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Mild Kingdom Lyrics by Jello Biafra

No More Cocoons

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Ladies, gentlemen, and potato chip bags, good afternoon and welcome to the Mild Kingdom, where each week, we take you around the world for a closeup armchair look at the wild world of animals.
We show you lions (we borrowed from a zoo). Savagely stalk and attack their prey (that we tied down ahead of time to ensure a good camera angle).
We take you Disney-style to the white wilderness of the far North. You are there whеn it's Jonestown season for nature’s fascinating lеmmings (the same ones we bought earlier from Eskimo children and transported a thousand miles away so we could film their migration scene accurately on a revolving snow-covered turntable). But when we got them to the edge of the cliff, those lemmings wouldn't cooperate. So our crew just picked them up and threw them over the edge and into the river below.
"Over they go," says the narrator, "casting themselves bodily into space. The Arctic Sea is dotted with tiny bobbing bodies."
Besides those endless insurance commercials, we have a special treat for you today here on the Mild Kingdom: a fantastic voyage deep into the heart of the jungles of darkest Lebanon, where our camera zeroes in on an innocent fawn, out by the airport near Beirut.
"Hey! Yo! We're the United States Marines! Now, we know how you’ve all been killing each other for at least two thousand years, but... we're here now! So... stop all this fighting, okay? And, you know, like magic, all your generations of hatred will simply go away. Dude, we're talking national security here! We're here to protect the family of Christian heroin warlords most friendly to the West! So... come on, knock off all this fighting and stuff, you hear? Or we'll tell Mom."
After a trash bag commercial, we take you to a cold gray hangar to watch our honest president pretend to mourn two-hundred brave young men who were shipped home from Beirut, gift-wrapped in Hefty brand corpse bags, blown to bits by another goddamned truck bomb, but we knew they were sitting ducks. We sacrificed 'em Aztec-style so we could use their dead meat as food for war fever right here at home. Tied them all down perfectly like prey for the lions from the zoo.
"Kaboom! Look who did it! Those dirty Arabs did it, man! Let's go get 'em! Let’s go get ’em! Let's go get ’em! Fan the bonfires of racism! Get people hot and boiling for revenge in their living rooms!"
Then, we can go play shoot-'em-up anywhere we choose. Libya, Nicaragua. Now, our backers can cash in without the public asking a lot of questions.
Well, we've run out of time for this week! We hope you enjoyed our little adventure. We hope to brainwash you again soon with all the accuracy you've come to expect from life in the Mild Kingdom.
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Jello Biafra

Jello Biafra

About “Mild Kingdom” by Jello Biafra

Read the complete lyrics to "Mild Kingdom" by Jello Biafra from the album "No More Cocoons". On Lyrks you can follow along with the full text, explore the artist's discography, and discover related songs. The track is often categorized under Spoken Word, Non-Music.

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