Written by allen ginsberg, performed by rage against the machine      It had to be flashin' like the daily double   It had to be playin' on tv   It had to be loud mouthed on the comedy hour   It had to be announced over loud speakers      The cia and 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 a big 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 the mind   It had to be barked on tv   It 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 vegas      It had to be fbi chief j. edgar hoover and frank costello syndicate   Mouthpiece 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 mafia   Who sold all their heroin in america      It had to be the fbi and organized crime working together   In cahoots against the commies      It had to be ringing on multinational cash registers   World-wide laundry for organized criminal money      It had to be the cia and the mafia and the fbi together   They were bigger than nixon   And they were bigger that 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 mafia   It had to be organized crime      One big set of gangs working together in cahoots      Hitmen   Murderers everywhere      The secret   The drunk   The 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 attica   They wanted kent state   They wanted war in indochina      It had to be the cia and the mafia and the fbi      Multinational 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 pilots   Manned 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 chile   They had to murder in russia      And they had to murder in america