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The Social Wage

from Oh Shoot! by The Michael Character

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What’s the opposite of a Lobster Bucket?
I want to hold my friends up high
I want cooperation in the workplace
I want a trade union membership drive
Keep your politics of the vanguard
Don’t want to waste another minute of my life
Trying to salvage historical figures
Flex my library to justify taking lives

So tired at the end of the work day
I want to fall asleep at nine
But we gotta build a durable movement
To demand for all a dignified life
Ethnonationalists and their apologists
And their paranoid Cult of the Gun
Will bleed the institutions of the Social Wage
‘Til their militarism has won

In the Philippines in 1899 we learned that
Empire is a management strategy
Foreclosing all possibility of constructing a Just Society
(Just keep defense contractors hiring!)
Make the myopic many identify with the heroic nation personified
Boots tight on the necks of the global south
Made of sanctions or food aid or shrapnel now
So I care about healthcare costs
But our solutions go nowhere unless we are
Ending the fucking war in Yemen
Prioritizing refugee resettlement
Making sure Pittsburgh don’t feel like Bremen in goddamn 1937
The maintenance of preponderant power on a global scale
Political interference everywhere, everywhere
Denying malevolence from the seat of the Empire
And scaling Catastrophe up to The Entire
So I don’t have a spare word to waste on
Mayor Pete style Song-and-Dance-Nothing-Talk
And I don’t want to waste my time
With your concupiscent, flag-waving, delirious imperial pride

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from Oh Shoot!, released October 23, 2020

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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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