William S. Burroughs - A Thanksgiving Prayer paroles de chanson

paroles de chanson A Thanksgiving Prayer - William S. Burroughs

For John Dillinger

In hope he is still alive

Thanks for the wild turkey and the Passenger Pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts —

Thanks for a Continent to despoil and poison —

Thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger —

Thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin, leaving the carcass to rot —

Thanks for bounties on wolves and coyotes —

Thanks for the AMERICAN DREAM to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through —

Thanks for the KKK, for nigger-killing lawmen feeling their notches, for decent church-going women with their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces —

Thanks for "Kill a Queer for Christ" stickers —

Thanks for laboratory AIDS —

Thanks for Prohibition and the War Against Drugs —

Thanks for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business —

Thanks for a nation of finks —

Yes,

Thanks for all the memories... all right, let's see your arms...

You always were a headache and you always were a bore

Thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams.

Writer(s): William Burroughs, Frank Denning

Album Dead City Radio

date de sortie

18-09-1990

1 William's Welcome (What Are You Here For?)
2 A Thanksgiving Prayer
3 Naked Lunch Excerpts (You Got Any Eggs For Fats?) / Dinner Conversation (The Snakes)
4 Ah Pook The Destroyer / Brian Gysin's All Purpose Bedtime Story
5 After-Dinner Conversation (An Atrocious Conceit) / Where He Was Going
6 Kill The Badger!
7 A New Standard By Which To Measure Infamy
8 The Sermon On The Mount 1 (Wsb Reads The Good Book)
9 No More Stalins No More Hitlers
10 The Sermon On The Mount 2
11 Scandal At The Jungle Hiltons
12 The Sermon On The Mount 3
13 Love Your Enemies
14 Dr. Benway's House
15 Apocalypse
16 The Lord's Prayer
17 Ich Bin Von Kopf Bis Fuss Auf Liebe Eingestellt (Falling In Love Again)

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