Electric guitar gets run over by a car on the highway
This is a crime against the state
This is the meaning of life.

To tune this electric guitar

An electric guitar is brought in to a court of law
The judge and the jury (twelve members of the jury)
All listening to records
This is a crime against the state
This is the verdict they reach:

Never listen to electric guitar

Electric guitar is copies, the copy sounds better
Call this the law of justice, call this freedom and liberty
I thought I perjure myself, right in front of the jury!
Is this a crime against the state? No!
This is the verdict they reach:

Someone controls electric guitar.

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It's "copied" not "copies", though that was probably a typo.

I have this idea that this song is kind of about the gradual rise of the synthesizer in popular music. For a while people seemed kind of threatened that electronic instruments would entirely replace "real" ones, and this seems to be ridiculing that idea by taking it to the ludicrous extreme of electric guitars literally becoming outlawed.

It's "copied" not "copies", though that was probably a typo. I have this idea that this song is kind of about the gradual rise of the synthesizer in popular music. For a while people seemed kind of threatened that electronic instruments would entirely replace "real" ones, and this seems to be ridiculing that idea by taking it to the ludicrous extreme of electric guitars literally becoming outlawed.

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destroyalltacoson April 11, 2006 Link
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