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i sit in the lobby
have had too many drinks
i lean into the pain
and think all the dark things
it's been a shitshow so far
the end has not even started
i already feel broken hearted
and complain about the menue
broken earth plays the piano (and sings)
it's been a shitshow so far
and the fuckers in power
booh her down from their ivory tower
i can hear her warped howl
soon she's gonna throw in the towel
it's been a shitshow so far
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hanging out online my apathetic scrolling through
meaningless pages uses up CO2
when i could also go out and plant some trees
seems i've got them all wrong, my priorities
but then every now and then a video pops up
and it uses CO2
only to show me happy people in a canoo
and sexy smiling surfboarders
advertising
the sneaker you can wear underwater
the sneaker you can wear underwater
and then i am supposed to give a damn
about this fantastic new capitalist scam
i'm not even an outdoorsy person but honestly
making or buying these shoes should be no one's priority
and imagine the resources, the time and energy
put into the marketing division advertising it to me
and into this water repellent material
that makes my rubber boots feel inferior
yeah every now and then a video pops up
and it uses CO2
only to show me happy people in a canoo
and sexy smiling surfboarders
advertising
the sneaker you can wear underwater
the sneaker you can wear underwater
that might be the worst of capitalism's achievements
getting the smart scientists to actually believe that
that product is needed and that their hustle
is a vital piece of the economic puzzle
it's bullshit!
nobody needs a sneaker you can wear underwater
you just go fucking barefoot into the water,
like we've done for a million years
and focus and the real problems on this planet
cause there are enough of them
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now that's a good car for the zombie apocalypse
but there is no zombie apocalypse
and until there is a zombie apocalypse
you won't find a parking spot
you can't get your dick up, so you bought a pick up
got a small pee pee so you bought an SUV
no juice in your weenie, you bought a lamborghini
but all those cars in your garage just won't work your mojo
so they're goin on that cruise ship, and they say goddammit
that's the way we wanna spend our vacation
that's the way we planned it
seems to me they're taking it all for granted
but we only have this one planet
and i don't wanna move to mars, up there it's so hard to breathe
might even be the first spaceman to catch a disease
up there on the spaceship, a disease unbeknownst to man
that's because it's alien
now there's a power ranger for every color of the rainbow
i guess that's a bit off topic, but it's important that you know
that even though the power rangers are using heavy machinery
you can be any power ranger that you wanna be
you can be any power ranger that you wanna be
you can be any power ranger that you wanna be
you can be any power ranger that you wanna be
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Left-Wing Batman
02:39
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I WANNA LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE THERE'S A LEFT WING BATMAN
and he would fight crime in his unbeatable way
throwing batarangs at villains all night and day
but the villain wouldn't be the scarecrow
no, the villain would be tabloid newspapers that try to prevent you to know what the fuck is going on
I WANNA LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE THERE'S A LEFT WING BATMAN
but the villain wouldn't be the riddler
no, the villain would be an idiot US president that overuses twitter
to spray his hate/shit around
I WANNA LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE THERE'S A LEFT WING BATMAN
but the villain wouldn't be the joker
no the villain would be rich ass arms dealers playing cynical poker game with human lives
I WANNA LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE THERE'S A LEFT WING BATMAN
but the villain wouldn't be mr. freeze
no, the villain would be pharmaceutical companies celebrating a vicious disease because it saves their jobs
I WANNA LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE THERE'S A LEFT WING BATMAN
but the villain wouldn't be poison ivy
no, the villain would be every snobby costumer to arrogant to ask nicely for a second cup of coffee
throw that batarang, man
that guy don't seem to understand
that that waitress has got it just as hard as he does
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and before all this was antifolk
and before all that was punk
and before all that protopunk
and a whole bunch of music that stunk
politically you might call it insubordination
personally and more fittingly its self liberation
and all it takes is, all it takes is, all it takes is this:
just a little brain (kept in a state short of insane)
a little fingers (choking the self doubt that constantly lingers)
and a little heart
and all the kids out there playing the air guitar solos
just look fucking cool
whether nobody sees them or a whole bunch of strangers
they free themselves of the ridicule
it's an easy way to become unharassable
because the material is accessible
it doesn't have to be jazz chords
and fancy metaphors
and you don't have to sit down and learn the hard bit
when it's not pretentious art shit
and all it takes is, all it takes is, all it takes is this:
just a little brain (kept in a state short of insane)
a little fingers (choking the self doubt that constantly lingers)
a little heart
now that's a start
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To Blow Up A Whale
01:53
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when that dead whale washed ashore down in oregon
they decided to bring dynamite, and brought half a ton
man, i can tell you the conclusion was foregone
when that dead whale washed ashore down in oregon
they thought, hey if we just use enough dynamite
it will blow that big animal out of our sight
and that particular strategic move on that beach
is now on youtube, to learn from and teach
that it's not a good idea to blow up a whale
man, that train of thought is pretty much derailed
there are always ways to handle things but if you don't know'em
the worst thing you can do is trigger an explosion
and it rained dead whale, blubber and organs
when they blew up that whale at the beach down in oregon
literal rain of blood, man, it was bizarre
one big chunk of mammal smashed into a parked car
because it's not a good idea to blow up a whale
man, that train of thought is pretty much derailed
there are always ways to handle things but if you don't know'em
the worst thing you can do is trigger an explosion
and that's a fucking rule of life
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The Black Elephant Band Nuremberg, Germany
„[...] ungeschliffene, gestochen scharf auf den Punkt kommende, englischsprachige
Songminitaturen voll von schrägem Humor
und bitterbösen Weltbetrachtungen, die schlecht
gestimmte Gitarre schnörkellos rudimentär, die Stimme ein wütendes Knurren, kaum ein Lied
länger als zweieinhalb Minuten. Wunderbar!“ (NN)
"Schräger Antifolk mit Bart, Klampfe und Mundharmonika. Zum Verlieben!" (A&F)
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