All Flags Are Black When The Lights Go Out

1 day ago by @luxury

All Flags Are Black When The Lights Go Out

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Liner Notes

I like to mix up the genres but I wanted to double dip on #punk bc it's fun 😄

Should mention, the sampled piece is Wade in the Water as recorded by Sunset Four Jubilee Singers in 1925:

Lyrics

No one loves merit like the meritless
America's parrots shopping for whatever narrative
Makes it imperative to take out all the trash
Then you're asking where's the art, where's the soul
(While your boot's on its throat)
Break your part, change your role
(Or live your whole life by rote)
Where'd you start? What's the goal?
(The top deck doesn't float)
Having heart takes a toll
(& we're all in the same boat)

Maximize shareholder return on medication
Maximize shareholder return on fighter jets
Maximize shareholder return on transportation
Maximize shareholder return on the internet
& if you start to doubt, turn on telecommunications
They'll remind you what you think
Do you feel reassured because the people all around you
Insist that we've retreated from the brink?
& if you don't agree cause you know better than me, roll up your sleeves
Tell me I'm wrong in a song as good as this one

Wade in the water
Wade in the water, children
Wade in the water
God's gonna trouble the water

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