Thanx but No Thanx Lyrics

MUSIC: Jourgensen, LYRICS: Jourgensen]
[THANKSGIVING PRAYERr: William Burrgoughs]
Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons, destined to be s*** out through wholesome American guts.
Thanks for a continent to despoil and poison.
Thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger.
Thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin leaving the carcasses to rot.
Thanks for bounties on wolves and coyotes.
Thanks for the American dream,
To vulgarize and to falsify until the bare lies shine through.
Thanks for the KKK.
For n*****-killin' lawmen, feelin' their notches.
For decent church-goin' women, with their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces.
Thanks for "Kill a Queer for Christ" stickers.
Thanks for laboratory AIDS.
Thanks for Prohibition and the war against drugs.
Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind the own business.
Thanks for a nation of finks.
Yes, thanks for all the memories-- all right let's see your arms!
You always were a headache and you always were a bore.
Thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams.
What do you see?
A big pile of nothing...
What do you want in a country like that? What do you see in a country like that?
What are you doin' in a country like that? I got no answers, well I say

Thanks but no thanks, thanks but no thanks, thanks but no thanks, thanks but no thanks
You can keep it all thanks
What do you feel?
Probably next to nothing...
What do you want in a country like that? What do you see in a country like that?
What are you doin' in a country like that? I got no answers, well I say

Thanks but no thanks, thanks but no thanks, thanks but no thanks, thanks but no thanks

Thanks but no thanks, thanks but no thanks, thanks but no thanks, thanks but no thanks

I say thanks but no thanks - for the American Dream
I say thanks but no thanks - for the drugs