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King Snowflake
03:13
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You never fell for anyone
No one could tell you not to stare into the sun
Suiting up and crashing in
You newest dawn set to begin
Just like a hundred other ones
You never fell for anyone
But now they tell you suckers walk, it’s time to run
The way seems clear up ahead
Obscured by horned figureheads
Bow to King Snowflake in the sun
His melting eyes looks like god to everyone
Bow to King Snowflake and you’ll learn
That you never bow down when your back is turned
You only have to wait around
To find your heroes are no different than clowns
Greatness seemingly unique
Tumbling from cars with 20 other freaks
Bow to King Snowflake in the sun
His melting eyes looks like god to everyone
Bow to King Snowflake and you’ll learn
That you never bow down when your back is turned
You never fall for anyone
A lie’s rebirth is begun
Bow to King Snowflake in the sun
His melting eyes looks like god to everyone
Bow to King Snowflake and you’ll learn
That you never bow down when your back is turned
You should never bow down when your back is turned
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Pig Dog Rooster Monkey
01:13
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Feeling slick but looking gunky
Red and Gold, cushy, clunnky
Karaoke trying to be funky
Fake ID acting drunky
Chinatown Green tea junky
Month old doggy bag in the trunky
Big hair with suburban hunky
Number five grade school flunky
Twice divorced feeling spunky
Spare changing trust fund punky
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When this began I was talking with my dad
About the ways we thought it maybe could go
I reminisced about when I was a kid
And the morbid thoughts I couldn’t control
A drama queen who thought he’d end up on the list
And be waiting for a knock on the door
Never suspected I’d be lining up for bread
Like a Muscovite in 1924
Hard to believe we’ve been cooped up for a year
But the calendar and time never lie
It seems so normal now and that’s the thing
That’s gonna make me wanna break down and cry
But wait, there’s more, seems every single day
Brings us news we know we’d rather never hear
And so I’m back to those murky daydreams
And my rote authoritarian fears
A bullet in the back of the neck
In the basement of the Lubyanka
A bullet in the back of the neck
In the basement of the Lubyanka
“Lavrenty what became of us
And all our expectations?
Through long nights
Deep chills frights
All alone”
It’s fair to say I’ve read a lot of Bulgakov
And Solzhenitsyn, Pilnyak, and Trotsky
But it didn’t take a scholar on the 6th
To see how perilously close we may be
Now it’s tempting to declare we’re moving on
We were lucky that they’re so inept
But we all saw it and the fools don’t know
We’re just a couple little lazy baby steps from
A bullet in the back of the neck
In the basement of the Lubyanka
A bullet in the back of the neck
In the basement of the Lubyanka
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Hot Cha Pho
01:17
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La Revo Niaga
00:25
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It’s not research
You’re staring in the mirror
F.E.A.R. Is a drug
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What do you think this is, anyway?
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Jigamathing
00:44
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Unamerican
00:56
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Are you now or have you ever been a member of the communist party of *any* country?
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Brett Kavenaugh likes beer
He loves it so much that he just can’t stand it
Raise the roof, cuz he’s failing up
Raise the roof, yes, he’s failing up
Raise the roof, how high can he go?
Raise the roof
Motherfucker’s failing up
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Aaron Tap Los Angeles, California
Aaron Tap is terrible at branding. So he releases shit from both his current band Frank Shirts and, lately, the resurrected
Boston trio Betty Goo, and maybe someday even a solo record. There are themes, yeah, but mostly it's whatever spirit moves the music that decides what name it goes by.
Aaron also plays and sings with Matt Nathanson, the Paula Kelley Orchestra, and Populuxe.
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