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Coffee and Alcohol
00:46
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I drink coffee man to speed it up
I drink alcohol to slow it down
I drink coffee then I rip it up
I drink liquor but it gets me down
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American Autocracy
01:06
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I’ll be the big bad wolf
You’ll be a little sheep (fit for me to fleece)
This ain’t a country it’s a buffet for a predator
I’m trying to get my chops in deep
I’ll be a plutocrat
You’ll be the golden goose (you’ll be the bought and sold)
It’s where I go when I want to buy a government
Never thought it’d be so cheap
Majority
Consisting of an underclass
Minority
rule dictated by the upperclass
Power kept
through disenfranchising the subaltern
It’s come before
But somehow there’s no lesson learned
This is rule by thieves
This is the gentrified state (a goddamn disgrace!)
Get on your knees and fellate the robber baron class
It’s American Sham-ocracy!
It’s American Kleptocracy!
It’s American Autocracy!
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3. |
Same Shit Different Day
00:50
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Nixon ran on a dog whistle
To win over southern states
Law and order were secret codes
Tying crime direct to race
Play on white anxieties
maintain deniability
Carter said he wouldn’t use the
Fed to integrate
Reagan blasted well-fare queens
“Young bucks want T-bone steaks”
Clinton passed the three strikes law
Bush had Willie Horton’s weekend pass
And every president
Has exploited racist politics
Do we want more?
Isn’t it time we found a better fucking choice?
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Lifers
01:58
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she has a tat that reads, "that which nourishes also destroys"
sometimes I think that I relate a bit too much
sometimes I wish the nights would stretch on like an interstate
sometimes the mornings get a little bit rough
she says it's harder to afford all of her habits on a waitress’ salary
and the last time we got off, she said I'm pretty sure we're lifers with this shit
5 finger discount on a bottle of Cabernet
she said I'm doing good but for a while I was in a real dark place
I lie awake some nights for hours like I don't have a bed
I think about all of the others and it screws with my head
first time I saw her, we were drinking from a hip flask doing 90 in the carpool lane
she says she likes the after-hours when the bar lights look like dust in the rain
and I'm afraid I must confess
I don't remember if we kissed
but if we didn't, well I sure as hell regret it
circus tricks and petty crimes
these pissant clubs, more dead alive
I fucked things up I guess a dozen times
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Jesus in Furs
00:25
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He’s back
He’s got a new haircut
High heeled boots
Pearl necklace
Communal wine goes great with pantyhose
He is risen in a mini-skirt
The drag queen king
He’s Mary Magdalene
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Juan detained at the border
trekking from El Salvador
12 years old and so afraid
his family did implore
“Juan get the fuck out of SS (San Salvador)”
His brother shot by gangs
they said “Mata, viola, controla”
so he rode on the top of a train
2000 miles to el rio
his body caked in dirt
he had half a loaf of pan but
he gave it to an eight year old girl
Picked up on the road to El Paso
Juan swallows down his fear
“you don’t have to go home but you can’t stay right here”
can we please find a way?
can we please find a way?
can we please find a way?
can we please find a way?
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I heard on the news today that waters are rising
I heard things’ll only get worse
If we could wrap both our hands round the necks of the other
We would til we’re dead in the dirt
I heard them say that we should respect the mother
Nice words for a commercial dick
I’m sure the money you make when you do concerts for Asia
Will help when that continent sinks
And I don’t think that we’re gonna pull out of this one
I don’t think that we’re gonna pull out of this one
ok
I saw the fascists on tv with their podiums
Don’t they know they’ll go down like the rest
I saw the teeming crowds cry for retribution
The kings they chose mostly undressed
With buckets I’d put water back in the ocean
but the holes in the ship are too big
Think I’ll go to my grave wishing for a forgiveness
I never would ask you to give
And I’m sorry you know that the world won’t get better
I’m sorry you know that the world won’t get better this time
We’ll strap ourselves in
in the back of our minds
Some will kick but
they’ll succumb in time
But hold the look in your eyes
When you’re young and alive
And by god I do hope you survive
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