COunter INTELigence PROgram

Verse 1

File on every soul in the Haight

Dad looked me straight through the night

Every name and every face they knew

They kept the ledger black and blue

Pre-Chorus

Agitators slipped into the crowd

Whispering where we stood too loud

Gathered a following and they'd fall

They were watching counting us all

Chorus

No Such Agency in the sky

They file the signals passing by

Under new names they always rise

COINTELPRO behind the eyes

Watch the rock star burn the stage

They took him out at the acid age

Post-Chorus

EVERYONE

EVERYONE they knew

Verse 2

Chief of McNamara turned the key

Pentagon held the memory

Followed anyone who made a name

Easy prey on a wicker frame

Pre-Chorus

Good drugs waiting by the door

Wolves dressed up like troubadours

Power growing up too fast

Threat they couldn't let it last

Chorus

No Such Agency in the sky

They file the signals passing by

Under new names they always rise

COINTELPRO behind the eyes

Watch the rock star burn the stage

They took him out at the acid age

Guitar Solo

Bridge

Declassified in the dust

Words a dying father trusts

Counter intel sang its song

Records every shake of the tongue

Chorus

No Such Agency in the sky

They file the signals passing by

Under new names they always rise

COINTELPRO behind the eyes

Watch the rock star burn the stage

They took him out at the acid age

Post-Chorus

EVERYONE

EVERYONE they knew