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The Public's Business

by Defective Frequency

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1.
Hats off to Bobby 06:44
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I wanna write a protest song Bout puppet Trump and what's going on This darkest fucking timeline The border, Mueller the whistleblower But I'm just a rock singer and I gotta make a living here So the lyrics get watered down The royalties gotta stick around I'll bullshit that it's timelessness Going for that hippie earnestness But it's really so things don't get Awkward with my Wall Street set They fucked that up in Primal Scream Know what's Timeless? 2013 But no one spins it anymore We bought the lie like they did before Can't sing impeach all of them Too on-the-nose for Instagram The kids they won't keep steaming it Won't get that point 007 cents So hats off to you bobby man You were rock and roll's last stand So hats off to you bobby man Punk rock it came and then it went RIP voices of dissent RIP voices of dissent In Rock and Roll So hats off to you bobby man You were rock and roll's last stand So hats off to you bobby man Punk rock it came and then it went RIP voices of dissent RIP voices of dissent Getting Rich I Guess All my friends on the left Are getting bolder, have no fucks left To give yeah it's the one bright spot In this Twitter hellscape that we're caught But we know who hasn't yet Placed their chips and made their bets Old white man fucking rock and roll It's so sad and predictable Mark sang about the bathroom bill Said he'd come and play in Chapel Hill When they killed off that shitty law But Mark's off to Schloss Rettershof OK that's not really fair Mark seems like he really cares At least he sings about the shit Gun control and opiates I'm ss much to blame as anyone But all that's past yeah now I'm done My ultra PC Facebook friends Were right about it all in the end Sucks it took a kleptocracy To wake me up and make me see Got too soft and rich but then Not as rich as Ed Sheeren Yeah I know it took me a while To stand up and say they're all is vile But southern fans they vote GOP And they're the only ones who still buy CDs Fear eats the soul fear eats the head After all that's that's what Bobby said Speaking at peace conferences With Yanis Varoufakis
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I Was Right 03:58
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I was a teenage goth I was a teenage goth Eyeliner and blood stains Eyeliner and blood stains I was a teenage goth I was a teenage goth And I thought those demons were slain I thought those demons were slain But I was right Yeah I was right Life is pain Life is pain So I was right Yeah I was right Life is pain Life is pain
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Pasture Cropping Refrain 00:57
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So let it be not true That drink is the devil’s brew Cuz after more than twenty beers May come the best idea Let it all burn down Things they can rebound An idea there’s no stopping Like Colin’s pasture cropping
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Pasture Cropping Drink Song 07:43
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Back in seventy-nine is when we start our tale Just north of Gulgong, New South Wales Winona was the farm of the Seis Family And young Colin watched his father Harry Get suckered by something called “New Manure” But that shit the farm could not endure Grandpa Seis said "stick to old manure" He said “At least that shit is pure” The family debated their various viewpoints But It turned out to be a moot point Cuz first technology ran Winona down Then soon Winona burned to the ground They tried to rebuild, but the soil was dead Factory farming went and killed it But an idea formed in Colin’s head Through the years he worked soil and tilled it It’s too bad the farm burned down No way to rebound There’s no coming back From this setback It’s too bad it all burned down down But things can rebound There gotta be a coming back From this setback Nineteen ninety-three old man Seis is gone And Harry didn’t manage to hang on And since they passed into his hands Colin’s been trying to work their lands He feared Winona was gone for good So Colin did what any of us would New Manure had him over a barrel So Colin called his best friend Darryl Colin and Darryl downed twenty beers And Darryl helped Colin face his fears And in the pub that night they changed the world A revolutionary plan unfurled Time to rebound, the soil’s not dead Factory farming nearly killed it But an idea formed in Colin’s head Don’t plow soil never till it Oats and animals hand in hand Living on the same lands You can have more sheep grazing You can have more water holding Better nutrient cycling Better biodiversity Resilience under drought stress Better yet it costs way less Worldwide now half a million acres Colin the ground breaker Every acre two hundred tons Of Carbon Sequestration So let it be not true That drink is the devil’s brew Cuz after more than twenty beers May come the best idea Let it all burn down Things they can rebound An idea there’s no stopping Like Colin’s pasture cropping
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Space Force 04:04
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We're gonna go and build A Space Force We're gonna go and start A Space Force It's gonna be huge Our Space Force The very best people Are joining Space Force Elon's gonna help Build Space Force And Tim Apple's gonna pay For the Space Force Space Force Space Force Space Force Space Force Freakin' Space Force It'll be like The Dark Forest Except not Chinese Our Space Force The Mexicans will pay For Space Force Because they all need Space Force It's really serious Space Force No wagging the dog Space Force
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Monster 05:57
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Picture a sick man in New York in the seventies Deinstitutionalized now he’s on the street But unlike Lou Reed he has a foul proclivity Of making death threats to everyone he sees Call every death threat one pound of misery That the whole world now has to carry His problem is that he's constrained by technology On the number of death threats he can make daily People on the street might number eighty or ninety He can only scrawl out a few letters daily So while this sick man brings the world misery He cannot shift the balance completely We've created a monster It's swallowing the Earth Now picture this man in twenty nineteen With a laptop, a browser, and a fast ISP His quota of death threats now nears infinity And every one another pound of misery Millions of people can be hurt effortlessly By just this one man, unchanged from the seventies Let’s not forget that he can now meet Other sad sacks who think just like he In the old days he’d never happen to see Another like him, he had to act singly Now he can team up, kibbutz, and compete Working together they increase efficiency We've created a monster It's swallowing the Earth “Ah but” you say to me gently and sagely, "There an opposite accounting of this tragedy One of joy brought by others more saintly They too are now empowered and set free The internet brings us more of everything Good and the bad but it balances eventually” But one pound of joy and one of misery Are not balanced to zero when experienced equally So taught us Kahneman and Amos Tversky Infinite joy doesn’t negate equal agony Fear isn’t hot water that can be cooled with Icees It’s a poison take enough it’ll kill us eventually We’ve created a monster It’s swallowing the earth I helped create a monster I was at the birth We’ve created a monster We’ve created a monster It’s swallowing the earth
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Turtle Speaks With a Forked Tongue 03:10
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Down in the swamps of Kentucky Where the gators roam and ramble Comes a creature more creepy Crawled north from Alabama Turtle Speaks with a forked tongue Turtle Speaks with a forked tongue Turtle Speaks with a forked tongue Turtle Speaks with a forked tongue Made a deal with Lucifer His greed could not resist Thirty pieces of silver He'd fight those who persist Turtle Speaks with a forked tongue Turtle Speaks with a forked tongue Turtle Speaks with a forked tongue Turtle Speaks with a forked tongue
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Show Up 04:53
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Well it was early Saturday morning I was just getting out of bed The sun was shining bright and I was looking forward to a nice long Saturday of doing nothing But my wife came over and said: "Get up sleepyhead. We have to go to the protest today." And I didn't want to go to the protest It was too depressing to think about I didn't think it was gonna do any good I thought if I was gonna do something It should be something more Even though I didn't know what But my wife said: "Never mind all that. Sometimes you just gotta show up." You're pissed off and you wanna start a revolution And you're wondering how you can help get it done Well maybe there's nothing new under the sun Don't let your ego stop you helping someone Sometimes it's just about being a grunt Yeah just so long as we're all at the front We need more soldiers than we need generals Don't let the voices stop you helping someone Sometimes you just have to show up Sometimes you just have to show up Sometimes you just have to show up Sometimes you just have to show up Sometimes the choir means more than the voice And sometimes to help we make that choice We need more singers than we need soloists So lift up your voice sing of helping someone Sometimes you just have to show up Sometimes you just have to show up Sometimes you just have to show up Sometimes you just have to show up Sometimes it's all about showing up Sometimes it's all about showing up Sometimes you just have to show up Sometimes you just have to show up Sometimes you just have to show up Sometimes you just have to show up Now I know that we all wish that we could do something. About this shitshow. Something that makes a difference. We wish that we had some real power. And hey. Maybe you will think of something new. Something amazing. But in the meantime, we still have to show up.

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released December 9, 2019

Words and Music by Rick Webb
Mixed by Joshua Carney

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