Lyrics for Corona as interpreted by bocmaxima

Corona Lyrics
The people will survive
In their environment
The dirt, scarcity, and the emptiness
Of our South
The injustice of our greed
The practice we inherit
The dirt, scarcity and the emptiness
Of our South
There on the beach
I could see it in her eyes
I only had a Corona
Five cent deposit

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bocmaxima
04-05-2005

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The "Jackass" theme song! I can't believe it wasn't up here already, although few know who wrote it.
This is a really interesting song lyrically. I think it's about Southern culture.

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stereo fan
04-09-2005

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i was just watching jackass...great song and retardedly awesome t.v. show!!

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super_noodles
06-18-2006

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blergh! it's an amazing song in it's own right.

the thing i love about the minutemen is that they're political but not in a really overtly preachy, rage against the machine way. it's more observational. apparently d.boon wrote it after a trip to mexico in 1982.

"the injustice of our greed" - sums it up completely.

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TheIronFaceofSteel
02-14-2007

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I read somewhere that Mike and D wrote it after a trip to Mexico, so it's about their sadness at that country's problems and helpessness to solve them.

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artslut
08-22-2007

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I hate everybody who only know Minutemen from Jackass. Or 40 Oz to Freedom. But as long as people know about them, I guess it's ok. But still, lame.

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rizzen
09-24-2007

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agreed.

Lame.

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tidesoncrim
11-21-2007

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Definitely my favorite song on the album, and I owned the album way before Jackass premiered. Double Nickels on the Dime is an alternative/punk rock masterpiece.

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supposablethumbs
03-25-2008

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This is a great song even if the politics are retarded. These guys were young, uninformed and misguided but the heart they put in their music was real.

Why is it that whenever someone wants to express their politics in song, or elsewhere, it's either cheesy, white-guilt, American self-loathing (like this song) or the "git-out, these colors don't run, I say we nuke 'em all and build a golf course on their desert!" strain of American braggadocio bullshit.

Seriously open up an economics textbook and shut the f**k up.

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rainwalk
06-10-2008

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supposablethumbs : take a chill pill, dude. What's white-guilt about observing the fact that your luxury comes at the expense of someone else? You've probably never looked a poor person in the eye while you paid them for a service from your fat wallet. At least you've probably never done that and actually thought about it or given a sh*t, or felt like you wished you could help them out. Don't have to be white to understand that your comfort is built on the suffering of others.

So open up a history book and shut the f**k up.

Better yet, get out more from your white-fear-world, loser.

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derekmas10
09-03-2008

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They had gone to Mexico after playing one of their premiere performance art shows the night before. They had all shaved their heads and painted their skulls black to look like a matchbook.
When they got to Mexico, they spent their day getting wasted on the beach and passed out - getting extremely sunburnt.
When they awoke, there was a Mexican lady on the beach picking up their beer bottles for the deposit money.
Southern California having once been Mexico and acquired due to some quick thinking by Jefferson while Napoleon was distracted by empirical madness lives in the lap of luxury while the rest of Mexico exists in poverty - the injustice of our greed. And - if you've ever visited Baja - it's a rather dirty, scarcely populated tribute to this "practice we inherit" as Americans.

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