Koro were a shortlived hardcore punk band from Knoxville, Tennessee. Their 7" self-titled EP was their only release. (It was released in 1983) They also recorded a demo for an unreleased LP entitled "Speed Kills". This EP was originally released with a pressing total of 500, although closer to 300 were actually sold. According to Carl Snow in an interview, the remainder were given to Jello Biafra when the band opened for the Dead Kennedys in Atlanta, and were subsequently lost. Koro split up in 1984.
Track List :
1. 700 Club
2. Selfless Johnny
3. It's Ok
4. Government
5. Dear Sirs
6. Blap!
7. Nauseous
8. Acid Causalty
700 Club
Now I'm gonna watch T.V. all day
Now I've got the chance to throw my life away
I'm gonna pray for a happy meal
I won't cheat, I won't steal
Thank you Pat
Listen to the preacher with the frosted hair
He says god is everywhere
I've gotta laugh cause I can see
He's fucking you but he won't fuck me
No siree
You cry and cry for human sacrifice
The gift is that of giving when you give
Your life to Christ
Amen Amen we sing unto these hills
Suburban T.V. crazies strung out on diet pills
That's you Pat
Now everybody in the neighborhood is gonna
Love the man who was nailed to wood
Useless martyrs need to die in the land
Where only suckers cry
Thank you Pat
Selfless Johnny
Johnny was a really great guy
When you were depressed he'd help you cry
Never crossed the grain of the throbbing masses
Had the intelligence of natural gases
He went off to die somewhere
Johnny was fighing in a war
But the girl in his bed was another whore
Jonny was fighting for a cause
Johnny came back wrapped up in gauze
He went off to die somewhere
Jonny you're selfless
Just like Ellsworth Tooey you're selfless
Go off and die somewhere
What good were you anyway stupid asshole?
It's OK
When the going gets tough you get going
Everything's OK
Don't concern yourself about it
It'll be just fine
You don't want to get involved
You just want the problem solved
Thinking while you're drinking that there's
Nothing you can do
You're real calm
Till it happens to you
What are you gonna do
When they knock on your door
What are you gonna do
When you get screwed
You never really saw the big deal
You never really thought it was for real
Now it's time to turn the other cheek
And you're scared too scared to speak
You gotta find a place to run and hide
You sneak through the alley
You think it's OK
You're dead now
Government
Give me unemployment
I want my money now
No sense in me working
When I get paid anyhow
I almost live for free
Your taxes go to me
This is how your money's spent
Don't you love the government
My mother is a drunkard
She brings home the welfare check
Gives it to my father
He beats her to a nervous wreck
Chorus
See mom's new baby, born alive
He's almost dead
He's a sickly little monster
Another mouth to be fed
Dear Sirs
I don't care about your nationality
Give a shit about your hospitality
Ronnie and his totality
Fuck your cap gun mentalities
Keep your back door strategies
Mental sub zero capacity
Lucrative poseur you're not for me
Show my own integrity
Dear Sirs, why fight
Dear Sirs, it's not right
T.V. soldiers nothing left to learn
High technology to time to burn
World of flames Ronnie's real concern
Washington Tea Party time to burn
Why not write your own amendments
We've got all day to rape your face
If you love to live die for it?
No way Ronnie I won't eat shit
Chorus
Repeat 1st verse
Dear Sirs!
Blap!
Wait a minute
Take these
Plaster caster
On your knees
Stupid bitch
You don't give a fuck
Down out and
Don't get up
You're wasted all over
Spill into the floor
You gell and you know it
Gell forever more
Blap!
Nauseous
Carl went to the ladies room
There he found a knife
Flipping both wrists over
He took his sorry life
Nauseous again, Nauseous as hell
Feeling pretty nauseous
Feeling pretty bad
Feeling like the breakfast
David Squad never had
Chorus
Sitting in Bundulees
Sitting in a chair
I feel so sick
I want to pull out my hair
Chorus
Tra la la (repeat)