Le Tigre Album

Deceptacon

Who took the bomp?

Every day and night,
Every day and night,
I can see your disco disco dick is sucking my heart out of my mind.
I'm outta time; I'm outta fuckin time.
I'm a gasoline gut with a vaseline mind, but
Wanna disco? Wanna see me disco?
Let me hear you depoliticize my rhyme.
One! Two! Three! Four!
You got what you been asking for.
You're so policy free and you're fantasy wheels and everything you think
and everything you feel is alright, alright, alright, alright, alright.

I take you home, now watch me get you hot.
You're just a parrot when you're screaming and you're shouting,
"More crackers please, more crackers please."
You want what you want but you don't wanna be on your knees.
Who does your... who does your hair?

Who took the bomp from the bompalompalomp?
Who took the ram from the ramalamadingdong?
Who took the bomp from the bompalompalomp?
Who took the ram from the ramalamadingdong?

How are you?
Fine, thank you.
How are you?
Fine, thank you.

You bought a new van the first year of your band.
You're cool and I hardly wanna say "no" because I'm so bored
that I'll be entertained even by a stupid, fucking linoneum floor, linoleum floor.
Your lyrics are dumb like a linoleum floor.
I'll walk on it.
I'll walk all over you.
Walk on it, walk on it, walk on. One, Two!

Who? Who? Who? Who?

Who took the bomp from the bompalompalomp?
Who took the ram from the ramalamadingdong?
Who took the bomp from the bompalompalomp?
Who took the ram from the ramalamadingdong?

See you later!
See you later.
See you later!
See you later.

hot topic is the way that we rhyme
hot topic is the way that we rhyme
one step behind the drum style
one step behind the drum style
Carol Rama and Elanor Antin
Yoko Ono and Carolee Schneeman
You're getting old, that's what they'll say, but
Don't give a damn I'm listening anyway
Stop, don't you stop
I can't live if you stop
Don't you stop
Gretchen Phillips and Cibo Matto
Leslie Feinburg and Faith Ringgold
Mr. Lady, Laura Cottingham
Mab Segrest and The Butchies, man
Don't stop
Don't you stop
We won't stop
Don't you stop
So many roads and so much opinion
So much shit to give in, give in to
So many rules and so much opinion
So much bullshit but we won't give in
Stop, we won't stop
Don't you stop
I can't live if you stop
Tammy Rae Carland and Sleater-Kinney
Vivienne Dick and Lorraine O'Grady
Gayatri Spivak and Angela Davis
Laurie Weeks and Dorothy Allison
Stop, don't you stop
Please don't stop
We won't stop
Gertrude Stein, Marlon Riggs, Billie Jean King, Ut, DJ Cuttin Candy, David Wojnarowicz, Melissa York, Nina Simone, Ann Peebles, Tammy Hart, The Slits, Hanin Elias, Hazel Dickens, Cathy Sissler, Shirley Muldowney, Urvashi vaid, Valie Export, Cathy Opie, James Baldwin, Diane Dimassa, Aretha Franklin, Joan Jett, Mia X, Krystal Wakem, Kara Walker, Justin Bond, Bridget Irish, Juliana Lueking, Cecelia Dougherty, Ariel Skrag, The Need, Vaginal Creme Davis, Alice Gerard, Billy Tipton, Julie Doucet, Yayoi Kusama, Eileen Myles
Oh no no no don't stop stop............

We've talked about it in letters.
And we've talked about it on the phone.
But how you really feel about it.
I don't really know.
What's your take on Cassavettes?
What's your take on Cassavettes?
What's your take on Cassavettes?
What's your take on Cassavettes?
Misogynist? Genius? Misogynist? Genius?
Misogynist? Genius? Misogynist? Genius?
What's your take on Cassavettes?
What's your take on Cassavettes?
What's your take on Cassavettes?
What's your take on Cassavettes?
Alcoholic? Messiah? Alcoholic? Messiah?
Alcoholic? Messiah? Alcoholic? Messiah?
What's your take on Cassavettes?
What's your take on Cassavettes?
What's your take on Cassavettes?
What's your take on Cassavettes?
Genius? Misogynist? Alcoholic?
Hey where'd Gena?
Genius? Misogynist? Messiah? Alcoholic?
What's your take on
What's your take on
What's your take on
What's your take on Cassavettes?

The stars are getting in and out of automobiles
And we keep wondering when we're gonna feel something real
Keep waiting for a Santa that will never come
A real party not just people who're faking fun
But everything gets erased before it's even said
And all that glitters isn't gold when inside it's dead
All that glitter is not gold
All that glitter is not gold
All that glitter is not gold
All that glitter is not gold
I went to your concert and I didn't feel anything
I went to your concert and I didn't hear anything
I went to your concert and I didn't feel anything
I went to your concert and I didn't see anything
(Oh Baby) Why won't you talk to me?
(Oh Baby) You just want me empty!
(Oh Baby) You don't say anything!
(Oh Baby) Why won't you answer me?
All that glitter is not gold
All that glitter is not gold
All that glitter is not gold
All that glitter is not gold
I sat through your movie but I didn't see anything.
I went to your comedy club and didn't laugh at all.
I went to your movie and I didn't hear anything.
I went to your concert and there was nothing going on.
You don't say
You don't say
You don't say anything.......

(One the morning of June 14, 1968
A group of hippies fled into the mountains of Colorado to wait for doomsday)

4 months + 8 days
Been waiting here
Transporter broken
Horizon's clear

(DAY ONE)
No vegetation
Blips on my screen
Whatever was here
Has been disappeared

Now here's alright (x2)
Alright

(DAY TWO)
Wait tower
Radar's going off
I see a small creature
Who can barely walk

My data says "large"
But what I see is small
Text reads "Big Danger"
This just looks tired

Now here's alright (x2)
Alright, alright

(DAY THREE)
Come in tower
All our data's wrong
Research inconsistent
We misread it all

There was no monster
And what's left is near dead
Control killed a phantom
From inside their heads

(Come in, come in
You've lost my screen
Do you respond?
Variable text field is frozen
Look at your monitors
Dont take your eyes off the monitor
We're losing you
Subterra outpost, stay calm
We're losing you
You're going-)

Now here's alright
Nowhere's alright
Alright, alright, alright,al-

I'm in the sky when I'm on the floor
The world's a mess and yr my only cure
There's no time for me to act mature
The only words I know are "more, more" and "more"

No one to criticize me then
No one to criticize
No one to criticize me then
No one to criticize

There's no fear when I'm in my room
It's so clear and I know just what I want to do
All day bedroom dancing
To you I wanna say
Yr my thing.

Oh we could rock
Or we could bomb
Or we could try
Like super hard
Or we could come
Or we could lose
Or we could totally
totally, totally freak you
I wanna spread my dementia
I wanna knock it off the line
Give me attention
Every day and every night
We could suck
"They might improve"
We get out grades from
Professor You
Or we could fly
Demystified
Or we could please you
all night
I wanna spread my dementia
I wanna knock it off the line
Give me attention
Every day and every night
Don't want no crusty bullshit
No crap or attitude
Just wanna get electric tonight
you know with you you you
Or we could, or we could
Or we could, or we could
Fail, fail. Fail. So!?

Off the pillow and into the air
I'm ready cause it's my day
Situation: it's all possible
Everything is going my way

My My Metrocard
My My Metrocard
My My Metrocard
Think I'll go a little but then I go far

Oh fuck
Giuliani
He's such
A fucking jerk
Shut down
All the stripbars
Workfare
Does not work

My My Metrocard
My My Metrocard
My My Metrocard

Think I'll go a little but then I go far

Next stop
Atlantic Avenue
Next stop
Christopher Street
Next stop
Transfer to the
Next stop
A,C, or E

The phone keeps ringing and it just won't stop
There's a paper napkin in my coffeepot
People freaking out on me left and right
My head feels heavy but my feet feel light

The clock keeps ticking inside my head
Bad news is all I ever get
The check I've been waiting for is not on time
Everyone around me wants to start another fight

I'm gonna let it be alright
(I wanna be there!)
(I wanna take you there!)
(I wanna be there!)
(I wanna take you there!)

We favor the simple expression of the complex thought.
We are for the large shape, because it has the impact of the unequivocal.

We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth.

The artist was attempting to make art more than something to just look at,
they wanted it something to be involved in, something too big to ignore.

It is our function as artists to make the spectator to see the world our way, not his way.

So defeated
Thinks it's funny
Film Festival
Retro porn
Shabby Chic
Bicoastal
Soundtrack
Carnivore
Transgressive
Gone fishin'
Shock value
Good contract
Big collection
Independent
Devil's advocate
Protegé

Ooooh! Oooooh!
Ooooh! Oooooh!

Hawaiian shirt
Buddy buddy
Just chillin'
Crystal meth
Big budget
Dirty hair
Anti PC
Dive bar
Universal
Hilton safari
Euro connection
Topless now
Obscure reference
Likes parties
Fake childhood
Muscle tee

Ooooh! Oooooh!
Ooooh! Oooooh!

Nine years old,
and climbing out the house
through a song
played on piano
by my neighbors Les and Ray.
I put my head
up against the wall
to be closer
to the music that they played.
You were my oxygen,
the thing that made me think
I could escape.
This is a thank you song
for Les and Ray.
You were my batteries,
the thing that made me think
I could escape.
Here's a song
for Les and
Here's a song
for Les and Ray.