Nopalitos - Lyrics - Victims Family
Victims Family is a hardcoreãpunk band formed in 1984 in Santa Rosa, California by bassist Larry Boothroyd and guitarist and vocalist Ralph Spight. Drummer Devon VrMeer completed the trio. Their sound blended punk, heavy metal and jazz, making them difficult to categorize into a single genre. Allmusic says, "since its inception, the trio has refused to be pigeonholed to any single musical style â incorporating elements of hardcore punk, jazz, funk, hard rock, and noise into its challenging sound". They were known as one of the most musically diverse bands in the San Francisco, California underground music scene. Over the years, Victims Family went through four drummers and two breakups. Their name was taken by a piece by cartoonist B. Kliban.
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(a cult tragedy at glance)
A man in a mission
and a man on a mission
Crockett and Koresh
Two guys named Dave
livin? in the old southwest.
One lived in Waco
the other just below
in San Antonio
the f**kin' Alamo!
Both took on a country
and died in an ashtray
Waco, the Alamo
towering inferno
taking heat from Mexico
and gas from Janet Reno
one Dave made the history books
with glory for his trauma
the other made the headlines
and a mini-docudrama.
Both took on a country
and died in an ashtray
but who was the hero?
and who was the psyco?
In the East to take your life
before defeat is to die with honor.
In the West we praise the man
who tried but died a hopeless goner.
