Soup Is Good Food

Soup Is Good Food

Dead Kennedys
(album: Frankenchrist)

We´re sorry
But you´re no longer needed
Or wanted
Or even cared about here
Machines can do a better job than you
This is what you get for asking questions

The unions agree
´Sacrifices must be made´
Computers never go on strike
To save the working man you´ve got to put him out to pasture

Looks like we´ll have to let you go
Doesn´t it feel fulfilling to know
That you-the human being-are now obsolete
And there´s nothing in hell we´ll let you do about it

Soup is good food-(We don´t need you any more)
You made a good meal-(We don´t need you any more)
Now how do you feel-(We don´t need you any more)
To be shit out our ass
And thrown in the cold like a piece of trash

We´re sorry
You´ll just have to leave
Unemployment runs out after just six weeks
How does it feel to be a budget cut?
You´re snipped
You no longer exist

Your number´s been purged from our central computer
So we can rig the facts
And sweep you under the rug
See our chart? Unemployment´s going down
If that ruins your life that´s your problem

Soup is good food-(We don´t need you any more)
You made a good meal-(We don´t need you any more)
Now how do you feel-(We don´t need you any more)
To be shit out our ass
And thrown in the cold like a piece of trash

We´re sorry
We hate to interrupt
But it´s against the law to jump off this bridge
You´ll just have to kill yourself somewhere else
A tourist might see you
And we wouldn´t want that

I´m just doing my job, you know
So say uncle
And we´ll take you to the mental health zoo
Force feed you mind-melting chemicals
Till even the outside world looks great

In hi-tech science research labs
It costs too much to bury all the dead
The mutilated disease-injected
Surplus rats who can´t be used anymore

So they´re dumped (with no minister present)
In a spiraling corkscrew dispose-all unit
Ground into sludge and flushed away
Aw geez...

We don´t need you any more
We don´t need you any more
Soup is good food-(We don´t need you any more)
You made a good meal-(We don´t need you any more)
Now how do you feel-(We don´t need you any more)
To be shit out our ass
And thrown in the cold like a piece of trash

We know how much you´d like to die (We don´t need you any more)
We joke about it on our coffee breaks (We don´t need you any more)
But we´re paid to force you to have a nice day (We don´t need you any more)
In the wonderful world we made just for you (We don´t need you any more)

"Poor Rats", we human rodents chuckle
At least we get a dignified cremation
At yet
At 6:00 tomorrow morning
It´s time to get up and go to work