Well, with all the end of year’s lists, retrospectives, the requisite long list quickie obituaries of people lost in 2021, which, if it were an honest list and not just the usual of passed celebrities, as if they are the only ones worth noting, would be way too massive an endeavor and just point out our failings, five reasons we won’t miss 2021, five reasons 2021 gives us hope in 2022 (yeah, that one’s a non-starter) the top ten’s, low ten’s, seven things just outside the norm or maybe turn it up eleven’s or even thirteen’s to tempt fate with a ‘fresh’ numbers take on the year end staid that has no ‘fresh’ take … ever … I thought well, maybe, I’ll jump on the staid bandwagon and go with my own year end take ’cause I got nothin’ right now.
Ok, sorry, not quite nothing, I did start something earlier about being at the Dollar General in Wappingers Falls to buy candles and vitamins and duct tape (yes, my main intent and no, I’m not planning anything weirdly creepy, though it might come out nicely in a film) when I noticed at the last second an older, slow moving seeming tired woman whose winter hat was winter huddled down just a little too close to her eyes below her eyebrows, a one whose cart looked the only thing holding her up as she rolled up behind me on line with only a few items.
Now, could I have pulled my stuff from the belt before it started getting rang? Yes. But I already had the candles and the duct tape down with the vitamins on the way and of course, all the “yeah I could use that too” impulse buys that can happen at a place like Dollar General, things you didn’t realize you needed until just then but might work well in a movie as props (not a “Dollar Store” mind you, think a mini-Walmart with better prices and less interesting internet pics).
I was also being lazy and selfish and I just wanted to be done for the day after an early let go from work but, in my head, as my candles and vitamins and duct tape and “yeah I could use that too” Dollar General impulse buys were being rung in front of this tired looking woman I kicked myself for being an asshole.
“There’s an old bent over a cart tired looking woman with a too huddled eyebrow hat who you could have let go in line before you, you asshole. And I think you even parked your car next to her year’s lined husband in the parking lot who looks like he could just really use, might even be, taking a nap”.
Then my debit card didn’t work, again, came up declined though there is plenty there in the account to cover candles and vitamins and duct tape and possible weirdly creepy things (the movie teaser will be out next week) and “yeah I could use that too” impulse buys, a debit card that has been quite a dick lately, its chip not being all that chippy.
“Motherfu …” but I held myself back from my usual fave expletive, thinking of this older, slow moving woman, and of my mother who would admonish such language but only with better language of her own, this older woman who stepped behind me being held up by a cart when she came to save me and my thoughts of being an asshole.
“I’m sorry Ma’am, I almost had a bit of a curse there … this card has been a pain lately”
She looked up from under her tired eyebrow huddled hat, but with sudden unexpected young bright eyes and I was taken aback, wide bright lively crystal blue eyes and said “Oh, curse away, I enjoy that”
“Really?”
“Of course, there are some things I could motherfuck about right about now too … but don’t get me started or we’ll be here all day”
As I made my way to the lot and put my things into BB’s (my car) hatch she slowly followed with the cart holding her and her few things up and in and put them into a car with her husband, who, yes I had parked next to, woke now, starting the engine.
“Happy New Year” I said
“The same (with those bright alive blue eyes) to you and your family”
Man, If only my own eyes can be that unexpectedly bright and alive and want to motherfuck things when I get to the tired.
But I didn’t write about that ’cause, like I said, I got nothin’.
No, I’ve done this before, put some of my parody tunes into one post to call them Albums or EP’s, with names, though I shouldn’t give them names while imagining myself an artist or band with titles for Albums or EP’s after not having really created anything like artists and bands do. They’re someone else’s tunes, instrumentals in this case, just with new words (Ok, maybe I’ll give myself a little artistic credit there on the new words) and some singing that could, at best, be considered suspect. I’m not really allowed to give them names.
So a year end compilation in one post of some of my tunes and when I posted them from 2021 it is, but since I’m not really an artist or a band, like I said, who have a right to name things, I’ll just call this album “Bob” … Ok, yes, technically, I just named it but you get my point.
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To the 80’s classic “Crash” from the Primitives
April 24
Crush
Here we go, fucking fast
Must pass laws we hope’ll la-ast
Cause we know, in blatant show-ow
We can’t win with a vote’s honest go
So Stop, stop the polls
Shut some doors maybe clear the rolls
Make it rough, so no close ca-alls
We wanna make sure of a doubts no go
So restrictions where there weren’t none
Enact new rules replace old ones
That worked just fine when it was we won
But when we didn’t there was clearly something wrong
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Na na na na na na na na na
(we gotta crush the vote)
Na na na na na na na na na
(we gotta crush the hope)
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Here they go, fucking fast
Chau-vin a martyr white bias cast
Say Maxine shut your mou-outh
Your words are a fire that’ll burn the town
But Trump words, were benign-nn
Hugs and kisses it was just sublime
It was really nothing be concerned
Only five dead and the cap riot didn’t earn
What libs will have us learn
No that was just a patriots turn
But now the Tuckers and the pundits churn
Will have believe verdicts real concern was burn
Chauvin’s martyr turn
Excuse for justice served
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Na na na na na na na na na
(gonna crush the vote)
Na na na na na na na na na
(gonna crush the hope)
Na na na na na na na na na
(ignorance it is the show)
Na na na na na na na na na
(white nationals refuse the blow)
Na na na na na na na na na
(gonna crush the vote)
Na na na na na na na na na
(gonna crush the hope)
Na na na na na na na na na
(ignorance it is the show)
Mmmm hmmm
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And there was a Capital riot.
To Stevie’s “I Wish”.
February 12
Dark Days (They Wish)
Looking back on lost years and an orange headed lyin’ boy
Whose one and only con-cern was power and just how earn from ploy
We watched and listened sadly, the starkness of the thing
That had support too many, discipled GOP
—
Truth went out the window, propaganda became the truth de jour
Echoed many sides now, podiums to pundits even went on tour
The press tried too late stem tide, point out all the lies
But they opened up that window, just tryin’ now save hides
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They were dark days … you’d … think we’d want no more
Some truly sad … days … attack norms at the core
But some still want … those … days to darken doors
Now hold seditious dreams, yeah, they hold a torch
They hold a torch
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The time came to be counted, a real count not a one that aimed at steal
Enough of us did stand up, a threat was posed and seen saw to be real
But even then some hundred plus signed on to a deal
To stand with former power mad with fraud as the new spiel
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That led to insurrection, encouraged violence for a new rule
With help also from inside who even took some to tour of new school
Useful idi-ots follow dumb as useful tools
The Gaetz, Hawley’s, McCarthy’s fools who know the fools
—
They were dark days … you’d … think they’d want no more
Some truly sad … days … attack norms at the core
But some still want … those … days to darken doors
Now hold seditions dreams, yeah they hold a torch
They hold a torch
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Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doodah doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
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Trump: “Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election”
“Big protest in DC on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!”
Olivia Troye: “very concerned that there will be violence on January 6th because the president himself encourages it.”
Ted “Bad Beard Breath” Cruz: “We will not go quietly into the night. We will defend liberty. And we are going to win.”
Trump and Jr.: “fight like hell.”
Jr.: “We need to fight.”
Trump: “They’re not taking this White House. We’re going to fight like hell.”
“… and we fight, we fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”
Giuliani: “Let’s have trial by combat´
Mo “Box of Rocks” Brooks: “… Today is the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass.”
Trump: “American Patriots,”
“… We love you, you’re very special.”
Trump: “These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!”
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A little voter suppression thing.
To Adam Ant “Goody Two Shoes”.
May 8
Goody Goody Crow Rules
Gov Kemp grabbed a big pen
To support the Big Lie
Election integrity, integrity
Ignore that GA’s was fine now
–
Was su-posed gold standard
For others to try
Try and live up to, up to
It was even a point of pride now
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Ya can’t choose, we choose, voting rights you lose
Ya can’t choose, we choose,
Suppression wins you lose
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Make vo-ting harder, what will you do
A tougher vote, we say, what will you do
None too subtle the game they play
Jim Crow says hey y’all by the way
–
Say thanks to Joe Manchin
Repubs inside joke
Won’t let us bust the fili fili
Bi-part will surely take note take note
–
As everyone laughs at
His naïve to extreme
The Pollyanna world he loves hope
Is in a partisan long boat
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Ya can’t choose, we choose, voting rights you lose
Ya can’t choose, we choose,
Suppression wins you lose
–
Make voting harder, what will you do
A tougher vote, we say, what will you do
None too subtle the game they play
Jim Crow says howdy by the way
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GOP knows too well now
There ain’t no fair fight
Straight up they lose every time now
People vote they will always eat crow
–
They’ll try to sell you
A bill of false goods
About getting back to honest, honest
But based on a cult’s lies big lie
–
Now this ain’t no token
They’ll take the deride
Knowing full well, too well now
The orange is on their right side
–
Make voting harder, what will you do
A tougher vote, we say, what will you do
None too subtle the game they play
Jim Crow says howdy by the way
–
Make vo-ting harder, what will you do
Cuttin’ back Sundays what will you do
None too subtle the game they play
Jim Crow says hey y’all by the way
–
Make voting harder, what will you do
Lose drop boxes, what will you do
None too subtle the game they play
Jim Crow says howdy by the way
–
Make voting harder, what will you do
A tougher vote, we say, what will you do
None too subtle the game they play
Jim Crow says howdy by the way
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This one is for all those that have decided, in their finite white wisdom, to start banning books and worse.
To the The Dixie Cups “Going To The Chapel”.
December 4
Goin’ to the School Board
Goin’ to the school board
And we’re gonna get carried away
With banning books now that aren’t
In a real right straight white safe way
Gee we’ve got some issues with works
That don’t teach imagined virtues of a
Re-visioned whitewashing day
—
GOP’s here
To set message clear
Ignorance sings
Of white patriot things
—
This country was found
On exceptional ground
And we’ll never teach real truth anymore
—
Because we’re
Goin’ to the school board
And we’re gonna get carried away
Might throw books on a pyre now
And dance ‘round with a hey hidey hey how
—
Gee you don’t need a degree
From any liberal leftist factory
Goin’ to create history
—
Whistles will blow
And dogs will crow
We’ll set it right
No CRT will be in sight
We’ll ignore slavery
Even though it’s part of the core
And strike systemic from vocabulary’s lore
—
Because we’re
Goin’ to the school board
And we’re gonna get carried away
Snowflake about the sensibilities
Of our children’s tender feelings
Gee we don’t know the problem
Of new curriculum’s whitey outcome
—
Goin’ to the school board of dumb
(yeah-a-yeah-a-yeahy-yeah)
—
Goin’ to the school board of dumb
(yeah-yeah-yeah-yeahy-yeah)
—
Just mind your place and we’ll all get along
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Have instrumental and new lyrics will travel for a tune about Democracy being under attack.
To Green Day’s “Troublemaker” … time to rock a bit.
November 20
Kingmaker
Yeah!
Woo hoo hoo
—
Hey!
Democracy’s under attack
Right in plain sight a lockstep right
Work their authoritarian plight
—
Hey!
They wanna control the states
So next time vote around they’ll mess ‘bove ground
Mold sham results for self-serving tastes
—
They wanna be some new Kingmakers
Autocracy’s G-O-P takers
They wanna be some new Kingmakers
Great leader’s cult first of new shakers
—
Hey!
We like your lie moxie cool
Obstructive whitewash of what was true
It’s quite impressive in its attempt at coup
—
Hey!
His Rally’s his palace days
He’s sounding loaded, old lie bloated
In his propagandist playbook word salad way
—
They wanna be some new Kingmakers
Autocracy’s G-O-P takers
They wanna be some new Kingmakers
Great leader’s cult first of new shakers
—
Hey!
Woooh oooh oooh
Woooh oooh oooh
Woooh oooh oooh
Yeah!
—
They saw election pass with result a bad state
So pass suppression laws before it’s too late
Present these measures in a group all for one haste
Integrity’s at stake the big lie is the play that they make
—
Hey!
Democracy’s under attack
Right in plain sight a lockstep right
Work their authoritarian plight
—
Hey!
They do their do
Hey!
A lie’s whose who
Hey!
Who know the screw
Hey!
A fascist stew
Hey!
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Hey, I remember this song.
To OMC and “How Bizarre”.
August 21
How Repub (song)
Big lie it shotgun rides, McCarthy at the wheel
Headin’ Mar-A-Lago to commiz about steal
A new plan it was hatched then, right after riot’s zeal
After kneel ring kiss the two saw how this should go
Campaign of vote suppression with a spankin’ new cash flow
McCarthy genuflects then says we’ll work on Fili-Joe
—
How Repub
How Repub
How Repub
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They stay course mis-inform’, more openly than before
First voting then vaccines now, workin’ at death’s door
Of democracy and lives now, Elephant’s they know the score
How to politic both with a loud crazed cultish roar
—
How Repub
How Repub
How Repub
—
Ooh, baby (Ooh, baby)
Democracy’s lazy (It’s future now hazy)
Every time I just look down
There’s a new lie to be found (Every time I just look down)
Every time from underground
Lies are bubblin’ up
—
Ring master he directs, says make Donkeys have regrets
For not buying into Country’s patriotic cultish sect
We’re showing you white way now, yet ya still deflect
The truth of where road’s going to where we’ll intersect
At Ignorance Way and Main Street with a future surely set
You’ll be minority major
Too slow now to react
Where chance was had to save from dark political intellect
And you’ll learn now how to,
Hey,
To genuflect
—
How Repub
How Repub
How Repub
—
Ooh, baby (Ooh, baby)
Democracy’s lazy (It’s future now hazy)
Every time I just look down
There’s a new lie to be found (Every time I just look down)
Every time from underground
Lies are bubblin’ up
They’re bubblin’ up
—
Ooh, baby (Ooh, baby)
Democracy’s lazy (It’s future now hazy)
Every time I just look down
There’s a new lie to be found (Every time I just look down)
Every time from underground
Lies are bubblin’ up
—
Ooh, baby (Ooh, baby)
Democracy’s lazy (It’s future now hazy)
Every time I look just down (Every time I just look down)
There’s a new lie to be found
Every time from underground
Lies are bubblin’ up
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The more words the greater the challenge, plus more time for me to say stuff in my musical editorials.
To Billy Joel’s “Piano Man”.
August 7
Neo Fascist Man (song – a GOP anthem)
It’s Doomsday clock on an everyday
GOP wear a watch
They check their wrists – for the end of us
Great experiment to now call a loss
—
They say It’s time has passed can ya follow me
It won’t really be all that hard
There’s a new road to take while the truth we will fake
A dead dream just not in the cards
—
Oh La-la-la de-de da
La-la de-de da la-la
—
Sing us a song Neo Fascist man
Sing us a song of lies
Rewrite for us a seen history
Till no longer believe our own eyes
—
Now the GOP practice a longer game
State and by state they block votes
Or they gerrymander – so to stay in command
As they can’t win with votes honest’s go
They say integrity’s at stake in our system here
Must restore voter confidence
And they’ll disenfranchise with no color the prize
And all because of the Big Lie
—
Oh La-la-la de-de da
La-la de-de da la-la
—
Now McCarthy holds true his great leader
Kool Aid drunk while supporting the cries
Of an unhinged one, carny barker and some
Whose show now attracts nothing but flies
—
And McConnell says partisan politics
Are the only game Dems wanna play
While hypocrisy drips from his marble mouth
Lockstep lemmings minority sway
—
Break
—
Sing us a wrong Neo Fascist man
Sing us a song of lies
Rewrite for us a known history
Till we no longer hear as it cries
—
GOP gambles Dem dreamers
Whose justifies are like some swiss cheese
Manchin and Kyrsten to any who’ll listen
Are standing just notice them please
—
They’re determined to center attention
Nonsensical their fantasy fight
To preserve the one thing that is killing the dream
Of every last of us be deemed
—
Oh La-la-la de-de da
La-la de-de da la-la
—
Do us all wrong Neo Fascist men
Break with democracy’s ties
Cause we’re all in the mood for autocracy
Till we no longer hear our own cries
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For a true nutter.
The Green Acres theme song.
December 8
Greene Crackers
Greene crackers are the treat for me
The favorite snack of the new GOP
Buttered with lies that spread from sea to sea
Keep the truth just give us conspiracies
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Margie Greene crackers is party’s new face
With Gosar, Gohmert & a guy taking girls ‘cross states
Throw in Boebert with a shiny gun case
it’s a GOP wagon to a really dim-lee lit place
—
The lies
White cries
More lies
Past dies
—
Authority life
Hello fascist right
Greene Crackers we are there
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Ok, tacking one on here post posting – like, say, just a fun bonus track.
About cat’s peeing where they shouldn’t.
To Shaggy’s “It Wasn’t Me”.
March 13
It Wasn’t Me, I Didn’t Pee
Yo, Handsome … Open up man
What do you want Cujo?
Mom just caught me
Seriously?
I don’t know how
Where?
In the shower, you know
Man
I don’t know what to do
Well, say it wasn’t you
—
Alright
—
Celie came in and she caught me red handed
Peeing on the shower floor
Picture this, I’m a cat named Cujo
Who doesn’t litter box no more
How could I forget that she lived
On this very big house floor
Just right down the hall here
Till she was standing at the bathroom door
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How could you forget that Mom’s the one who owns this villa
She’s got sixth senses that snap up on her pilla
You keep this up she’s gonna be your killa
She knows it’s you even got ya on camera
Before you were dumb and strolled off into the shower
These humans got tech to catch you any hour
Yeah that’s video your ass up on stovetop
You gotta say it wasn’t you to save you from the next stop
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But she caught me on the counter (It wasn’t me)
Saw me peein’ on the stovetop (I didn’t pee)
Even saw me in corners (It wasn’t me)
Yeah she caught me on camera (I didn’t pee)
Saw scratches on the floorboards (It wasn’t me)
Smelled the smell that made her nose curl (I didn’t pee)
Heard her screams when she discovered (It wasn’t me)
I couldn’t stay so I took off
—
Celie came in and she caught me red handed
Peeing on the shower floor
Picture this, I’m a cat named Cujo
Who doesn’t litter box no more
How could I forget that she lived
On this very big house floor
Just right down the hall here
Till she was standing at the bathroom door
—
Act like nothing happened, that it’s no big deal
Walk your Cujo walk, denial in your cool
See if you can sing another cat’s fault song
Maybe Sunny with who you don’t get along
You’re gonna be banished from house for real
You’ll be pushin’ daisies soon for just this deal
You’ll be out garage, house life won’t last
Get caught again and 9th life will pass
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But she caught me on the counter (It wasn’t me)
Saw me peein’ on the stovetop (I didn’t pee)
Even saw me in corners (It wasn’t me)
Yeah she caught me on camera (I didn’t pee)
Saw scratches on the floorboards (It wasn’t me)
Smelled the smell that made her nose curl (I didn’t pee)
I heard the screams when she discovered (It wasn’t me)
I couldn’t stay so I took off
—
Celie came in and she caught me red handed
Peeing on the shower floor
Picture this, I’m a cat named Cujo
Who doesn’t litter box no more
How could I forget that she lived
On this very big house floor
Just right down the hall here
Till she was standing at the bathroom door
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Gonna blame some other
For the smell that I’ve caused
Gotta be some other cat who goes and pees against doors
I will tell her that maybe it’s because of the dogs
I’ll just make sure they don’t catch me
When they figure mad cause
—
Celie came in and she caught me red handed
Peeing on the shower floor
Picture this, I’m a cat named Cujo
Who doesn’t litter box no more
How could I forget that she lived
On this very big house floor
Just right down the hall here
Till she was standing at the bathroom door
—
Celie came in
She caught me red handed
It wasn’t me I do say
I didn’t pee I will say
Celie came in then
She caught me red handed
It wasn’t me
Meow
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