It had to be flashin'
like the daily double
It had to be playin' on TV
It had to be loud mouthed
on the comedy hour
It had to be announced over
loud speakers
The CIA and Mafia are in cahoots
It had to be said
in old ladies' language
It had to be said
in American headlines
Kennedy stretched and
smiled and got double crossed
by lowlife goons and agents
Rich bankers
with criminal connections
Dope pushers
in CIA working with dope pushers
from Cuba working
with a big time
syndicate from Tampa Florida
And it had to be said
with a big mouth
It had to be moaned over
factory foghorns
It had to be chattered on car
radio news broadcasts
It had to be screamed
in the kitchen
It had to be yelled
in the basement
where uncles were fighting
It had to be howled on the
streets by newsboys
to bus conductors
It had to be foghorned into
New York harbor
It had to echo onto hard hats
It had to turn up the volume
in university ballrooms
It had to be written
in library books, footnoted
It had to be in
the headlines of the Times
and the mind
It had to be barked on TV
It had to be heard in alleys
through ballroom doors
It had to be played
on wire services
It had to be bells ringing
Comedians stopped dead in
the middle of a joke
in Las Vegas
It had to be FBI
chief J. Edgar Hoover
and Frank Costello syndicate
mouthpiece meeting
in Central Park
New York weekends
reported Time magazine
It had to be the Mafia
and the CIA together
starting war on Cuba
Bay of Pigs and poison
assassination headlines
It had to be dope cops
in the Mafia
Who sold all their heroin
in America
It had to be the FBI and
organized crime working together
in cahoots against the commies
It had to be ringing on
multinational cash registers
World wide laundry for
organized criminal money
It had to be the CIA and the
Mafia and the FBI together
They were bigger than Nixon
And they were bigger that war
It had to be a large room
full of murder
It had to be a mounted ass
a solid mass of rage
A red hot pen
A scream in the back
of the throat
It had to be a kid
that can breathe
It had to be
in Rockefellers' mouth
It had to be central
intelligence, the family
allofthis, the agency Mafia
One big set of gangs
working together in cahoots
Hitmen Murderers everywhere
The secret The drunk
The brutal The dirty rich
On top of a slag heap of prisons
Industrial cancer
Plutonium smog
Garbage cities
Grandmas' bed soft
from fathers' resentment
It had to be the rulers
They wanted law and order
And they got rich on wanting
protection for the status quo
They wanted junkies
They wanted Attica
They wanted Kent State
They wanted war in Indochina
It had to be the CIA and the
Mafia and the FBI
Multinational capitalists
Strong armed squads
Private detective
agencies for the rich
And their armies
and navies and
their air force bombing planes
It had to be capitalism
The vortex of this rage
This competition Man to man
The horses head
in a capitalists' bed
The Cuban turf
It rumbles in hitmen
And gang wars across oceans
Bombing Cambodia
settled the score
White House pots and pans
A warning to
Mediterranean governments
The secret police have been
embraced for decades
The NKPD and CIA keep each
other's secrets
The OGBU and DIA
never hit their own
The KGB and the FBI are one mind
Brute force and full of money
World-wide Brute force
and full of money
World-wide Brute force
and full of money
World-wide Brute force
and full of money
World-wide Brute force
and full of money
and full of money
and full of money
and full of money
It had to be rich
and it had to be powerful
They had to murder in
Indonesia 500000
They had to murder in
Indochina 2000000
They had to murder
in Czechoslovakia
They had to murder in Chile
They had to murder in Russia
And they had to murder
in America
sh that I could talk to you
Be with you somehow
I know you're in a better place
And you know I can see your face
I know you're smiling down on me
Saying everything's okay
I wish that I could hold you now
I wish that I could
touch you now