Zappa, Frank - The Idiot Bastard Son Lyrics






[includes a line from the Run Home, Slow soundtrack]

[The idiot bastard son:]
(THE FATHER'S A NAZI IN CONGRESS TODAY...
THE MOTHER'S A HOOKER SOMEWHERE IN L.A.)

[The idiot bastard son:]
(ABANDONED TO PERISH IN BACK OF A CAR...
KENNY WILL STASH HIM AWAY IN A JAR)
THE IDIOT BOY!

[Motorhead:]
I never wanted to because I was too small to start with, I used to drink really some bad stuff... Wine, all kinds of wine! Mixed, seven different varieties... Thunderbird wine... I don't know but I chugged a fifth of White Port once and passed out one day (heh heh)... and I drank a quart of beer just before that... and we were out riding around in the desert...

...very strange! Anyway...

Try and imagine
The window all covered in green
All the time he would spend
At the church he'd attend...
Warming his pew

Kenny will feed him & Ronnie will watch
THE CHILD WILL THRIVE & GROW
And enter the world
Of liars & cheaters & people like you
Who smile & think you know
What this is about

(YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING... maybe so)
The song we sing: DO YOU KNOW?
We're listening...
THE IDIOT BOY!

Try and imagine
The window all covered in green
All the time he would spend
All the colors he'd blend...
Where are they now?

[Gary Kellgren:]
Right now I have two hit records on the charts, but it has not made me any money. It has only brought me fame and glory, and a lot of work. Which I do, really not care to tell...





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  1. m.... c....

    did he use this song to write it Erik Satie: Gymnopédie No. 1

  2. S.... ....

    Could Zappa have known about the Trump Boys way back then?

    S.... ....

    you mean the book about Baron Trump ?

  3. 7.... ....

    it can't get any better than THIS SONG !!

    7.... ....

    Great fucking song !!!

  4. P.... D....

    When I got this album - I listened over and over! Man!

  5. D.... G....

    simply beautiful. This album is truly amazing

  6. R.... ....

    Jefferson airoplane parody!

  7. I.... E....

    Are the Ronnie and Kenny in this song the same as the Ronnie and Kenny in Let's Make the Water Turn Black?

    I.... E....

    it appears that way -read the lyrics:


    The idiot bastard son
    (THE FATHER'S A NAZI
    IN CONGRESS TODAY
    THE MOTHER'S A HOOKER
    SOMEWHERE IN L.A.)
    The idiot bastard son
    (ABANDONED TO PERISH
    IN BACK OF A CAR
    KENNY WILL STASH HIM AWAY
    IN A JAR)
    THE IDIOT BOY!(all the time he
    would spend at the church he'd attend...
    warming his pew)
    Kenny will feed him & Ronnie will watch
    THE CHILD WILL THRIVE AND GROW
    And enter the world
    Of liars & cheaters & people like you
    Who smile & think you know
    What this is about
    (YOU THINK YOU KNOW
    EVERYTHING...maybe so)
    The song we sing: DO YOU KNOW?
    We're listening...
    THE IDIOT BOY! (all the time he
    would spend all the colors he'd blend...
    where are they now?)

  8. H.... H....

    By the title i thought this is a song about jesus

  9. p.... ....

    This album must of been something else when it came out. I know of no other artist quite like Zappa during this period. He creates such a nice layering of colors.

    p.... ....

    I bought it for $1.99 (new) when I was a junior in high school. It opened my eyes!

  10. D.... I....

    From my favorite time period of Zappa.
    He lost me when he got the younger bands and started to water down his potency.
    He became "goofy frat boy Zappa" with song about "coneheads"...." Jewish princess" and other dreck.

    D.... I....

    He had to pay back all of the debts he incurred doing the music he wanted to, so he made some shamelessly crass commercial songs that reflected the stupidity of America back at itself. He wasn't a frat boy. he was doing a parody to pay off his debts.

    D.... I....

    Bro i get he preached against it, but the deal is whats the point if you don't get paid. Corporate greed is unfightable so we gotta pay bills. Its like seeing ozzy in a trolls movie man. Its sad. At least he probably had terms. And remeber he loved things that made people sick. A real curve ball.

    D.... I....

    @DXL Infinite: My main beef with his band arrangements in later years was when he started hiring "stunt guitarists" to play the written parts and rhythms, leaving him to just play solos live. I guess in the mid/late '70s and onward. I like the way Frank played the best, and not just his guitar-mangling solos (just as many of which are tiresome as are brilliant). Frank had finesse and feel as a rhythm player that few people had.

  11. B.... D....

    I was watching trump bitch about the budget he was signing today and I could hear Frank singing "The Idiot Bastard Son" Over and over in my head. Thank you Frank for that moment of sanity in an otherwise insane moment.

  12. p.... ....

    The sound of psychedelia - which is interesting from someone who never did them.

    p.... ....

    planetterrible
    You do not know who and what you're talking about.
    First of all, Zappa is not labelable
    neither as psychedelic nor as anything else.
    Secondly, Zappa did not use drugs and he fought its use.

    p.... ....

    You don't have to use drugs to enjoy psychedelic dude. Obviously FZ loved to tap into it via his musicians. He sure didn't discourage it (as along as they weren't getting high when he was hiring them).

    p.... ....

    Its hard to tell where the line of "irony" and "sincerity" is in his music (let alone anything anywhere), take ruben and the jets album, he is supposed to be "parodying" doowop but actually made an incredible album - stop giving people the idea that frank zappa was cool because he hated everything

    p.... ....

    @strawberrystudio2- Zappa's not 'labelable'. Nobody said that he was. Zappa did not use drugs and he fought its' use. Nobody said otherwise. 'You do not know who and what you're talking about......And you do? Seriously? I knew Frank Zappa and he wasn't an annoying little tic, unlike you!

    p.... ....

    @Iburnchurches Zappa said to Cavett:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoxaBSBItvU

  13. b.... ....

    Majestic.

  14. E.... P....

    Interesting song to say the least.