Step Into The Madness
Version 1 is a full studio recording
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Stranded In Babylon [European Version]
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Version 2 is a remix of version 1. The most obvious difference is that the chorus after the guitar solo is removed
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Version 3 is a live recording, performed solo with acoustic guitar
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Totally Unplugged [Note that the whilst the cassette release includes an additional paragraph in the spoken introduction, the song performance is the same on both CD and cassette]
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lyrics version 1
Hold it hold it
Listen [Spoken]
Step into the madness of a million city streets
Where dealers sell white powder and children stand and bleed
Where local gangs are vicious and cops are so impure
That schoolboys carry uzis so they'll feel secure
Where fathers rape their daughters and beat up on their sons
Until the mother tries to stop him and goes and buys a gun
Where the local church is closed except a couple times a week
And turns its face from all the homeless in the street
Wo oh oh this is America (This is America)
Land of the free (This is America)
Everyone gets justice (This is America)
And liberty
If you got the money
Bankers and controllers make deals on foreign shores
And the CIA ships heroin to finance their secret wars
They sell the madmen weapons then send soldiers to their land
And in the name of God we battle for all the oil under the sand
This is America (This is America)
Land of the free (This is America)
Everyone gets justice
Everyone gets justice (This is America)
And liberty
If you got the money
Step into the madness
Guitar [Spoken]
This is America brother
Land of the free
Everyone gets justice
And liberty
If you got the money
If you got the money
Woh step into the madness as a thousand points of light
Illuminate the warheads for the final fight
Step into the madness, say your prayers and drink your tea
Get ready for a kinder, gentler world war three
This is America (This is America)
Land of the free (This is America)
Everyone (This is America)
Everyone gets justice
And liberty
If you got the money
This is America (This is America)
Land of the free yeah (This is America)
Everyone gets justice (This is America)
And there is liberty
If you've got the money
Step into the madness
Where are those wacky Peters Brothers when you need them [BACKWARDS MASKED]
Listen [Spoken]
Step into the madness of a million city streets
Where dealers sell white powder and children stand and bleed
Where local gangs are vicious and cops are so impure
That schoolboys carry uzis so they'll feel secure
Where fathers rape their daughters and beat up on their sons
Until the mother tries to stop him and goes and buys a gun
Where the local church is closed except a couple times a week
And turns its face from all the homeless in the street
Wo oh oh this is America (This is America)
Land of the free (This is America)
Everyone gets justice (This is America)
And liberty
If you got the money
Bankers and controllers make deals on foreign shores
And the CIA ships heroin to finance their secret wars
They sell the madmen weapons then send soldiers to their land
And in the name of God we battle for all the oil under the sand
This is America (This is America)
Land of the free (This is America)
Everyone gets justice
Everyone gets justice (This is America)
And liberty
If you got the money
Step into the madness
Guitar [Spoken]
This is America brother
Land of the free
Everyone gets justice
And liberty
If you got the money
If you got the money
Woh step into the madness as a thousand points of light
Illuminate the warheads for the final fight
Step into the madness, say your prayers and drink your tea
Get ready for a kinder, gentler world war three
This is America (This is America)
Land of the free (This is America)
Everyone (This is America)
Everyone gets justice
And liberty
If you got the money
This is America (This is America)
Land of the free yeah (This is America)
Everyone gets justice (This is America)
And there is liberty
If you've got the money
Step into the madness
Where are those wacky Peters Brothers when you need them [BACKWARDS MASKED]
lyrics version 2
Hold it hold it
Listen [Spoken]
Step into the madness of a million city streets
Where dealers sell white powder and children stand and bleed
Where local gangs are vicious and cops are so impure
That schoolboys carry uzis so they'll feel secure
Where fathers rape their daughters and beat up on their sons
Until the mother tries to stop him and goes and buys a gun
Where the local church is closed except a couple times a week
And turns its face from all the homeless in the street
Wo oh oh this is America (This is America)
Land of the free (This is America)
Everyone gets justice (This is America)
And liberty
If you got the money
Bankers and controllers make deals on foreign shores
And the CIA ships heroin to finance their secret wars
They sell the madmen weapons then send soldiers to their land
And in the name of God we battle for all the oil under the sand
This is America (This is America)
Land of the free (This is America)
Everyone gets justice
Everyone gets justice (This is America)
And liberty
If you got the money
Step into the madness
Guitar [Spoken]
Oh step into the madness as a thousand points of light
Illuminate the warheads for the final fight
Step into the madness, say your prayers and drink your tea
Get ready for a kinder, gentler world war three
This is America (This is America)
Land of the free (This is America)
Everyone (This is America)
Everyone gets justice
And liberty
If you got the money
This is America (This is America)
Land of the free yeah (This is America)
Everyone gets justice (This is America)
And there is liberty
If you've got the money
Step into the madness
Where are those wacky Peters Brothers when you need them [BACKWARDS MASKED]
Listen [Spoken]
Step into the madness of a million city streets
Where dealers sell white powder and children stand and bleed
Where local gangs are vicious and cops are so impure
That schoolboys carry uzis so they'll feel secure
Where fathers rape their daughters and beat up on their sons
Until the mother tries to stop him and goes and buys a gun
Where the local church is closed except a couple times a week
And turns its face from all the homeless in the street
Wo oh oh this is America (This is America)
Land of the free (This is America)
Everyone gets justice (This is America)
And liberty
If you got the money
Bankers and controllers make deals on foreign shores
And the CIA ships heroin to finance their secret wars
They sell the madmen weapons then send soldiers to their land
And in the name of God we battle for all the oil under the sand
This is America (This is America)
Land of the free (This is America)
Everyone gets justice
Everyone gets justice (This is America)
And liberty
If you got the money
Step into the madness
Guitar [Spoken]
Oh step into the madness as a thousand points of light
Illuminate the warheads for the final fight
Step into the madness, say your prayers and drink your tea
Get ready for a kinder, gentler world war three
This is America (This is America)
Land of the free (This is America)
Everyone (This is America)
Everyone gets justice
And liberty
If you got the money
This is America (This is America)
Land of the free yeah (This is America)
Everyone gets justice (This is America)
And there is liberty
If you've got the money
Step into the madness
Where are those wacky Peters Brothers when you need them [BACKWARDS MASKED]
lyrics version 3
Well here’s a song about eh America, but mostly you know Los Angeles. You can help me with this song too, you can sing [Spoken]
This is America [x3]
Just three times. So you’ll be singing like [Spoken]
This is Amer
And I’ll be singing [Spoken]
This is America
And you don’t get fooled by that, you just keep singing [Spoken]
This is Amer
Think you got it? You Texans you. OK [Spoken]
And I don't want you to think I think this is going on all over America, I love America. This is just what goes on in Los Angeles. But eh, now that other big cities have the same problems [Spoken - this part edited out of the CD release]
Step into the madness of a million city streets
Where the dealers sell white powder and children stand and bleed
Where the local gangs are vicious and the cops are so impure
That schoolboys carry uzis so they'll feel secure
Mothers
Where fathers rape their daughters and beat up on their sons
Until the mother tries to stop him and goes and buys a gun
Where the local church is closed except a couple times a week
And turns its face from all the homeless in the street
This is America, this
This is America, land of the free
Everyone gets justice
Everyone gets justice and liberty
If they got the money
Ba da ba ba ba ba bah bow
Bankers and controllers make deals on foreign shores
The CIA ships heroin to finance their secret wars
They sell the madmen weapons then send soldiers to their land
And in the name of God we battle for all the oil under their sand
Is America, this
This is America, land of the free
Everyone gets justice
And liberty
Yeah if you got the money
Oh if they’ve got the money
Bababababa etc
Step into the madness as a thousand points of light
Illuminate the warheads for the final fight
Step into the madness, say your prayers and drink your tea
Get ready for a kinder, gentler world war three
This is America
This is America
Land of the free
Everyone gets justice
And liberty
If they got the money
If they got the money
This is America [x3]
Just three times. So you’ll be singing like [Spoken]
This is Amer
And I’ll be singing [Spoken]
This is America
And you don’t get fooled by that, you just keep singing [Spoken]
This is Amer
Think you got it? You Texans you. OK [Spoken]
And I don't want you to think I think this is going on all over America, I love America. This is just what goes on in Los Angeles. But eh, now that other big cities have the same problems [Spoken - this part edited out of the CD release]
Step into the madness of a million city streets
Where the dealers sell white powder and children stand and bleed
Where the local gangs are vicious and the cops are so impure
That schoolboys carry uzis so they'll feel secure
Mothers
Where fathers rape their daughters and beat up on their sons
Until the mother tries to stop him and goes and buys a gun
Where the local church is closed except a couple times a week
And turns its face from all the homeless in the street
This is America, this
This is America, land of the free
Everyone gets justice
Everyone gets justice and liberty
If they got the money
Ba da ba ba ba ba bah bow
Bankers and controllers make deals on foreign shores
The CIA ships heroin to finance their secret wars
They sell the madmen weapons then send soldiers to their land
And in the name of God we battle for all the oil under their sand
Is America, this
This is America, land of the free
Everyone gets justice
And liberty
Yeah if you got the money
Oh if they’ve got the money
Bababababa etc
Step into the madness as a thousand points of light
Illuminate the warheads for the final fight
Step into the madness, say your prayers and drink your tea
Get ready for a kinder, gentler world war three
This is America
This is America
Land of the free
Everyone gets justice
And liberty
If they got the money
If they got the money
Charles Norman: "Step into the Madness. It’s all me. Larry wrote the words. I was going stir crazy in the mountains and had a bunch of weird keyboard ideas. That's the Tubby The Tuba Theme. A kinder gentler world war 3 - Those were a paraphrase of George Bush's words."
The studio recording of this song contains backwards masked lyrics near the end, where Larry sings "Where are those wacky Peters Brothers when you need them". The video below will explain why, and you can hear it on the right.
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