Lie Detector lyrics

We have reviewed your yellow form

Congratulations, we find you qualified

You've just the right capacity

For putting up with our nonsense

There's just one thing you've got to prove

We know how you must be dishonest and lazy

If you're so desperate

You actually want to work at this place

You must be guilty - Lie detector

Be guilty - Lie detector

Be guilty - Lie detector

Till you're proven innocent these days

Blood pressure clamps around your arms

Now don't get nervous when we yell in your face

We know you steal, just who do you screw?

With what, with who, aren't you a Christian?

The polygraph, don't make it move

One little twitch, the anvil drops on you

Don't matter if you told the truth

We want your facial egg for our file

You must be guilty - Lie detector

Be guilty - Lie detector

Be guilty - Lie detector

Till you're proven innocent these days

Proven innocent these days

March!

Ha, ha!

Guilty - Till proven innocent

Guilty - It says so on your face

Guilty - When you try to find

Guilty - A place to live or a job that pays

Guilty - When you file a complaint

Guilty - Against the cop that kicked your face last night

Guilty - It says so on page three

Guilty - Who'd think a guy like me

Would plant drugs in your car?

Break in your house while you're asleep

Open your mouth, bet your ass you're watched

And it's your word against ours

Yeah, just because we're hiring you

No, that don't mean that we trust you at all

You'll have to take a test like this

Once or twice every week

We know machines, they make mistakes

And it's your word against our dead black box

The machine is always right

'Cause we know how it makes you feel so small

You must be guilty - Lie detector

Be guilty - Lie detector

Be guilty - Lie detector

Till you're proven innocent

Be guilty - Lie detector

Be guilty - Lie detector

Be guilty - Lie detector

Till you're proven innocent these days

Proven innocent these days

'Cause when you're innocent...

When you're innocent...

When you're innocent it just don't pay

• Artist:Dead Kennedys
• Album:Bedtime for Democracy (1986)