Dead Kennedys
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Jello Biafra would regularly break the sharp political satire to inject an odd track, on this album Stealing People’s Mail and the previous track, I Kill Children. The latter was reflected on poorly by Biafra, while this seems a simple story of thieving mail for kicks.
[Verse 1]
We ain't goin' to the party
We ain't goin' to the game
We ain't goin' to the disco
Ain't gonna cruise down Main
[Chorus]
We're stealing people's mail
Stealing people's mail
Stealing people's mail
Stealing people's mail
Stealing people's mail
On a Friday night
[Verse 2]
Drivin' in the mountains
Winding 'round and 'round
Rummage through your mailboxes
Take your mail back to town
[Pre-Chorus]
And we got license plates, wedding gifts, tax returns
Checks to politicians from real estate firms
Money, bills, and canceled checks
Pretty funny pictures of your kids
[Chorus]
Gonna steal your mail
On a Friday night
We're gonna steal your mail
By the pale moonlight
[Post-Chorus]
We got grocery sackful after grocery sackful
After grocery sackful after grocery sackful
After grocery sackful after grocery sackful
Of the private lives of you
[Solo]
[Verse 3]
People say that we're crazy
We're sick and all alone
But when we read your letters
We're rolling on the floor
[Pre-Chorus]
And we got more license plates, wedding gifts, tax returns
Checks to politicians from real estate firms
Money, bills, and canceled checks
We cut relationships with your friends
[Chorus]
We're gonna steal your mail
On a Friday night
We're gonna steal your mail
By the pale moonlight
[Outro]
We better not get caught
We'll be dumped in institutions
Where we'll be drugged and shocked
'Til we come out born-again Christians!
Stealing people's mail
Stealing people's mail
Stealing people's mail
Stealing people's mail on a Friday night, n-n-n-night
Stealing People’s Mail was written by Jello Biafra.
Stealing People’s Mail was produced by East Bay Ray.
Dead Kennedys released Stealing People’s Mail on Tue Sep 02 1980.