I think this whole Neocon armagedon deathrace thing is affecting me

[Syncronaut Seven]

Todd Rundgren sounds good today.

Heavy Metal Kids:
It's like a normal Times Square day on 42nd Street
I feel like trashing some windows and crunching some feet
I watch society crumble and I just laugh (hee hee)
They soon will see what it's like to be the other half

But I'm trying
Said I'm trying to forget
And it ain't happened yet

I musta woke up this morning with a bug up my ass
I think I'll just haul off and belt the next jerk that I pass
My old man says I'm just a stoned little punk
But he keeps himself a pistol and he's always drunk

I know
Something's gonna give
Pretty soon
I know it
Something's gonna give
I wanna live
I wanna mess thing whole world around
Go on and poison all the water, use up all the air
Blow your stupid heads off, see if I could care
Put me down but don't blame me for what you did
'Cause inside everyone is a heavy metal kid

I was a sweet little kid once
Now I'm a full grown crank
And when I die I'll probably come back as a Sherman tank
I know that I could make this world so peaceful and calm
If I could only get my hands on a hydrogen bomb

[Philostopher]

1. I've used that last verse about the Sherman tank

often as a signature line on my mail, the past several years. When I was in the middle of a draining, sometimes ugly divorce I actually had the lyrics printed out in 36-point and tacked up on the wall in my apartment. And Todd's still a heavy metal kid, in some ways, so that makes it that much more amusing -- thirty years later, he still is.