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Fuckheads of the world unite;
Defend your credibility ‘till you feel Alt-Right
Tell me more about your Freedom
How it’s leaving
Now you’re seething, yea…
You want to have the right to be an asshole
Without the repercussions that accompany the trash you talk
But I’m not here to validate you.
Complain about the Snowflakes
Like a person pointing out a problem makes life hard for you
So plug your ears when a queer kid talks
Tell me again how it’s good Arpaio got let off…
…Are you kidding?
Was that a funny?
If I want to see a fucking racist I’ll just look at the MONEY
We don’t have time for you.

Oh we hate the government, they’re a burden
Except for the instruments of coercion!
You’ve got to love that Thin Blue Line
Between the savage and the civilized.
Imprison the former; you’ll enrich the latter
Baptize your kids in the black blood you splatter
Nixonian Law & Order
Fill the prisons and close the border.

I’ve got a bone to pick with folks who don’t see eye to eye
With other people who they’re told they’re not supposed to like
A shit conception of your problems that pins all the blame
On simple, honest folks who try to make the world humane.
It’s not a violation of your rights for someone else
To make historically denied space open for themselves
It’s not undemocratic to let your community
Determine the parameters of socially accepted speech.
The violence in our politics relies on historical fictions to validate it—
If you think we should tolerate
White nationalists in our public space
You probably think the Civil War was fought primarily over the rights of states…
…And you’d be wrong.

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from That's Why They Call Him Zachy!, released September 27, 2018

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It's political music, whatever. Based in Boston, MA. Absolutely willing to drive very far to play for you and five of your vaguely alternative friends in your combination kitchen/laundry room. Hit me up. I'm fully serious.

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