Frank Zappa - Acts II & III Liner Notes lyrics

Eventually it was discovered that God
Did not want us to be all the same
This was bAD NEWS
For the Governments of The World
As it seemed contrary to the doctrine of
Portion Controlled Servings
Mankind must be made more uniformly if
THE FUTURE was going to work
Various ways were sought
To bind us all together but, alas
SAMENESS was unenforceable
It was about this time that someone
Came up with the idea of
Total criminalization
Based on the principle that if
We were ALL crooks
We could at last be uniform to
Some degree in the eyes of tHE LAW
Shrewdly our legislators calculated
That most people were too lazy to perform a
REAL CRIME so new laws were
Manufactured
Making it possible for anyone to violate them
Any time of the day or night and
Once we had all broken some kind of law
We'd all be in the same big happy club
Right up there with the President
The most exalted industrialists
And the clerical big shots
Of all your favorite religions
Total criminalization
Was the greatest idea of it's time
And was vastly popular
Except with those people
Who didn't want to be crooks or outlaws
So, of course, they had to be
Tricked into it
Which is one of the reasons why mUSIC
Was eventually made iLLEGAL