It
had to be flashin' like the daily double
It
had to be playin' on TV
It
had to be loud mouthed on the comedy hour
It
had to be announced over loud speakers
The CIA and the Mafia are in cahoots
It
had to be said in old ladies' language
It
had to be said in American headlines
Kennedy
stretched and smiled and got double crossed by lowlife goons and agents
Rich
bankers with criminal connections
Dope
pushers in CIA working with dope pushers from Cuba working with a
big
time syndicate from Tampa, Florida
And
it had to be said with a big mouth
It
had to be moaned over factory foghorns
It
had to be chattered on car radio news broadcasts
It
had to be screamed in the kitchen
It
had to be yelled in the basement where uncles were fighting
It
had to be howled on the streets by newsboys to bus conductors
It
had to be foghorned into New York harbor
It
had to echo onto hard hats
It
had to turn up the volume in university ballrooms
It
had to be written in library books, footnoted
It
had to be in the headlines of the Times and Le Monde
It
had to be barked on TV
It
had to be heard in alleys through ballroom doors
It
had to be played on wire services
It
had to be bells ringing
Comedians
stopped dead in the middle of a joke in Las Vegas
It
had to be FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover and Frank Costello syndicate
mouthpiece
meeting in Central Park, New York weekends,
reported
Time magazine
It
had to be the Mafia and the CIA together starting war on Cuba,
Bay
of Pigs and poison assassination headlines
It
had to be dope cops in the Mafia
Who
sold all their heroin in America
It
had to be the FBI and organized crime working together
in
cahoots against the commies
It
had to be ringing on multinational cash registers
A
world-wide laundry for organized criminal money
It
had to be the CIA and the Mafia and the FBI together
They
were bigger than Nixon
And
they were bigger than war
It
had to be a large room full of murder
It
had to be a mounted ass- a solid mass of rage
A
red hot pen
A
scream in the back of the throat
It
had to be a kid that can breathe
It
had to be in Rockefellers' mouth
It
had to be central intelligence, the family, allofthis, the agency Mafia
It
had to be organized crime
One big set of gangs working together in cahoots
Hitmen
Murderers
everywhere
The
secret
The
drunk
The
brutal
The
dirty and rich
On
top of a slag heap of prisons
Industrial
cancer
Plutonium
smog
Garbage
cities
Grandmas' bed soft from fathers' resentment
It
had to be the rulers
They
wanted law and order
And
they got rich on wanting protection for the status quo
They
wanted junkies
They
wanted Attica
They
wanted Kent State
They
wanted war in Indochina
yeah
It had to be the CIA and the Mafia and the FBI
Multinational
capitalists
Strong
armed squads
Private
detective agencies for the oh so very rich
And
their armies and navies and their air force bombing planes
It
had to be capitalism
The
vortex of this rage
This
competition
Man
to man
The
horses head in a capitalists' bed
The
Cuban turf
It
rumbles in hitmen
And
gang wars across oceans
Bombing
Cambodia settled the score when Soviet pilots
manned
Egyptian fighter planes
Chiles'
red democracy
Bumped
off with White House pots and pans
A warning to Mediterranean governments
The secret police have been embraced for decades
The
NKPD and CIA keep each other's secrets
The
OGBU and DIA never hit their own
The
KGB and the FBI are one mind
Brute
force and full of money
Brute
force, world-wide, and full of money
Brute
force, world-wide, and full of money
Brute
force, world-wide, and full of money
Brute
force, world-wide, and full of money
It
had to be rich and it had to be powerful
They
had to murder in Indonesia 500000
They
had to murder in Indochina 2000000
They
had to murder in Czechoslovakia
They
had to murder in Chile
They
had to murder in Russia
And they had to murder in America.
Yeah!