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What the devil's goin' on
Why don't your turn that music down
You're going deaf and that's for sure
But all you do is scream for more
Get the lead out go for broke
Pop your pills and drink and smoke
Shoot those chemicals into your vein
Anything to ease the pain
Heavy metal (heavy metal) poisoning (it's a poison)
A toxic wasteland (got a toxic wasteland) in your ear canal (in your ear canal!)
Overloaded (I'm overloaded), suffering (yeah!)
Overloaded (overloaded) on sex and drugs
Everything is black and white
You are wrong and we are right
First we'll spank your big behinds
Then we'll twist your little minds
I'm Dr. Righteous (I'm Dr. Righteous), and I'm here to sing (yeah!)
That heavy metal (heavy metal) is poisoning
It's a music wasteland, that destroys the young (yeah!)
They're overloaded (overloaded) on sex and drugs, sex and drugs, sex and drugs
And rock and roll!
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I'm Dr. Righteous (I'm Dr. Righteous), and I'm here to sing (yeah!)
That heavy metal (heavy metal) is poisoning
It's a music wasteland, that destroys the young (yeah!)
They're overloaded (overloaded) on sex and drugs, sex and drugs, sex and drugs
And rock and roll!
Heavy metal (heavy metal) poisoning (it's a poison)<>br
A toxic wasteland (got a toxic wasteland) in your love canal love canal!)
Overloaded (I'm overloaded), suffering (yeah!)
Overloaded (overloaded) on sex and drugs, sex and drugs, sex and drugs
sex and drugs, sex and drugs, sex and drugs, sex and drugs, sex and drugs
"Righteous! Righteous!..."
"Shut up!"
"...Righteous! Righteous! Righteous! Righteous! Righteous! Yeah!"
"Shut up! Shut up!"
[giggles]
It is interesting that Dr. Righteous chooses to use a hard rocking heavy metal sound to get his message across to the youth he is targeting since it is just that type of music that he is condemning. This is used to condition the populace to accept contradiction as normal so that they will believe anything the government tells them without question . It is also interesting that the song begins with a backward message which when played in reverse says "Annuit Coeptis Novus Ordo Seclorum," a Latin phrase on the U.S. dollar bill meaning "God has favored our undertakings, a new order of the ages." Dr. Righteous apparently is trying to subliminally influence the listener to believe that his message is favored by God and his movement is "a new order of the ages." Later in the song, during a guitar solo there is a background sound which may also be a backward message. When played in reverse, the many hear the sound as "Satan holds the secrets," which would indicate that Dr. Righteous is secretly trying to influence the listener in other evil ways as well. If this is, in fact, the second backwards message (the words are nearly unintelligible), it may also be a reference to Satan's role in convincing Adam and Eve to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge in disobedience of God's commands, causing humanities fall from grace (Genesis, Chapter 3). Many others hear the sound as "Sparky appears in a show bill on the cover of Paradise Theatre and who is mentioned in the song Rockin' The Paradise from that album in the line "go Sparky, go!"
The song uses a couple of interesting plays on words. First, the term "heavy metal poisoning" is relating the rock & roll musical genre called heavy metal to the medical disorder called heavy metal poisoning . Second, at the end of the song, the term "love canal" is substituted for "ear canal" from previous verses. Perhaps the most infamous case of an environmental disaster surrounding a toxic waste dump was at Love Canal, New York, in 1977. A possible additional double meaning to this term is the common reference of the vagina as the "love canal," which may be a reference to the sex portion of the line "sex and drugs and rock & roll" whereas the earlier use of the term "ear canal" is obviously a reference to the rock & roll portion of that phrase.