Name: What's The Matter, Are You Stupid?
Duration: P00H03M28S
Description: It’s a question that’s been asked since time immemorial. It’s still asked and, people being people, I’m sure it will be asked well after I’m gone. Don’t know the question? What’s the matter, are you stupid?

What's The Matter, Are You Stupid?

by Ken Acorn

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It’s a question that’s been asked since time immemorial. It’s still asked and, people being people, I’m sure it will be asked well after I’m gone. Don’t know the question? What’s the matter, are you stupid?

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What's The Matter, Are You Stupid?

Watch the telly, watch the telly, watch the telly, watch the telly.
Let them do your thinking for you.
Spray the smelly, spread the jelly, stuff the belly, watch the telly.
Welcome to the numb, human zoo.
Chopped and chewed by the dead, by the dead conned –
I could spew watching you being embalmed.
And your children are all victims not unlike you.

Jan the boozers, jam the boozers, jam the boozers, jam the boozers.
Get loose in the handicapped zone.
Join the cruisers, curse the users, rub the losers, jam the boozers -
Anything to not be alone.
Let the beasts have their way; you can just hide.
Let your brain ricochet; you have just died.
Don’t bore me with epic tales of how you have tried.

Tell me, what’s your problem, babe?
There’s got to be a problem.
What’s the matter, head too small?
What’s the matter, brain too big?
What’s the matter, blood not pumping?
What’s the matter, are you stupid?

Reap the papers, read the papers, read the papers, read the papers
In between the job and the snooze.
Shoot the rapers, hang the gapers, chase the capers, read the papers.
Mental death is something you choose.
So you live black and white, white and black blues,
With your head up your ass, brains in the shoes,
‘Til the day the massa say, ‘Hey, brother, you lose.’

© 1987 Ken Acorn

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released August 26, 2014
Ken Acorn - Lead vocal, acoustic guitar
Richie Brunton - Lead guitar
Pete Zorn - Harmony vocal, bass guitar

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