Dead Kennedys - Cesspools In Eden lyrics

Poison is bubbling

Beneath your dreamhome

Buried there years before

Kid runs in crying

From playing in the garden

"Mommy, I burned my hands!"

"What's making our eyes so itchy?"

"Don't rub 'em-they'll swell up."

Oh Oh Oh Oh

It's the big waste dump

Oh, yeah

We built your ticky-tacky houses

On landfill soil

To cover up a gift

We left you years before

Of toxic chemicals

And leaking gas

Just dig a little while,

You'll find our acid baths

Cesspools

In Eden

Oozing away:

Groundwater's poisoned

Air stings like hell

The lines for doctors grow long

Over martinis

The company laughs

"We don't owe you one damn thing."

But what about all these fainting spells?

How'd you like a lick

From my open sores

And Oh:.Oh Oh Oh -

Why are our babies stillborn?

A storage tank's leaking

It's about to explode

Why evacuate

When you can watch the fun

Nothing happens here

Get out the lawn chairs

We'll drink pink lemonade

And watch Martinez burn

Cesspools

In Eden

Oozing away

Cesspools in Eden

Leak by the day

The land we sold you

Is right atop our acid pits

We fill them by the truckload

In the dead of night

There's thousands more toxic

Tips of the iceberg

We pay a little bribe

Or we just don't report them

And see what you get-

Cesspools

In Eden

In Eden

No accident-

Just a little of our greed-fueled negligence

So you've found the proof why

Your cancer rate's shot up

But whatcha gonna do

When we've got all the cards

Times Beach, Rocky Flats,

Love Canal & Bhopal

Merry Christmas, hostages

From the folks who care

Cesspools in Eden

Oozing away

Cesspools in Eden

Leak by the day

Cesspools in Eden

Have a nice day