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Papers Please (Still No Better)

by Dropping Like Flies

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A song written and recorded during Lockdown 2020. Only instruments are Ukelele and Bass. It's a song about living through the advent of modern, velvet-glove authoritarian fascism

lyrics

Chorus
Better days than these, there will be better days than these
When the world stops living on it’s knees
There’ll be better days than these

I see no other way, everything looks bleak
Like a glimpse back at Germany, ‘33
It’s black and it’s white and it’s left versus right
And all the people start suffering as the jack boots are shuffling.
Along comes a man with a poison idea and he’s
Famed proclaimed and much revered
He hammered home the wedges and he hammered in the nails
Grew fat off the back of the culture that he failed
Chorus
So its left wing or right wing pick your line
They both lead over the same sharp decline
The circle never closes as we culturally implode
And all the people keep suffering as the fascists drive the wedges in
Along comes a person with their own ideas and they’re
Shamed, defamed and disappeared.
With an easy grin and a piano wire
If the people only knew, they’d set all this on fire
Chorus
Middle 8
There’s a poison in the well that is feeding us all, an anthropomorphic egg of culture is about to topple off his precipice. We’re all being lied to; led to; taken down a road against our nature, pulled away from the love the love in our hearts, but in your heart you know when you’re being fooled and that you’re not really tied down by the ropes that they say bind you, you're just not used to the fear they use to blind you. We’re so confused what the fuck is afoot? We’re at the end of the story and never even opened up the book. No better? No, it’s just getting worse, we kept staring blankly at our screens as humanity got put in reverse. 2nd Verse and it’s still no better we gave away all we had so we could try to get a way to get ahead, never satisfied, because all we ever knew was a poisonous lie. It’s so easy to control when you control the message, so you went ahead and made a mess of this glorious age. You hammered home the wedges meant to keep us apart, but you’ll never make me hate because there’s love in my heart.
Love everything you meet because we’re all one thing
If there’s love in your heart, come on and let it sing.
We’ll never be better while we’re fast asleep, so as one
Let’s stand up on our feet
Chorus
A silent coup and a jab 1-2
Here’s a badge for your shirt, a proclamation of your worth (to state)
I watched passive what they did to me, as they took away my liberty,
And now we’ll never stop suffering, the velvet fist is tightening
I watched the end game unfold, with my back up against the wall
And my finger on my king, because I knew I could never win,
And as my throat embraces the piano wire I think “I hope the children learn, and set all this on fire”
Chorus

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released March 19, 2021
Music/Lyrics: Cullen
Ukelele/Vocal: Cullen
Bass/Vocal: Bruzas

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