Take your seat the show’s about to start
Strike up the overture
Put a beat behind the stripes and stars
And send the boys off to war
With a tune they can whistle while the bullets rain
A crude entertainment of sorts
Qualudes and whiskey to dull the pain
I’ll take whatever they’ve got
Pretty black dots
So make your peace with God but sod the law
I’m bent on a life of crime
All I need’s a forty dollar whore
Who’s prepared to play Bonny to my Clyde
If you really wanna see the world up close
Why don’t you take another shot
A million little life’s under the microscope
So just sit back and watch
Those pretty black dots
Pretty black dots