the Commerce Committee?
|
[FZ] Sex! Underwear! Bondage!
|
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Listen you little slut
|
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Listen you little slut, do as you are told
|
[FZ] Sex, and lots of it
|
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Fixed her good
|
[FZ] Sex! Sex! Sex! Sex!
|
|
[Senator Hawkins] I’d be interested to see what toys your kids ever had
|
[FZ] Why would you be interested?
|
[Senator Hawkins] Just as a point of interest in this…
|
[FZ] Well, come on over to the house. I’ll show ‘em to you.
|
[FZ] Really!
|
[Senator Hawkins] I… I might do that
|
[Senator Trible] Rape, incest, sexual violence… is like sandpaper to the soul
|
[Senator Trible] Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
|
[Senator Hollings] It’s outrageous filth
|
[Senator Trible] Rather the emotional damage is more subtle
|
[Senator Hawkins] Fire and chains and… other…
|
[Senator Hollings] It’s outrageous filth
|
[Senator Hawkins] Objectionable tools of gratification in some twisted minds
|
[Johnny Watson] YEAH!
|
[Senator Trible] Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
|
[Senator Hollings] Porn rock
|
[Senator Hollings] Willy nilly over the air
|
[Senator Trible] Rather the emotional damage is more subtle
|
[Senator Hawkins] Fire and chains and… other…
|
[Senator Hollings] If I could find some way constitutionally to do away with it, I would
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[Senator Hawkins] Objectionable tools of gratification in some twisted minds
|
[Senator Trible] Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
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[Johnny Watson] YEAH!
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[Senator Hollings] Something that we have got to give some kind of attention to
|
[Senator Trible] The mere announcement of this hearing led to cries of censorship
|
[Senator Trible] Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
|
[Senator Hollings] Porn rock
|
[Senator Trible] Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
|
[Senator Hollings] If I could find some way constitutionally to do away with it, I would
|
[Senator Trible] Rather the emotional damage…
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[Chairman] Thank you very much, Mr. Zappa. You understand that the… the uh… previous witnesses were not asking for legislation. And uh… I don’t know, I can’t speak for Senator Hollings, but I think that the prevailing view here is that nobody is asking for legislation. The question is just focusing on what a lot of people perceived to be a problem, and you have indicated that you at least understand that there is another point of view.
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[Senator Hollings] Willy nilly over the air
|
[Senator Hollings] Willy nilly over the air
|
[Senator Hollings] Willy nilly over the air
|
[Chairman] Senator Gore
|
[Senator Gore] Thank you ve— very much, Mr. Chairman. I found your statement very interesting and… let me say, although I disagree with some of the statements that you make and have made on other occasions, I have been a fan of your music, believe it or not. And I… I… respect you as a true original and a tremendously talented musician.
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[Spider Barbour] Ooh, wait a minute!
|
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[Senator Hollings] Maybe I could make a good rock star; I don’t know
|
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Come with… Come with… Come with daddy!
|
[Senator Hollings] Maybe I could make a good rock star; I don’t know
|
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Come with… Come with daddy!
|
[Senator Hollings] Maybe I could make a good rock star; I don’t know
|
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Come with… Come with… Come with daddy!
|
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[Spider Barbour] They don’t even understand their own music. Of course nobody does, but…
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[John Kilgore] They don’t… They don’t even know what they’re doing
|
[Spider Barbour] No!
|
[John Kilgore] I’ve… I’ve seen ‘em a couple of times
|
[Spider Barbour] Did… Did you see their uniforms?
|
[John Kilgore] Unbelievable!
|
[Monica Boscia] Which ones? They, the red ones?
|
[John Kilgore] All those rhinestones over their rings and things like that
|
[Monica Boscia] Do you know what I…
|
[John Kilgore] Gold lamé hoof-covers… unbelievable!
|
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[Senator Hollings] Maybe I could make a good rock star
|
[Senator Hollings] Maybe I could make a good rock star
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[Rev. Jeff Ling] ✄ Gonna drive my love inside you
|
[Senator Hollings] It’s outrageous filth
|
[Senator Hollings] It’s outrageous filth
|
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Come with daddy!
|
[Senator Hollings] Rock, rock, porn rock
|
[Senator Hollings] Rock porn
|
[Senator Hollings] Willy nilly over the air
|
[Senator Hollings] An’ I think your suggestion is a good one. If you print those words, that would go a long way to satisfying everyone’s objections.
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[FZ] All we have to do is find out how it is going to be paid for
|
[Senator Hawkins] This issue is too hot not to cool down
|
[Senator Hawkins] Pyromania. Burn the building! Burn! Burn! Burn! No question. Burn the building! Burn! Burn! Burn!
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[Senator Trible] The mere announcement of this hearing led to cries of censorship
|
[Johnny Watson] YEAH!
|
[Senator Trible] Not the self-appointed guardians of the national morality, as some would suggest
|
[Senator Hollings] If I could find some way constitutionally to do away with it, I would
|
[Senator Hollings] Within the constrictions of free speech
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[Senator Hollings] Willy nilly over the air
|
[Senator Hawkins] This issue is too hot not to cool down
|
[Senator Hollings] So, I’ll be looking from this Senator’s standpoint, not just to bring pressures but to try to see if there is some constitutional provisions to tax, or approach that can be used on the Congress to limit this outrageous filth.
|
[Johnny Watson] YEAH!
|
|
[Thing-Fish] We’ll get back to de wimp and his low-budget conceptium of personal freedom in just a moment. But foist, welcome to… WHAT DE FUCK GWINE ON HERE? A celebratium o’ de American way o’ life!
|
I see some o’ y’all be FROWNIN’… ‘cause mebbe y’think what I’s tellin’ ya is a LIE!
|
Am I right?
|
Les’ jes’ have a test… How many o’ you nice folks think I knows what I’s talkin’ ‘bout? RAISE Y’HAIN UP! Uh-huh!
|
An’ how many thinks my potato been bakin’ too long? RAISE YO’ MIZZABLE HAIN UP! Uh-huh!
|
Now… how many you folks is CONVINCED de gubnint be totally “UNCONCERNED” wit de proliferatium o’ UNDESIRABLE TENANTS in de CONDOMINIUM o’ LIFE? An’ how many folks believe THEY number won’t come up, next time de breeze blow fum de Easterly directium? ▶
|
Les’ face it, peoples! Ugly as I mights be, I AM YO’ FUTCHUM!
|
Ain’t that right, Sister Ob’dewlla? Hmm-hmm! Oh oh YEAH! Thass right!
|
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[Chairman] Senator Gorton
|
[Senator Gorton] Mr. Zappa, I uh… am astounded at the courtesy and soft-voiced nature of the comments of my friend, the Senator from Tennessee. I can only say that I found your statement to be boorish uh… incredibly and insensitively insulting to the people that were here previously; that you could manage to give the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States a bad name, if I felt that you had the slightest understanding of it, which I do not. You do not have the slightest understanding of the difference between Government action and private action, and you have certainly destroyed any case you might otherwise have had with this Senator.
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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[FZ] Is this private action?
|
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[Rev. Jeff Ling] Degradation. Humiliation. Thrusting, shoving. Animals humping.
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[Senator Hawkins] There’s no absolute right to free speech
|
[FZ] I don’t think this is constitutional
|
[Tipper Gore] A voluntary labeling is not censorship
|
[Rev. Jeff Ling] ✄ Bend up and smell my anal vapor
|
[Tipper Gore] A voluntary… voluntary… voluntary… A voluntary labeling is not censorship
|
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Degradation… humiliation… thrusting
|
[Senator Hawkins] Well…
|
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Whips in their hands
|
[Senator Hawkins] I’d be interested to see what toys your kids ever had
|
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Gonna drive my love inside you
|
[Senator Hawkins] Well…
|
[FZ] Is this private action?
|
[Rev. Jeff Ling] In chains
|
[Senator Hawkins] Well…
|
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Listen you little slut, do as you are told
|
[Senator Hawkins] There’s no absolute right…
|
[Senator Hawkins] There’s no absolute right…
|
[Rev. Jeff Ling] My apologies
|
[Senator Hawkins] There’s no absolute right…
|
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Whips in their hands
|
[Senator Hawkins] Well…
|
[FZ] Ladies, how dare you?
|
[Senator Hawkins] Well…
|
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Dressed in leather bondage masks
|
[Senator Hawkins] Well…
|
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Brutal erotica
|
[Senator Hollings] You and I would differ on what’s ignorance and educated
|
[FZ] Bondage!
|
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Bend up and smell my anal vapor
|
[Senator Hawkins] There’s no… There’s no…
|
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Come with daddy!
|
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[Chairman] Mr. Zappa, thank you very much for your testimony
|
[FZ] Thank you
|
[Chairman] Next witness is John Denver
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[Senator Hollings] We haven’t got ‘em whipped on this one yet. You got a bear by the tail here, uh? Jeezis!
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