City Hall
Tenacious D
all you people up there in city hall you’re fuckin’ it up for the people that’s in the streets. this is a song for the people in the streets not the people city hall. - - - - - - - all you motherfuckers in the streets it’s time to rise up come along children and fuckin’ rise! (4x) lots of times when me and kg are watchin’ all the fuckin’ shit that goes down at city hall we get the feeling we should fuck shit up yeah we should fuckin’ start a riot. ...a riot! we have ’em screaming in the streets we have ’em tippin’ over shit and breakin’ fuckin’ windows of small businesses and settin’ fuckin’ fires! and settin’ fuckin’ fires! and settin’ fuckin’ fires! (3x) {spoken} ( ) e|------0-------0-------0-------0---------0-------0-----1-----0----------| B|-----0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0-----2-2-2---1-1---3-3--0------------| G|----6---6---5---5---4---4---2---2-----3---3---2---2-2------0-----------| D|---7-------6-------5-------4---------3-------2-----0-----2-------------| A|--0-------0-------0-------0-------0-0-------0--------------------------| E|--------------------------------------------------------0--------------| and then after the smoke is cleared and the rubble has been swept away me and kg will peek out our heads. we’ve been watching the riots on a monitor twenty floors below sea level from a bunker. we did it rage-kage we beat the bastards of city hall! {laughs} but now what will we do? we must rebuild. but who will lead us in the rebuilding process? man it’s got to be someone with the know-how and the elbow grease to lead us to a new land. no not me and kg we don’t have the cognitive capacity to lead... alright we’ll do it! {sung} we’ll lead as two kings we’ll lead as two kings. ahhhaaa (two kings we’ll lead as two kings) ah-ha ah-how we’ll lead as two kings. {spoken} the first decree is to legalize marijuana. the tyranny and the bullshit’s gone on too long. you old fuckin’ shrivs who blocked it’s legalization you’re banished from the land! {sung} we’ll lead as two kings we’ll lead as two kings. ahhhaaa (two kings we’ll lead as two kings) ah-ha ah-how lead as two kings. {spoken} / the second decree: no more pollution no more car exhaust or ocean dumpage. from now on we will travel in tubes! {sung} we’ll lead as two kings oh yeah we’ll fuckin’ lead as two kings. {spoken} / get the scientists working on the tube technology immediately. (tube technology.) chop chop let’s go. third decree: no more... rich people: and poor people. from now on we will all be the same... ummm i dunno i gotta think about that... {sung} we’ll lead as two kings ah yeah ah yeahhhahahaha. ha-ha-ho-hee ha-ha-ho-hee-ha-ha-ho-ho-ho-ho. {spoken} {jb:} oh my god. {kg:} ahh... what? {jb:} dude the red phone is flashing. {kg:} oh yeah. {jb:} let me scoop that up. hello? two kings. {kg:} who is it? {jb:} what?! no! no fucking way! {kg:} what? {jb:} rage there’s a potato famine in idaho you gotta go down there! {kg:} oh my god... what? {jb:} dude i gotta stay here! {kg:} why do i have to go? {jb:} please! please! {kg:} oh god okay. {jb:} awesome... is he gone? alright emergency meeting of parliament. all right parliament i know this is fucked up but rage he can’t be king anymore. dudes he’s encroaching on my decrees! seriously let’s make him "duke" a kick ass "duke." or "leader formerly known as king" but-- uh-oh he’s comin’ back... {sung} we’ll lead as two kings oh yes we’ll really lead as two kings. {spoken} {kg:} uh dude? {jb:} rage. {kg:} i went all over idaho... {jb:} yeah? {kg:} uh plenty of potatoes everywhere. {jb:} what? there was no famine? {kg:} yeah there was no famine no. {jb:} dude. {kg:} i don’t know what’s uh... {jb:} a toast... {kg:} a toast... {jb:} long live the "d." {kg:} long live the "d." {clinking of glasses} {jb:} long live me. i’m sorry i poisoned your wine. {kg:} what? {jb:} for the good of the land. {kg:} you p-- i poisoned yours... huh heh as well. {jb/kg:} noooooooooo!!!!! ...no! {jb/kg:} Aaahhhhhhhh!!!!! {sung} city city city city city city shitty. shitty city shitty shitty city city shitty. hall hall hall hall hall hall hall hall. people inside me are askin’ me to smoke up city hall ’cause no one here is talkin’. people inside me are askin’ me to blow up city hall ’cause no one here is rockin’. people inside me are askin’ me to blow up city hall ’cause everyone is rock-’em sock-’em robots. everyone is rock-’em sock-’em robots. everyone is rock-’em sock-’em go! oh! {spoken} {jb:} don’t cut that part out. {kg:} we’ve got it. {jb:} um do you believe in god? {kg:} i believe i believe. {jb:} you do? {kg:} i believe in god. i believe in god. {jb: (laughs)} y’do-- {kg:} i believe in god. {jb:} do you? {kg:} i believe in god. malibu nights {kg (spoken):} yeah but you didn’t fuckin’ come out with this (one)--! {cuts off on "one"} {kg starts playing} {jb (spoken):} i got some lyrics. {sung} malibu nights tangerine dreams malibu neighs malibu dreams malibu makin’ a poo. stinky poo lookin’d view. because it’s time for my breakfast it’s time for some cheese. it’s time for the stink time for the breeze time for the... hah-or-eeee!