Rage Against 
The Machine
Miscellaneous
Hadda Be Playing 
On The Jukebox
It had to be flashin' like the daily double
It had to be playin' on 
TVIt 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 abig 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 MondeIt had to be barked on 
TVIt 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 VegasIt had to be 
FBI chief 
J. Edgar Hoover and 
Frank Costello syndicatemouthpiece 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 
MafiaWho sold all their heroin in 
AmericaIt had to be the 
FBI and organized crime working togetherin 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 
NixonAnd 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 
MafiaIt had to be organized crime
One big set of gangs working together in cahoots
HitmenMurderers everywhere
The secret
The drunkThe brutal
The dirty 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 
AtticaThey wanted 
Kent State
They wanted war in 
IndochinaIt had to be the 
CIA and the 
Mafia and the 
FBIMultinational capitalists
Strong armed squads
Private detective agencies for the 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 pilotsmanned 
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 
ChileThey had to murder in 
RussiaAnd they had to murder in 
America