Neil Cicierega - Space Monkey Mafia lyrics

That's great, it starts with an earthquake
Birds and snakes
An aeroplane, and Billy Joel is not afraid

Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn
(Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China
Johnnie Ray) world serves it's own needs
Don't misserve your own needs
(South Pacific, Walter Winchell
Joe DiMaggio)
Feed it up a knock, speed, grunt, no
Strength
(Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker
Television)
The ladder starts to clatter with
Fear of height, down, height
(North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe)
Wire in a fire, represent the seven games
(Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom)
And a government for hire and a combat site
(Brando, The King And I


And The Catcher In The Rye)
Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry
(Eisenhower, Vaccine
England's got a new queen)
With the Furies breathing down your neck
(Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye)

It's the end of the world as we know it
(We didn't start the fire)
It's the end of the world as we know it
(It was always burning since
The world's been turning)
It's the end of the world as we know it
(We didn't start the fire) and I feel fine
(No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it)

Team by team, reporters
Baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped
(Joseph Stalin, Malenkov
Nasser and Prokofiev)
Look at that low plane, fine, then
(Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc)
Uh oh, overflow, population, common group
(Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron)
But it'll do, save yourself, serve yourself
(Dien Bien Phu Falls
"Rock Around the Clock")
World serves it's own needs
Listen to your heart bleed
(Einstein, James Dean
Brooklyn's got a winning team)
Tell me with the Rapture and
The reverent in the right, right
(Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley
Disneyland)
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam fight
Bright light
(Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev)
Feeling pretty psyched
(Princess Grace, Peyton Place
Trouble in the Suez)

It's the end of the world as we know it
(We didn't start the fire)
It's the end of the world as we know it
(It was always burning since
The world's been turning)
It's the end of the world as we know it
(We didn't start the fire) and I feel fine
(No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it)

Six o'clock, TV hour
Don't get caught in a foreign tower
(Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle
Kerouac) slash and burn, return
Listen to yourself churn
(Sputnik, Zhou Enlai
Bridge On The River Kwai)
Lock him in uniform, book burning
Blood letting (Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle
California baseball)
Every motive escalate, automotive incinerate
(Starkweather Homicide
Children of Thalidomide)
Light a candle, light a votive, step down
Step down
(Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia)
Watch your heel crush, crush, uh oh
(Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go)
This means no fear
Cavalier renegade and steering clear
(U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy)
A tournament, a tournament
A tournament of lies
(Chubby Checker, Psycho
Belgians in the Congo)

It's the end of the world as we know it
(We didn't start the fire)
It's the end of the world as we know it
(It was always burning since
The world's been turning)
It's the end of the world as we know it
(We didn't start the fire) and I feel fine
(No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it) and I feel fine

(Space monkey mafia, space monkey
Mafia, space monkey mafia
Space monkey mafia)
(Space monkey mafia, space monkey
Mafia, space monkey mafia
Space monkey mafia)
(Space monkey mafia, space monkey
Mafia, space monkey mafia
Space monkey mafia)
(Space monkey mafia, space monkey
Mafia, space monkey mafia
Space monkey mafia)

The other night I dreamt a
Nice continental drift divide
(Hemingway, Eichmann
Stranger in a Strange Land)
Mountains sit in a line, Leonard Bernstein
(Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion)
Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs
(Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania)
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom!
(Ole Miss, John Glenn
Liston beats Patterson)
You symbiotic, patriotic, slam but neck
(Pope Paul, Malcolm X
British Politician sex) right? Right!
(JFK blown away, what else do I have to say?)

It's the end of the world as we know it
(We didn't start the fire)
It's the end of the world as we know it
(It was always burning since
The world's been turning)
It's the end of the world as we know it
(We didn't start the fire) and I feel fine
(No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it)

It's the end of the world as we know it
(We didn't start the fire)
It's the end of the world as we know it
(It was always burning since
The world's been turning)
It's the end of the world as we know it
(We didn't start the fire) and I feel fine
(But when we are gone it will still
Burn on, and on, and on, and on)

It's the end of the world as we know it
(We didn't start the fire)
It's the end of the world as we know it
(It was always burning since
The world's been turning)
It's the end of the world as we know it
(We didn't start the fire) and I feel fine
(No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it) and I feel fine

(On, and on, and on, and on, and)
(On, and on, and on, and on, and)
(On, and on, and on, and on, and)
(On, and on, and on, and on, and)