Peoples Politics

from Disasters in the Sun by Michael McGuire

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You cast your vote like there’s nothing you don’t know, Don’t even know where you’ve been but you sure know how to tell me where to go, Complicit cancer of manipulation, The most recent polls verify capitulation, It makes me laugh till I have tears in my eyes, The way you oil your throat to swallow those lies, Some devil on the radio sounds like the voice of god, The same way Eden was lost to the land of Nod.

It’s serious business when we close those curtains to cast our vote, But in your case it’s more like not getting the joke, “We the people” yeah I carry my shame, original sin; I guess we’ll have to plagiarize the blame, Money don’t grow on trees but campaign donors do, But with your fetish for elephants you seem to like it when they fuck you, Instead of a heart transplant you get a blood transfusion, Instead of curing your amnesia you memorize your confusion.

You don’t have to be that dumb to be just dumb enough, More of a patsy than a victim when you fall prey to this bluff, A real critic of everything that you don’t quite understand, Another dutiful dupe of love it or leave it land, In the holy name of self righteousness; well you can't be wrong, But you don’t even pay enough attention to recognize yourself in this song, Here’s an unmixed-metaphor about the state of the nation, Truth has as many faces as there are people but freedom is not open to interpretation.

I had a dream that I was nailed to a T-bone steak, At fund-raising dinner that cost a thousand dollars a plate, By these creatures who carried their brains around in a bucket, If they got kicked over on the floor all they would say is “fuck it”, They asked where was my bucket and who I was voting for, I pointed to my head then said “not your man that’s for sure”, They were furious and they all started buzzing like a hive, I swear if I hadn’t of woke up I believe they would have eaten me alive.

Sept. 08

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from Disasters in the Sun, released March 20, 2009

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