Friday Videos: DRI
When I was 15, I got my hands on Tim Kelly’s copy of “Dealing With It” by the legendary Texas Hardcore band, DRI (Dirty Rotten Imbeciles). I never returned it, and it’s still in my collection (sorry Stu).
DRI was (is) an incredibly anti-government, anti-authoritarian band, a real example of the hyper-political 1980s hardcore movement. One of my favorite songs from Dealing With It was “I Don’t Need Society”, with lyrics so bitter it would put me in the perfect bad mood for another day at Rogers High School.
With that in mind, the next few videos are for the sellout Democrats. Some are compilations, some are live clips. I’ll try to print some lyrics.
I Don’t Need Society/Stupid Stupid War
I Don’t Need Society
Your numbers up you have to go
The system say’s ‘I told you so’
Stocked in a train like a truckload of cattle
Sent off to slaughter in a useless battle
Thousands of us sent off to die
Never really knowing why
Fuck the system they can have me
I don’t need society
I don’t need societyBefore you know it you’re in he corp
Grab your gear boy you’re off to war
Stocked in a train like a truckload of cattle
Sent off to slaughter in a useless battle
Thousands of us sent off to die
Never really knowing why
Fuck the system they can have me
I don’t need society
I don’t need societyYou were an apple pie clone living at home
Never straying to far from your phone
Now son make it through enemy lines
You must hurry there’s not much time
Made it sir. They’re gonna drop the bomb
No time to evacuate, they’ll call our moms
Fuck the system, they can’t have me
I don’t need society
I don’t need societyStupid Stupid War
You think you look good in your new uniform
Starched and pressed into the perfect norm
Until uncle Sam puts a gun in your hand
Points you in the wrong direction and says,
“kill that man!”
Well, I don’t fit into your plan
You can’t make me kill, man
You can’t make me kill a man
You can’t make me kill and
I won’t fight your stupid war
Believe me, I’m not your slave
I won’t fight in your war games
The C.I.A. Can’t make me play
The world’s running into problems now
That doesn’t mean we have to fight it out
Well, I don’t fit into your plan
You can’t make me kill, man
You can’t make me kill a man
You can’t make me kill and
I won’t fight your stupid war
I won’t fight your stupid war
I won’t fight when there’s nothing to fight for
Nothing to fight for
Nothing to fight fuckin for
The Five Year Plan
The Five Year Plan
I lose, you win
I lose, you win
I lose, you win
I lose again
But you’re on my five-year plan
Your time will come
When you least expect it, expect it!
The five-year plan
You fucked me over
You did me wrong
You know why
I wrote this song
The five-year plan
Until the, I’ll just pretend
That you are still my friend
But in the end, your time will come
When you least expect it, expect it!
The five-year plan
I don’t forget so easily
No, I’m not so quick to forget
The five-year plan
I hold a grudge
I live for revenge
The five-year plan
I win, you lose
I win, you lose
I win!
I Don’t Need Society, complete version, live
Yeah, I’m still fucking pissed off.
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May 25th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
I’ll let you borrow Dealing With It for another 20 years if you post those Jesus Lizard and Didjits clips I sent you.
May 25th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Will do, gotta dig through the emails first.
May 28th, 2007 at 5:45 am
Dealing With It. I wish it wasn’t still so existentially apt.