Akira The Don, Joseph Campbell - Mother's No GOOD lyrics

The primitive and
Traditional initiation rites
Have to do with transforming the mode
Of reaction
Sometimes and usually
Terrifically

Frightening and actually
Very painful rituals
So that the individual will no longer
Think he’s a little boy

There are some rather amusing ones
From Australia, for instance
Where things are pretty fierce
When little boys
Begin to become kind of nasty
And difficult for their mothers to handle
The women get together and give
Them a good beating around the legs with
Sticks and so forth and then in a few weeks
Something very interesting happens the men
All dressed up in strange
God-like costumes such as the
Youngsters have always been taught were the
Figures of the divinities
They come in with bullroarers and yawls
And all kinds of terrifying noises
And the children the boys
Run to their mothers for protection
And the mothers PRETEND to protect them
Then the men grab them
And take them away
So mother’s no good anymore
Now they have to face this thing and then
What they have to face is –
Is – is really no fun

So mother’s no good anymore
Now they have to face this thing and then
What they have to face is really no fun
So mother’s no good anymore
Now they have to face this thing and then
What they have to face is really no fun
One of the ah
Little crises the boy is behind
A screen of bushes
And a lot of very interesting
Things are going on outside at night
Dances and so forth
The boys are told not to look
Well any boy who does look
Can you imagine what’s done with him?
He’s killed and eaten that is


Any youngster
Who will not cooperate with the society that
Is supporting him is just eradicated
Then he is given a chance
To see what is going on out there
So he is sitting, a scared kid i mean
He is about twelve or thirteen years old
At the end of this dance field
It’s night a strange man comes out
Performing the
Myth of the
Cosmic kangaroo the cosmic dog comes out
And attacks the kangaroo
Now after the youngster has seen this
Two big fellows come rushing down the field
And jump on the kid and
Continue to jump on him
He is going to remember kangaroo
And dog forever this thing is built-in
It may not be bright but they get the point
And there are not many points to be gotten

So mother’s no good anymore
Now they have to face this thing and then
What they have to face is really no fun
So mother’s no good anymore
Now they have to face this thing and then
What they have to face is really no fun

There are other things that happen
That I won’t go through
But they are all pretty um
Exciting let’s say
And when they are all over
The kid isn’t the kid he was
Before he changed a lot has happened
His body has been changed, and and
He’s then sent back to the girls
And there is one of them already
Selected to be his wife
And he’s now a guaranteed little man
And he’s going to behave
As a man of this crowd ought to behave