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Cuckoo for Cocoa Pops
03:19
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This is the story of Mr. Jones
The lights are on but there's nobody home
Not the sharpest tool in the shed
Not over bright but overfed
The wheel is spinning but the monster is dead
This is the story of Queen Margarine
She's so mean, she's so green
We're all demeaned
The lasers play on the QAnon fold
The police who watch that the soup is cold
The wheel is spinning but the monster is sold
Have I said the quiet part out loud
I'm living in the land of the cuckoo cloud
Cuckoo for Cocoa Pops
This is the story of Ayn Rand Paul
He was a dentist til he heard the call
Of the right wing loonies on the Senate floor
A transfer to the rich from the poor
The wheel is spinning but the monster's no more
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2. |
Release the Kraken
03:59
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The USA is God forsaken
Waiting to awaken. How?
It's bones severely shaken
Release the Kraken now
All the votes that you have taken
It's beyond our ken. How?
You have not brought home the bacon
Release the Kraken now
Take good care not to awaken
The creature from the deep
Who sows the squall shall reap the whirlwind
Let the monster sleep
Sixteen lawyers at the pleading
They've forsaken all their vows
Lie so hard their brains are bleeding
Release the Kraken now
One point three billion dollars
Law suit going cheap
Don't stir up the legal scholars
Let the monster sleep
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3. |
Grigori Rasputin
03:24
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Oh my, Grigori Rasputin
Someone ought to shoot him
And wait to see him die
Oh my, Grigori Rasputin
They're gonna put the boot in
Gonna see him die
He has just brought shame to Russia
History repeats
Russian cakes are filled with poison
Careful what you eat
Ras... Ras... Rasputin
'War and Peace' and Dostoyevsky's
'Punishment and Crime'
Have given us a moral framework
Damn the paradigm!
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4. |
Be the Rising Star
03:40
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We feel that we are
Helpless against
The dark Death Star
It's only phoney
Designed to provoke
Mirrors and smoke
We see the forces of evil
More than they are
Don't be afraid of the darkness
Be the Rising Star
We feel that we are
Handcuffed anf blindfolded
Feathered and tarred
Thrown into the dark night
No one will answer
No one's to blame
Don't mess with the Medusa
Nor the Gorgon Tsar
Don't be afraid of the darkness
Be the Rising Star
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5. |
Days of Wine
03:57
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When we were young
We drank wine
We drank to everything
And every time
We look back we see
With utmost clarity
The rising wine-dark sea
Days of wine
Hear now these words
Carved in stone
Sunk in our flesh
Like holy bones
When will we return
To the vessels that we burn
When will we ever learn
Days of wine
Take a trip to Paradise
Tell yourself it's very nice
Days of moonshine
Daze of wine
We've come to share
Our design
We've come to crucify
The god of wine
Did you hear his call?
Howling at us all
The wine god's at the walls
Days of wine
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Instrumental
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In his eyes you will find
A kingdom of the blind
From his tongue
The tale is never told
And in his whole damn frame
There's no signs of a soul
The Jackal Priest is
On the streets tonight
Out of your sight
Waiting for a bite
The things I know
About the Kenneth Copeland Show
The things I know
And the things I cannot show
In his eyes you will find
The reverse of the sign
In his silent heart, so cold
And in his skin and bones
No signs of a soul
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8. |
Fahrenheit 451
04:03
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Fire! from the mouth of a gun
The ending has just begun
Fahrenheit 451
Inferno that's second to none
Is this dystopia?
Have we reached Utopia?
Science and knowledge have gone
We take the orders that come from on high
Ours not to reason but do, dare or die
Burn! Burning books is a lot of fun
At Fahrenheit 451
Fire! Now don't look so glum
The New World Order's begun
Fire! A flame from the sun
And all that persists will be gone
Is this dystopia?
Or merely myopia?
Maybe the smoke in my eyes
We take instructions
That come from somewhere
Ours not to reason but do, die or dare
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Man-Belong-Mrs. Queen
05:10
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Somewhere in the South Seas
My island of dreams
Pearl dive, fathom five
Islands in the stream
Lost tribe are found alive
By men of the Marine
Black sands in the moonlight
The cargo cult was here
At the dance of the gumboot
The spirit will appear
Come join in the chorus
The song we want to hear
Pig man from our island
He sailed away o'er the sea
He met Princess Elizabeth
And now they are married
Pig man is a big man
He's not what he may seem
He wed Princess Elizabeth
Our man belong the queen
Some where in the cold lands
Behind a wall of mist
He stands, our shaman
Not far from Aberdeen
Shoot grouse, in gin you'll souse
Our man belong the queen
Here by the volcano
The memory he holds dear
Of the dance and the feasting
And the most mystical beer
Pig man is a husband
He sailed across the sea
He met Princess Elizabeth
And now they are happy
Pig man is a shaman
He's not what he may seem
He wed Princess Elizabeth
Our man belong the queen
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10. |
Ozymandias
03:19
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Ozymandias
Stands all alone
Years of swirling desert sands
Have worn away his throne
Bleached out his bones
Turned him into stone
Turned him to stone
Ozymandias
Was the king of kings
Desert storms have come and gone
And worn away his skin
See what fortune brings
He had every thing
He had every thing
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